Posted 3 weeks, 1 day ago @ Kathy // No Comments
Do you have someone hard to shop for on your Christmas list? Is your mother-in-law a little picky about what she puts in her house? You won’t go wrong with a gift in perfect taste that is beautiful, functional and will create warm memories. Vintage glass candy dishes like the Cambridge Rose Point bowl shown [...]
Category : Gift Buying Guide - Collectible Glass
Posted 3 weeks, 2 days ago @ Kathy // 9 Comments
Today we have a small table setting with just a few pieces of elegant glass. The plates are cut crystal from Seneca Glass and the etched water goblets are from Cambridge and the combination makes a pretty luncheon table. Can you imagine a glass of white wine served with crystal plates full of salad with [...]
Category : Elegant Glass Tables
July 30th, 2010 @ Kathy // 2 Comments
Quick! What do you call those little plates that go on the left just above your fork? Bread and butter plates, right? If you have china dinnerware, then yes, bread and butter plates. If you have glass, then no. This is a sherbet plate or sherbet liner. Yes, it looks like a bread and butter [...]
Category : Pink Elegant Glass
July 29th, 2010 @ Kathy // No Comments
Earlier blog post I told the story of the older couple who sold me their Cameo depression glass because “their daughters didn’t want it”. The couple never used the glass so no one had memories tied up in it. I have this glass now and will list it for sale so someone else can treasure [...]
Category : How to Enjoy Your Glass
May 16th, 2010 @ Kathy // No Comments
If you’re like me you wonder why glass companies would have sold special pieces just for iced tea. Do people drink enough iced tea to warrant a special stem? And why isn’t there a special glass for sodas or lemonade? Elegant glass companies made their beautiful vintage stemware long before soda became a daily drink. [...]
Category : Cambridge Glass
March 24th, 2010 @ Kathy // One Comment
Rose Point is special to me. My mom and dad got a few pieces for wedding gifts but didn’t have enough to use and this sat in their buffet cupboard for many years. When I started working with glass in 1999 I found their pieces and was so surprised they had such pretty glass they [...]
Category : Cambridge Glass
January 31st, 2010 @ Kathy // No Comments
Welcome to Book Report Sunday. Tonight is my favorite reference book for elegant glass, Elegant Glass: Early, Depression, & Beyond by Coe & Coe. Elegant glass is “good glass”, the sort that people bought at jewelry and high end department stores, by makers like Fostoria, Cambridge, Heisey. It took skilled artisans to produce this glassware [...]
Category : Elegant Glass
January 19th, 2010 @ Kathy // 2 Comments
Recently Bill of Affordable Accoutrements, who writes the most enjoyable blog posts about his imaginative tablescapes, mentioned that he prefers elegant glass to depression glass. That got me thinking. Which do you prefer? Which do I prefer? For me it’s not as easy a choice as it once was. When I first started with glass [...]
Category : Elegant Glass
December 5th, 2009 @ Kathy // No Comments
Isn’t this a pretty thing? It’s even nicer in person. This light pink amethyst color is called Heatherbloom and what makes this so interesting is that the glass changes color slightly under different lighting. With normal light it is a lovely rose amethyst orchid color like the picture. Under fluorescent light it is more lavender [...]
Category : Cambridge Glass
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
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