Browsing Tag »Vintage Stemware
Posted 2 days, 6 hours ago @
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Welcome to this week’s Tablescape Thursday with a retro table in pink and clear. Isn’t it pretty how the pink depression glass picks up the pink in the vintage bird figurine planter and contrasts with the depression goblets. Here’s the centerpiece – my favorite little bird and the Petalware pink creamer and sugar. Did [...]
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Depression Glass Tables
Posted 1 week, 2 days ago @
Kathy //
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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
Posted 2 weeks, 1 day ago @
Kathy //
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Do you enjoy detective stories? This isn’t a whodunit with dead bodies or great bank heists, but a safe quiet hunt to identify exactly what this goblet is. My grandma had a set of red tumblers that had honeycombs on the side that I always liked. Years later I found that honeycomb pattern is Georgian. [...]
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Tips to Identify Glass
Posted 3 weeks ago @
Kathy //
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Welcome to Pink Saturday! Remember Beverly of How Sweet the Sound has a challenge to all of us to visit at least one new blog every week. It’s always fun to see everyones visions of pink. This footed tumbler is one of my favorite depression glass patterns, Floral or Poinsettia by Jeannette Glass. It’s so [...]
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Pink Depression Glass
Posted 3 weeks, 2 days ago @
Kathy //
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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 [...]
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Elegant Glass Tables
July 29th, 2010 @
Kathy //
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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 [...]
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How to Enjoy Your Glass
July 28th, 2010 @
Kathy //
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Welcome to Tablescape Thursday on a lazy summer evening. It’s a great day for green. Today’s table combines three Haviland Limoges china patterns with etched crystal goblets from Cambridge Glass and topped off with a green crystalline glaze vase from artist Dave Eickholt. All the china pieces are vintage French Limoges, thin and light, almost [...]
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China and Crystal / Tablescapes
July 21st, 2010 @
Kathy //
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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
July 15th, 2010 @
Kathy //
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Is it Meadow Rose or is it Navarre? How can you tell? These are two of the most popular Fostoria designs and they look a lot alike. Read this to learn how to tell them apart. Fostoria Glass made both patterns on the same blank, which is a fancy way to say they used the [...]
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Antiquing Together
July 7th, 2010 @
Kathy //
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Today’s tablescape is is one of those things that sounds like a great idea in the middle of the night that isn’t maybe quite so wonderful when you’re actually awake. Does your subconscious play tricks on you too? The dishes are American Sweetheart, a gorgeous depression glass pattern here in soft pure white. I’m not [...]
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Depression Glass Tables
