pre-Pro Shot Glass: "Hotel Astor"

Original artwork and Greeting cards
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HOTEL ASTOR Text appears etched into a ribbon design below a shield embellished with a flower. A characteristic thistle design that appears on all of the Hotel's dinnerware runs around the wall of the glass at the fill line.
	ID#: RRP5124

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Glass Category:	Hotel
Glass Type:	Thick-walled pressed glass, 13 flutes around base
Label Type:	Needle etched
Dimensions:	2-3/8" x 2-1/8" x 1-1/2"
Edmonson:	Not listed
State:	NY
City:	New York


Notes:
The same logo etched into the glass appeared on hotel china, including dinner plates. Hotel Astor was a hotel on Times Square in the Midtown Manhattan neighborhood of New York City. Built in 1905 and expanded in 1909 to 1910 for the Astor family, the hotel occupied a site bounded by Broadway, Shubert Alley, and 44th and 45th Streets. Architects Clinton & Russell designed the hotel as an 11-story Beaux-Arts edifice with a mansard roof. It contained 1,000 guest rooms, with two more levels underground for its extensive "backstage" functions, such as the wine cellar. The building was razed in 1967 to make way for the high-rise office tower One Astor Plaza (for more detail, see (a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hotel_Astor_(New_York_City)">Wikipedia).







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