April 11th, 2011 @ Kathy // One Comment
It’s our newest video for Antiquing with Your Best Friend. We went to the local antique mall and found some lovely pieces and some not so lovely. Come watch with us as we shop for elegant and depression glass! If you are reading this via email subscription here is the link for you: Antiquing with [...]
Category : Antiquing Together
January 3rd, 2011 @ Kathy // No Comments
Do you like cheese and crackers? Or dip and veggies? Here’s a neat way to combine your love of vintage with your yummy snacking. Elegant glass makers made sets of a medium plate and a small stemmed comport that are meant for cheese and crackers. You put your cheese ball or soft cheese spread in [...]
Category : How to Enjoy Your Glass
November 20th, 2010 @ Kathy // No Comments
It’s just like high school. There are the belles of the ball, Mayfair, Cameo, American Sweetheart and Sharon. There are popular kids, Floral, Georgian, Petalware. Then there are the neglected ones, the ones that are charming and pretty, that just don’t have a big fan base, like Stippled Rose or S Pattern depression glass. Stippled [...]
Category : MacBeth Evans Depression Glass
September 2nd, 2010 @ Kathy // No Comments
Fall is coming and that means red and gold leaves, fires in the fire place and family get togethers, One way to create memories and add sparkle to your fall family tables is with vintage relish trays and what better one than this topaz gold colored Baroque tray from Fostoria Glass? Relish trays have gotten [...]
Category : Vintage Relish Trays
April 14th, 2010 @ Kathy // 13 Comments
Thank you for visiting us today for a lunch full of sunshine. We’re going to have fun using Patrician amber depression glass for our menu of omelets, toast, strawberries and coffee. Doesn’t that sound good? See what I mean about sunshine? The amber color glows and it looks good on the white tablecloth with a shadow [...]
Category : Tablescapes
April 3rd, 2010 @ Kathy // 9 Comments
Once upon a time you could find real Madrid depression glass at every flea market, antique mall and thrift store. Those days are behind us. I found the cake plate and tumbler in pink Recollection reproduction glass this winter at an antique store and a few more pieces when antiquing in San Antonio a few [...]
Category : Depression Glass Guide / Reproductions and Fakes
December 19th, 2009 @ Kathy // No Comments
Isn’t this pretty with the band of stylized flowers and trailing leaf swags? This pattern is S Pattern, called Stippled Rose, and MacBeth Evans made it from 1930 to 1933. From what I’ve read, collectors sought this glassware when depression glass collecting first became popular, but it is not so well-known today. Like most [...]
Category : Depression Glass Guide
November 24th, 2009 @ Kathy // No Comments
Years ago glass makers produced two part ensembles to use for cheese and crackers. The bottom plate was big enough to hold many crackers and one put a cheese ball or spread in the raised center comport piece. Thus, a cheese and cracker set. The one we show here is from Cambridge Glass, their etch [...]
Category : Cake Plates and Serving Platters
October 20th, 2009 @ Kathy // 2 Comments
Doesn’t the name Normandie sound fancy? I did some research to write this post because I thought the name may have been drawn from the famous French ocean liner Normandie, however the vessel was launched in 1935, after the depression pattern production start. For many years this pattern was called Bouquet and Lattice for its [...]
Category : Federal Depression Glass
October 2nd, 2009 @ Kathy // No Comments
Fall hit with a vengeance today – it’s cold, dreary and wet – and these are the days that turn our minds to fires flickering in the fire place, warm colors, friends, apple cider. Amber colored glass fits right in here and looking at this bowl cheers me up! This particular piece is Fostoria Glass [...]
Category : Fostoria Glass
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