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Chase "Gaiety" Cocktail Shaker by Reichenbach with Etched Prairie-Style Bar Set
A complete seven-piece cocktail service anchored by Howard F. Reichenbach's "Gaiety" shaker for Chase Brass & Copper Co., paired with an etched glass martini pitcher and five matching tulip-bowl stems whose linear motifs echo the shaker's machine-age geometry. The Chase piece is the centerpiece — chrome-plated cylindrical body with ribbed banding at shoulder and base, mirror-polished midsection, and the original ribbed ivory Catalin pour cap, marked to the underside PAT. D-95925 beneath the firm's centaur archer trademark. That patent number ties to Reichenbach's 1935 design registration, one of the cornerstone offerings of Chase's Specialty Sales Division — the consumer arm launched in 1930 under Rodney Chase to bring Bauhaus-influenced industrial design into Depression-era American homes at accessible price points, the same catalog where Walter von Nessen, Russel Wright, and Lurelle Guild were working in parallel.
The accompanying glass — pitcher with applied handle and pinched spout, plus five tulip-bowl stems — carries a stylized linear etching of elongated columnar forms terminating in stepped Greek-key brackets, vocabulary drawn from the Prairie School and Wiener Werkstätte filtering into American etched stemware through the late 1920s and 1930s. The pairing reads as a deliberately curated period bar service rather than a married lot: shared geometry, shared era, shared sensibility.
CONDITION
Good overall. The Chase shaker shows surface scratches and patina from period use as visible in the supplemental images, with light haze to the chrome interior. The pitcher exhibits cloudy interior etching consistent with dishwasher exposure; the five stems present clean with no chips noted.
DIMENSIONS / SPECIFICATIONS
- Shaker: 12" H × 3.5" Diameter
- Pitcher (with spout & handle): 10" H × 4.5" W × 7" D
- Stems: 6.25" H each (set of 5)
- Shaker Marked: PAT. D-95925 / Chase USA (centaur archer logo)
- Designer: Howard F. Reichenbach, "Gaiety" pattern, design patent filed 1935
- Maker: Chase Brass & Copper Co., Waterbury, Connecticut
- Cap Material: Ribbed ivory Catalin (early phenolic resin)
- Campbell's Soup Can (4" H) Shown for Scale
