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Antique Glass ArticlesA Carnival Glass Primer Yes, Dorothy, they really DID give them away at carnivals. The term "Carnival" applies to pressed & iridized glass manufactured in various countries between about 1905 and 1930, utilizing a "spray" or "dip and swirl" combination of chemicals, prior to firing, to provide a cheap but beautiful alternative to the "art glass" of the times. Read More... Collecting Depression Glass Okay, so you’ve been bitten by the Depression Glass bug, and those pretty patterns and pastel colors beckon you from the shelves of an antique dealer’s shop, a friend’s home, or maybe you’ve even discovered this special glassware on the Internet. Read More... Crackle Glass GLASS: The third most popular collectible in the world, preceded only by coins and stamps. We feel CRACKLE GLASS is the most beautiful. Have you ever seen CRACKLE GLASS in a window when the sun reflects off the glass? A window decorated with different colored crackle are truly breathtaking. Read More... Paperweights, A Beautiful Investment The story of the glass paperweight begins in 1845--little more than fifty years after a mob beheaded Louis XVI and proclaimed France a republic. In this year the great glasshouses of France began to produce pieces of crystal that would permanently impact the history of glass art. Read More... American Purple Slag Glass Purple slag came to the United States from England in the 1880s, probably brought by immigrant glassmen or by Americans returning home from apprenticing there. This variegated glass was as popular here as with the English, coming at a time when the demand for decorative colored glass was high. Read More... Depression Glass Companies Just before the advent of the Great Depression, more than a hundred companies manufactured glassware in the United States. At the end of the Depression, fewer than fifty percent of these companies remained in business. Of these companies, seven became major players in the production of Depression glass, and these seven companies utilized a little more than 90 patterns to decorate their wares. Read More... Rare Depression Glass Pieces Did you know that if you happen to have a crystal (clear) and pink Depression Glass refrigerator bowl in the Crisscross pattern in good condition and with its original cover, that it’s valued at between $300 and $335? Or that Shirley Temple cream pitcher your grandmother keeps in the back of her upper cabinet could bring up to $1,250 at auction? Read More... Goofus Glass It is accepted by most perhaps starting as early as 1897 and during a period possibly not exceeding 20 years +/-, that there were multitudes of different glass objects which were produced with various molded patterns and then decorated crudely using early paint spray devices using predominantly gold paint. Read More... A Pattern Glass Revival Though prices/sales during the past year on most antiques have somewhat softened on the Internet's chief market, the online auctions, one notable exception is Early American Pattern Glass, usually shortened to EAPG or simply pattern glass. Surprisingly, the percentage of sales and selling prices for pattern glass have steadily increased on eBay, the colossus of online auctions. Read More... Early American Pattern Glass Early American Pattern Glass began about 1826 at the Sandwich (MA) Glass Works when Deming Jarves developed a mechanical glass press that could produce glass tableware in quantity and quality at a lower cost rather than being mouth blown piece by piece. Read More... United
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