September 26th, 2009 @ Kathy // No Comments
Let’s talk about sherbets and champagnes and champagne sherbets. You’ve noticed that there seem to be a zillion names for different shapes of goblets – wines, waters, goblets, ice tea, so on – and you’ve probably seen several shapes called “sherbets”. A sherbet is basically something to hold a small dish of ice cream, or [...]
Category : Vintage Stemware & Goblets
September 19th, 2009 @ Kathy // No Comments
The next time you have a party and are searching for a plate you can use for all the cookies or little crackers with cheese, you’ll be glad you have this large etched crystal torte plate. Yes, this is a bit fancier than the plastic nosh trays from the Walmart deli. It’s something your friends [...]
Category : Cake Plates and Serving Platters
August 16th, 2009 @ Kathy // No Comments
Reason #8 – Family Memories. Whether the piece came from your family or someone else’s, there’s something about things to remind you of home and make you feel good. This is one of the Swanky Swigs, the little glasses that you could buy cheese in that almost every family used for juice in the 1950s. [...]
Category : Vintage Tumblers & Swanky Swigs
August 13th, 2009 @ Kathy // No Comments
Do you like high quality, unique design, graceful shapes? And would you like your stemware and glasses to be these things? Yes, I would too! Reason #9 is: You can find vintage glass that is higher quality at affordable prices that is unique, stylish and yes, stemware you can use and enjoy on your table! [...]
Category : Vintage Stemware & Goblets
April 24th, 2009 @ Kathy // No Comments
A couple posts ago we showed one of my favorite things, elegant depression glass console bowls. Here’s another type of glass that is equally entrancing, the center handled sandwich server, also called center handled tray, center handled server or CHS. Regardless what you call it, this is one of the signature pieces of the depression [...]
Category : Glass Pieces
April 5th, 2009 @ Kathy // No Comments
Today let’s do something different and look at this interesting older cake plate and see why it is such a neat piece to use today. This cake plate is frosted clear glass and quite heavy, about 4 pounds. It has three small tab feet on the base and is about 3/4 inches tall and 11 [...]
Category : Cake Plates and Serving Platters
April 1st, 2009 @ Kathy // No Comments
Central Glass Balda Etched Green Console Bowl Rather than look at a pattern, let’s talk about one of my favorite things, etched console bowls. My three favorite pieces of glass are the console bowls, etched candle holders and center handled sandwich trays. All three are characteristic of the depression era and all three are beautiful! [...]
Category : Console & Serving Bowls
March 22nd, 2009 @ Kathy // No Comments
This is one of my favorite things, a small decorated tumbler. It is in the same style as the Swanky Swigs, same size and shape, but I’ve not seen this particular design in the swig listings in my reference books. This little glass almost certainly originally held cheese or whatever and is cute as can [...]
Category : Vintage Tumblers & Swanky Swigs
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