Featured is a wonderful Whimsy Novelty Glass Telephone Candy Container.
- George West President of the Westmoreland Glass Company became involved in the candy container industry in 1906.
- Some of his designs included trunks, suitcases, clocks, and horns.
- Candy containers were often decorated with paint and sold as souvenirs.
- The containers were labor intensive because each piece was hand blown into a single mold.
- Many other glass companies produced candy containers; Victory Glass Company, L.E. Smith, and Cambridge Glass.
- By 1940, the candy container began to disappear from the market.
- Today, some containers are exceptionally rare and can bring astonishingly high prices, in the thousands of dollar range.
