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Here’s an all over crystal table to show how a place setting would have looked for lunch 60 years ago. Contemporary hostesses often combine crystal plates with china, allowing the crystal to add sparkle and style with the china giving a solid backdrop. This was less common when Tiffin Glass made this lovely cut glass [...]
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Elegant Glass Tables
July 21st, 2010 @
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Welcome to Tablescape Thursday. Today we have something different for you, a table full of ultramarine teal depression glass and Tiffin cut crystal stemware captured in photos and a video. The teal glass is Swirl from Jeannette Glass. It’s a simple design that looks great in the rich ultramarine glass. How do you like the [...]
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Depression Glass Tables
March 26th, 2010 @
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Thank you for joining me this week for Pink Saturday and thank you to Beverly of How Sweet the Sound for being our gracious hostess. This week’s Pink Saturday we’re back to elegant glass, this time from Tiffin Glass. Tiffin was part of the US Glass group and stayed in business into the late 1980s, [...]
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Pink Saturday
February 12th, 2010 @
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Thank you to Beverly from How Sweet the Sound for hosting Pink Saturday and allowing me to join the fun. If you read my Tablescape Thursday post this week you saw a beautiful pink pitcher with a scarf-draped dancer swirling among the scrolls and swags. Today we see the matching tumblers in this pretty pink [...]
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Pink Saturday
January 27th, 2010 @
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I wish I knew who did this. It’s a simple shape with straight stem and rounded bowl with straight sides. The etch – or sand blast – is a solid band with joined lines that have little dangles hanging down. So who did it? One possibility is Tiffin. They made a stem that Gene Florence [...]
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Vintage Stemware & Goblets
January 25th, 2010 @
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Tiffin Glass survived until 1980, outlasting so many of the American glass houses. They operated as Factory R, a unit of the U.S. Glass company. Tiffin was known especially for their beautiful stemware. The piece shown here is a good example. This is cut crystal, not etched, and the name is a pun. You can [...]
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Tiffin Elegant Glass
November 18th, 2009 @
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This is stemware week here and we’re getting in the Christmas mood seeing our neighbors’ decorations and the gift catalogs in the mailbox. To honor the upcoming Christmas parties and family visits, let’s look at a set of stemware that would be perfect for cocktails and even ice cream. This is the Killarney champagne sherbet [...]
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Vintage Stemware & Goblets
May 25th, 2009 @
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Tiffin Glass is one of the elegant glass makers that we carry in our elegant depression glass stores. Tiffin made an incredible array of glass, from detailed cuttings to very beautiful etches, and many, many stemware patterns. The stemware we’re showing today are cut and have intricate stems. The one pictured is June [...]
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Tiffin Elegant Glass