Question:
I have two tall Chartreuse quartette salt shakers, one has three holes and the other has five. Is that right?

Answer: A photo would certainly help here. Something in your description doesn’t fit. Quartette is a pattern in the Concord shape. Each of the 17 Concord salt shakers (the taller of the pair) in our collection has nine holes; eight holes in a circle around one hole at the top.

Perhaps your shakers are in the Town & Country shape rather than Concord. In 1951 Red Wing introduced Informal Supper Service. This line consists of Town & Country pieces decorated in the the four colors from the Quartette pattern rather than the standard Town & Country colors. Quartette Chartreuse is one of the four colors. A set of Informal Supper Service salt and pepper shakers consists of two large Town & Country salt shakers, one with 3 holes and the other with 5 holes. This seems to fit your description.

Larry