H1. Single large heart in center background of concentric circles. Fourteen clear glass hearts in border.

H2. The Valentine. Two hearts in center pierced with arrows, small flowers on stippled background, lyres in border.

H3. Four interlaced hearts in center, nine hearts in border with sheaf of wheat between.

H4. Same as No. 3 with variation in wheat and three stipples above.

H5. Ten sided edge serrated, thirteen stippled hearts in border, geometrical center with stipple background.

H6. Twelve sided edge, thirteen stippled hearts in border, center like No. 5, no serrations.

H7. Thirteen stippled hearts in border, center like No. 5.

H8. Same as No. 7 with twelve stippled hearts in border, two lobes of center design also stippled.

H9. Same as No. 8 with two stars between each heart, center like No. 6.

H10. Same as No. 7 larger size cup plate.

H11. Larger plate type of No. 8 with four lobes of center design clear.

H12. Small plate (size of bee hive) six hearts forming center with wheel of dew drops between, edge has bull’s eye in each serration. Hearts are very heavily stippled in waffle design.

H13. Fourteen stippled heart border with fourteen five pointed stars in diamonds super imposed on hearts in border, center peacock feather design with star in each bull’s eye.

H14. Twelve sided flower border serrated edge, small stipple triangle in center, three small hearts in feathered scrolls.

H15. Thirteen stippled hearts in border slightly larger cup plate than No. 7, background of center clear.

H16. Fourteen rope stippled hearts in border, eight pointed conventional star in center within a pointed larger star.

H17. Four clear heart center forming clover leaf design, stippled background, border twelve hearts reversed stippling.

H18. Same center, as No. 17, no stipple in center but plain border made up of stippling.

H19. Same center as No. 17, no stippling in either hearts or background, no hearts in border.

H20. Twelve sided serrated edge, twelve stippled hearts in border with drop ornaments between them. Center design of four motives, rosettes and stippling.

H21. Six hearts “Waffle Design,” in outer circle of center with rosettes between them; large six pointed star with rosette in center, clear ground, vine and wheat border New England Glass Works type. A companion plate to No. 16.

H22. Eight hearts in center, four with leaves and four stippled, wreath border.

Previously not much attention has been paid to the Heart Series by collectors. These are of rare beauty when gathered in sequence. They were among the most popular plates of the time. They were called the Sentiment or Valentine cup plates and were more often given as tokens of regard than any other designs.

Colored cup plates were issued in smaller numbers but were not found practical because of the expense connected with their manufacture. Many people considered them not in good taste for table use but the opalescent conventional plates were more popular. These have necessarily become rare and the collector who goes in for colored plates to any extent has a hard undertaking to make his series complete. A conventional plate popularly called “The Wheel of Fortune” seems to have been made in lovely shades of lavender, green, amber, mauve, and blue.

Tints or “off-shades” are much sought after by collectors in cup plates. These color variations were produced by the chemical reaction of an over-dose of one of the ingredients in the mixture—a “mistake” in composition.

Of the hundreds of conventional designs we have tried to illustrate only a few of the unusual and particularly lacy ones.

The author illustrates 78 different cup plates, trusting that the reader will appreciate the effort made.