Thank you for letting me share our blue rose table with you. Thank you to Susan from Between Naps on the Porch and friends for this fun Tablescape Thursday. Today we’re having dinner on Concord Rose china from Syracuse.

Concord Rose Dinnerware Syracuse China

Think blue roses and you have this contemporary dinnerware.   It’s durable and has a pretty design of long stemmed blue roses.

Concord Rose Sugar Bowl

But it needs to be dressed up, don’t you think?  How about adding a dash of blue?  Cobalt blue depression glass adds that spot of color we need.  This Moderntone cobalt blue depression glass sherbet looks great on the plate and we’ll have fun using this for our fruit salad.

Concord Rose and Moderntone

Let’s take a closer look.  I like this combination.  It changes my plain table from boring to fabulous.

Moderntone Blue Sherbet Concord Rose Plate

Concord Rose with Moderntone

The glasses were using are interesting.  When we think of Anchor Hocking we think of quality glass for daily use, not cut or fancy, but sturdy and well made.  I found a set of eight tumblers marked Anchor Hocking at the flea market that have a fuchsia cutting.  Unusual.

Anchor Hocking Cut Tumbler

It’s hard to see the cutting and it’s worth seeing.

Anchor Hocking Fuchsia Cut Tumbler

I hope you enjoyed seeing a different sort of table today.  This time I combined Concord Rose dinnerware from Syracuse China, Moderntone blue depression glass sherbets, fuchsia cut tumblers from Anchor Hocking and a Fostoria Navarre etched candle holder.

Let me know how you mix depression glass in  your home.  You are welcome to post photos of your glass on our Facebook page at www.DepressionGlassFun.com.

Buying information:  All glass and china is available at our online store Cat Lady Kate’s Elegant and Depression Glass at www.CatladykatesGlass.com.  It’s like antiquing with your best friend.

Hocking Colonial Knife & Fork Clear Depression Glass Wine

We’ve looked at a lot of colored glass – blue, pink, green depression and elegant etched Fostoria – and I thought it would be a fun change to see some clear depression glass.

One conundrum is what to call this stuff.  My depression glass reference books by Gene Florence call colorless glass “crystal” but as a dealer I found that confused my customers.  Some see the word “crystal” and visualize the gorgeous quality lead crystal.  Ummm, nope, sorry.  This is depression glass so it’s decent quality but very far from high end lead crystal.  (Let’s not even talk about the confusion with the clear Waterford Waffle pattern.)

So I’ve taken to calling it “clear”.  This is what Replacements.com does too so I’m in good company.

The small stem you see here is the Colonial pattern from Hocking Glass.  It’s typical depression glass with a molded pattern and ordinary glass.  You may recognize the nickname Knife and Fork, which refers to the ridged design between the scallops.  Hocking made this pattern in green and pink, some yellow, some opaque white, a little blue and of course in clear.

The clear is not as enticing as the colored glass but it has its own charm.  For one thing it plays well with other colors and helps if you want to merge multiple colors.  Putting a few pieces of clear along with green and pink really helps.  For another the clear is much less expensive – true for almost all patterns – and you can add a few pieces to use every day without breaking the bank.  For another, colored depression stemware is getting harder to find.  Naturally stemware and tumblers took a beating over the past 80 years so when you can find clear stems to augment your depression set, go for it.

Buying information:  All glass shown is available at Cat Lady Kate’s Elegant and Depression Glass.

Old Cafe Pink Depression Glass Candy Dish

Welcome to this week’s Pink Saturday hosted by Beverly of How Sweet the Sound.  Thank you for visiting me.

Today we have pink depression glass stealing the show.  This is the two-handled dish for candy or mints in Hocking’s Old Cafe pattern.  Old Cafe is a small pattern with only a few dinnerware pieces but several attractive accessory items like this candy plate, a deeper candy bowl with lid, an oval olive dish and a vase.

You’ve probably seen look-a-likes for the vase, not exactly repros but more an extended production of this for the floral market.  The design is a wide band between two narrower bands and all the bands are smooth on the inside and rounded on the outside.

Hocking made this depression glassware pattern in pink and clear and it is surprisingly attractive.  You wouldn’t think such a simple design would be so effective but like most of the geometric designed depression patterns Old Cafe has little extras.  You can see one on this candy dish.  The ribs that make up the pattern come together on the base to make a ridged bottom.  It looks great.

Buying information:  We have this piece and several others in our store Cat Lady Kate’s Elegant and Depression Glass at www.CatladykatesGlass.com.

Princess Green Depression Glass 9 Deep Hat Bowl

Since St. Patrick’s Day is right around the corner so let’s look at a few green items.  This is one of my favorite green depression glass patterns, Princess by Hocking Glass.  I have a large selection in pink but have to admit I prefer green to the pink.  Hocking’s green in this pattern is just a tad lighter color, a little fresher than the usual green.

I like the way the scroll designs on this pattern look like curtains sweeping away on a stage.  It makes me feel like I’m at the theater waiting for the curtain to go up and the play to begin.

Most of the Princess pieces are octagonal, really squares with the corners cut off, and this bowl is round at the top and octagonal at the base.  It is called the 9 inch deep hat-shaped bowl.  It is 9 inches across and almost 4 inches deep and it looks deeper than it is.  A bowl of this style would be great for a pasta salad, especially one with some green peppers or green rotini in it

If you like Princess depression glass be sure to check out our store Cat Lady Kate’s Elegant and Depression Glass.  It’s like antiquing with your best friend.

Thank you for letting me share our blue depression glass table with you.  Thank you to Susan from Between Naps on the Porch and friends for this fun Tablescape Thursday.

Moderntone Cobalt Blue Depression Glass Table for Two

Today we’re having lunch for two and enjoying the first daffodils of the year.  Don’t the flowers add a touch of spring?  Daffodils are my favorite but they won’t bloom outdoors here until April.

Dave Eickholt Crystalline Glaze Green & Blue Vases

It’s sunny outside – blue skies and a warm breeze (warmish anyway) – so let’s celebrate a good day for blue.  We have blue glass plates, sherbets, cups and saucers and a deep blue crystalline glaze vase from artist Dave Eickholt.  The cheerful yellow flowers look great in Dave’s green art vase.

Moderntone Blue Depression Glass Setting

Moderntone is depression glass. Hazel Atlas made this from 1934 to 1942 in cobalt blue and some amethyst purple and that’s the color people collect the most. They knew they had a good thing going and re-issued this pattern in the early 1950s in a white glass they called Platonite that had overlays of bright colors. I like the transparent blue the best. Doesn’t it look good on the white hand-crocheted doily tablecloth?

Moderntone Depression Glass Table

I try to keep Moderntone in stock in our store Vintage Elegant Depression Glass by Catladykate and at the moment we have the pieces shown in the photo.  Here is a close up of the sherbet so you can see it better.

Moderntone Cobalt Blue Depression Glass Sherbet

Can you see the art deco influence here with the round and square shapes mixed?

Moderntone Cobalt Blue Depression Glass Sugar

I love flowers so when I saw the daffodils grocery shopping it was easy to pick a bunch.  The yellow is pretty bright with the cobalt blue,  I think next time we decide to show off blue I’ll get pink flowers or pick soft apricot colored pansies.

The smaller vase is a great combination of cooler navy colors in a crystalline glaze, also by noted artist Dave Eickholt.   It’s fun to mix these art pieces with my depression glass – quite a contrast that works.  The dark blue vase helps tone down the bright flowers and you can see how well it melds with the green vase and the cobalt glass.

Dave Eickholt Blue Crystalline Glaze Vase

Thanks for visiting.

Buying Guide: Moderntone cobalt blue depression glass is available at Catladykate – it’s like antiquing with  your best friend.

Crystalline glazed pottery is available at Dave Eickholt’s shop.

Sharon Cabbage Rose Pink Depression Glass Dinner Plate

It’s time for Pink Saturday with Beverly from How Sweet the Sound and her other guests, just in time to reward us for finishing another week. Pink Sharon depression glass is the star today.

Sharon is depression glass, which means it was mass produced during the 1930s and sold cheaply or given away as premiums with food or at the movie theater.  Even though we believe most depression glass was cheap – since so much was free for purchasing a product – it actually was not all that inexpensive given the overall lack of extra money.  For example, a family could send in coupons to get a whole set of glass to go with that free piece for a couple dollars, but that $2-3 represented several days wages.  Imagine today spending half your weekly paycheck on dishes.

What this means is that some patterns have pieces that are hard to find compared to others.  Bowls and tumblers are scarce in most patterns – you can understand tumblers because that is what we all break even today – but bowls?  Think about your dinnerware.  Most likely you had to buy bowls separately for your tableware and the same thing was true with depression glass.

With Sharon one of the eye-opening pieces is the salad plate, which is about 7 1/2 inches wide.  This small size plate is perfect for dessert, lunch or salad.  It runs about double the price of the dinner plate.

Federal Glass made Sharon from 1935 to 1939 in pink, amber and green and a few pieces of clear.  It has a beautiful design of big rose sprays and smaller bouquets on the rim.  It’s a pretty pattern.

If you like this, please check our pieces listed in our online store Cat Lady Kate’s Elegant and Depression Glass.  We have a good selection with more to list.  We specialize in certain patterns of depression glass, including Sharon Cabbage Rose, and elegant glass from Fostoria, Cambridge and Central.  Come see us today for best selection.

Princess Pink Depression Glass Sherbet

Thank you to Beverly from How Sweet the Sound for hosting Pink Saturday.  What a perfect color for cheerful thoughts of spring.

Up today is our Princess.  This is pink depression glass from Hocking, made about 1931 to 1935 when the country was deep in the Great Depression.  Pink glassware – and blue, amber, green and amethyst – was given away as premiums or offered with coupons.  It was a good way for the thrifty housewife to get something beautiful for her family while saving money.

Today we can tell the pieces in patterns that were not popular premiums and those that ladies needed to send in hard-to-find cash to get.  Those are the pieces that are more expensive or harder to find.  Sherbets are fairly common in most depression glass patterns but not so readily available in pink Princess.

Sherbets are fun pieces.  You can use them for a fruit cup, to serve applesauce, yogurt or cottage cheese, fill them with berries, custard and cream, use them for cake with lemon sauce and even use them for sherbet.

Pink isn’t just for Saturday.  And pink depression glass is a fun way to enjoy pink, beautiful glass, and a link to our history.

We have a good selection of pink Princess in our store Cat Lady Kate’s Elegant and Depression Glass and offer coupons to our blog and newsletter subscribers.  Just use coupon news when you check out.

Dogwood Pink Depression Glass Tumbler

It’s cold outside and spring seems such a long time away.  Let’s cheer ourselves up with a few days of pink.  Pink isn’t just for Valentine’s Day any more.

Today I’m showing off one of our rare pieces of depression glass, the water tumbler in Dogwood depression glass from MacBeth Evans.  Tumblers are always among the more scarce pieces in vintage glassware patterns and Dogwood is no exception.  This one has the design screened on – not flat paint but a raised knobby like decoration.  It’s very pretty and this 12 ounce size is even harder to find than others.

If you like flowers you recognize the four petals as being Dogwood but for some reason this pattern is nicknamed Appleblossom.  Apple blossoms have five petals.  Maybe it’s because the design is just so pretty and feels like spring.

We have a good selection of Dogwood pink depression glass.  I was able to get several pieces from a dealer who was closing down and almost everything is in great shape.  As time passes it’s getting harder to find depression glass in such good shape, so come check us out.

Petal Swirl Pink Depression Glass Salad Bowl

Now here is a pink depression glass pattern that is easy on the eyes, easy to collect and easy to enjoy.  The pattern is Swirl, called Petal Swirl by Jeannette Glass.

You can see the swirl design on the sides of the salad bowl and the scalloped rim around the top.  This is one of the pink depression glass patterns you can collect and enjoy every day if you choose.

Jeannette made this only two years, 1937 to 1938, and in a full dinner set with many accessory pieces like a vase, pitcher, butter dish, candle holder and candy dish.  It’s a good pattern that doesn’t have a lot of spots that nick easily; it’s reasonably sturdy.  Yet for some reason it is not terribly expensive.  People like it; they don’t pursue it as much as you would think.  For example the 9 inch salad bowl is under $30, certainly among the most affordable patterns.

Besides pink Jeannette made this in ultra marine teal and solid blue delphite.  The teal is really pretty too.

We have a good set of the pink so please check us out!

New Martinsville Square Pink Elegant Depression Glass Etched Bowl

Isn’t this pretty?  It is line number 36 from New Martinsville Glass in a beautiful medium pink.  It was sold to me as Cambridge and the photo wasn’t too good so I was surprised and delighted to have a mystery on my hands.

Recently someone told me they had a whole set of this but never knew what it was.  Since this was one of the more challenging id jobs lately, I thought you might like to follow the Glass Detective Lady as she solves tricky glass cases.

Several companies made square-ish glass, Fostoria’s Mayfair, Central’s line 1450, Paden City Crow’s Foot and of course, New Martinsville.   I started there.

This looked kinda sorta like a Paden City pattern I remembered seeing in my Paden City book.  Nope.  Not Paden City.  Ruling out Fostoria and Central was easy since they didn’t have the extra little nubs in the middle of the sides.  That left New Martinsville.

Unfortunately my New Martinsville book is not as helpful as my others – the photos are sparse and some are hard to make out – and it covers the more extensive patterns.  I use Replacements website for identification a lot but they didn’t have this line.  New Martinsville made similar shapes, one is called Fancy Squares but it has rounded scallops and corners, not these prominent little fingers in the corners and nubs on the edges.

New Martinsville Square Pink Glass Etched Candleholder

Somewhere in all this research I came across line 36 and noted it in my database but promptly forgot.  (Hard to be a detective when you can’t remember anything for more than 30 minutes.)  I didn’t have any luck finding the etch.  A few weeks ago I got the bowl out again to list it and checked the Chat About Depression Glass pattern gallery.  This is an excellent site backed by some true experts, and sure enough, there was my bowl.  Mystery solved.

The silly thing is when I listed it I realized I have the amber center handled server in the exact same pattern identified correctly.