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Ricky and Lucy visit the Littlefields

A visit to the Littlefields on I Love Lucy

In the I Love Lucy, Season 1, Episode entitled Lucy’s Schedule the Ricardo arrive  an hour late for dinner at the Littlefields due to Lucy putting the clock back instead of forward.  Mr Littlefield values punctuality so dinner is over by the time they arrive.

Gale Gordon as Mr Littlefield, Ricky’s new boss

In this episode Gale Gordon makes his appearance  on the show as Mr Littlefield. We first see him seen reading an issue The American Weekly magazine dated May 25, 1952.

Lucy eats after dinner mints

Ricky and Lucy have missed dinner so when Mrs Littlefield offers Lucy after dinner mints she is so hungry she takes all of them to hillarious effect. The glass dish is a Fostoria ‘American’ Compote Candy Dish which we looked at in a different scene previously.

Moments later Lucy spots the bowl of wax fruit and another hilarious scene ensues when Lucy bites into a wax apple

Lucy vs the wax apple
1950’s wax fruit on eBay

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Lucy’s Glass Candy Dish

Lucy serves peanuts in her glass footed dish
Lucy serves peanuts in her glass footed dish

In the screen capture above from the “Lucy and Superman” episode Lucy is sharing peanuts from her pedestal glass compote/candy dish. Lucy’s dish looks like the FostoriaAmerican’ Compote Candy Dish which can also be found with a matching lid.  Hand washing is recommended it is not dishwasher safe.
Pictured below is an example of the Fostoria footed glass candy dish in the “American” pattern currrently on eBay HERE.

Fostoria-American-Compote-Candy-Dish
Fostoria American Compote Candy Dish

Fostoria’s “ice-cube” style American pattern, line 2056 is pressed glass (which you can tell from the seams in the glass) not cut crystal: The color called “Crystal” means clear glass, not lead crystal and does not give an indication of lead content.  According to this article American pressed glass made after the Civil War does not contain lead. [If you are concerned about lead content and wish use  a  vintage  bowl to hold dry food such as peanuts or unwrapped candy, line the class first with transparent plastic – cut a rounded corner from a plastic food bag to make a funnel large enough to fit the bowl place into the bowl before adding the food]

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Ethel munches on peanuts from Lucy’s footed glass dish

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Fostoria Ad 1949
Fostoria Ad 1949