Unusual Friendship

[Doug D.]

Probably more to do with a new pattern and lead time, but here's a shot of Friendship from an early 1972 catalog. What's wrong with this picture?

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[Bonnie Scott]

The promotional casserole is missing the plate?

[Doug D.]

The photo is Friendship, not Penn Dutch.

[Bonnie Scott]

Isn't Penn Dutch the promotional "go with" for Friendship?

[Doug D.]

It preceded Friendship, but the 475 for Friendship is not the same. The photo uses a PD dish as a Friendship. The promo also had the more densely decorated opal lid. This same mismatch is in the display at the Rakow library Pyrex exhibit.

[Bonnie Scott]

The Friendship pattern and the Penn Dutch pattern are both obviously inspired by the Pennsylvania Dutch hex sign for Friendship so I think of them all as one set.

[Bonnie Scott]

If 1972 was the year they switched to the Opal lid wouldn't it make sense that an early 1972 picture would still show the clear lid?

[Doug D.]

The change was apparently not exactly coincidental with the new year. Penn Dutch's lid was decorated opal on a Cinderella round casserole before Friendship debuted with its decorated clear lids on them. But the clear lids must not have been around for very long; you don't see that many with them. The June 1972 catalog shows them with opal lids. And an apparently not PD 475 dish.

[Bonnie Scott]

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[Bonnie Scott]

It looks suspicious to me. There is a lot of variation in the color and I think I might be seeing brush strokes?