November 6th, 2011 @ Kathy // One Comment
Do you like vintage stemware? I do! And I like to identify what I have. If you have Fostoria stemware this book is a must. Milbra Long and Emily Seate are a mother/daughter team that are consummate experts in Fostoria glass. They have written several guide books divided by era and type of glass. This book covers [...]
Category : Tips to Identify Glass
July 27th, 2011 @ Kathy // No Comments
Sometimes it’s hard to know what glass you have. Fostoria marked very few of their pieces so unless you recognize the shape or the cutting or the etch it’s going to be difficult to identify the glass pattern. I thought it would be helpful to have a good photo identification guide online that showed all [...]
Category : Tips to Identify Glass
May 10th, 2011 @ Kathy // No Comments
If you collect glass you probably have a piece or three that you never were able to identify. These dratted pieces linger on the shelf and wave at you when you walk by. I can hear them taunting me. “Who made me? Don’t YOU want to know?!? What’s MY name? Nyah nyah Nyah.” (OK, I [...]
Category : Tips to Identify Glass
March 3rd, 2011 @ Kathy // One Comment
Whether you collect glass or just enjoy buying a piece from time to time, it’s more fun when you have an idea what you are buying. It can also save you a few headaches to have some knowledge about collectible glass and you may save yourself some money too. The Georgian tumbler photographed above is [...]
Category : Tips to Identify Glass
January 27th, 2011 @ Kathy // No Comments
Isn’t this a pretty etched sherbet? I liked the basket and swag etch a lot and bought it without any idea what pattern it is. I had this for a couple years and went through all my books, looked online in all the places I could searching for “basket” and “basket etched sherbet”. This is [...]
Category : Tips to Identify Glass
August 19th, 2010 @ Kathy // 4 Comments
Do you enjoy detective stories? This isn’t a whodunit with dead bodies or great bank heists, but a safe quiet hunt to identify exactly what this goblet is. My grandma had a set of red tumblers that had honeycombs on the side that I always liked. Years later I found that honeycomb pattern is Georgian. [...]
Category : Tips to Identify Glass
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