Elegant Glass with Border Etches
This page includes designs that are predominately around the or along the edge taken from patterns that we have owned.
Cambridge Glass Patterns with Border Etches
Cambridge #520, Byzantine Etch #520 has a stippled-like edge with intricate scrolls and two chain-like swags beneath; look for pink (Peach-Blo), amber, green and likely other colors. I have seen it only at glass shows and it is beautiful.
Cambridge Etch #739 with Urn and Feathery Scrolls Etch #739 is unmistakable with its large central urn motif surrounded by feathery scrolls. Look for the usual Cambridge early depression era colors, green, pink, amber, so on.
A post comparing Etch #739 with #727 and #732 Magestic is here.
Cambridge Etch #703, Florentine Etch #703 has a border of fine lines and stipples with scrolls left clear, a graceful design. Gene Florence named this “Florentine” as Cambridge used only the line number. Look for dinnerware plus stemware and accessories in green, pink, amber, blue, others.
Cambridge Etch #727 – Cotton Puffs This is an elusive pattern, pieces are hard to find and the pattern is very poorly documented. That’s a shame because it is a gorgeous design and I love the cotton ball type motif. (Cotton Puffs is my nickname.) The design h as stylized daisies between half-moon shaped scrolls and the scrolls hold the cotton puffs/flower buds.
A post comparing Etch #739 with #727 and #732 Magestic is here
Cambridge Etch #732, Majestic, Big Flowers with Scrolls and Swags. Majestic is another unmistakable etch with huge, stylized oval flowers between large, intricate scrolls and swags. Look for Majestic – which is Cambridge’s original name – in green, blue, pink, amber, topaz and ebony and you may find stemware, dinnerware and lovely accessory pieces like this center handled server.
A post comparing Etch #739 with #727 and #732 Magestic is here
Cambridge Glass Windows Border Etch 704, Scrolls with Border Ovals. I’ve found several pieces in Cambridge #704 etch in green and amber and pink and it seems to be a more common pattern, at least in Michigan, than some other older Cambridge etches. Windows Border nickname comes from the little clear ovals in the textured design around the edge, but the scrolls are just as distinctive with the central motif.
Other blog posts with this pattern:
Three Reasons to Love Depression Glass Showing green console bowl
Please Don’t Drool on Your Keyboard – Depression Glass Colored and Clear Showing pink beverage set
First Scores from Our Antiquing Trip! Cambridge Amber Glass Showing amber creamer and sugar
Peacock and Wild Rose Bowl – Beautiful Pieces from Depression Glass Show Showing green pitcher
Come with Me Shopping for Depression Glass This and next post show amber cup and saucer
What Depression Glass Pattern Should I Collect?
How to Be a Little Classy – Elegant Cheese and Cracker Sets Next posts show amber cheese & cracker set
Saying Good-Bye to a Favorite Piece, Cambridge Cheese and Cracker Set
Amber Depression Era Glass – From Honey Gold to Deep Russet
Glass Pick of the Week: Cambridge Etched Cheese & Cracker Set
Really Neat Snacking Glass – Cheese & Cracker Sets
How to Add Pizazz to Your Entertaining
Fostoria Glass Patterns with Border Etches
Fostoria made many etches where the stemware has design all over the bowl and dinnerware has the etch only on the rims.
Fostoria Vesper – Open Flowers and Scrolls in Green, Amber and Blue. Fostoria Vesper etch is a rim-only design on plates and dinnerware but the etching covers the entire bowl on stemware. It’s one of my favorites. Vesper’s most distinctive points are the flowers are clear while the background is etched and the small curlicues that dip into the white space under the border.
Posts about Vesper
Antiquing Fun – Take Time to Ooh and Aah!
What Depression Glass Pattern Should I Collect?
Fostoria Royal Etch – Lotus Flowers. Scrolls and Stippling. Fostoria Royal is a true border etch, a narrow band of scrolls and lotus flowers. I saw only a couple pieces of it in the 20 years I bought glass even though Fostoria made Royal in a full set of dinnerware for several years, 1925-32, in green, amber, plus blue and ebony with stemware and accessory pieces.
Posts about Fostoria Royal
Antiquing Road Trip – Last Day in Indiana
Fostoria Seville – Close Cousin to Royal but Daisies Instead of Lotus Flowers We do not have photos of this; please see Replacements site.
Seville is so similar to Royal that you need to look carefully at the main motif and the top and bottom edging. Royal has lotus flowers while Seville has daisies. Plus the top and bottom design on Royal is a series of small scrolls where Seville has crosses on top and ovals on the bottoms. Fostoria made both patterns in dinnerware, accessory pieces and stemware and used the same blanks and colors.
Depression Glass Patterns with Border Designs
I was surprised at how few depression patterns have the design around the rim and not in the centers or exuberantly placed on the sides of tumblers or cups. Most patterns are all over, or if they are on the rim, like Federal Rosemary, they repeat the motif in the center. I am always impressed with how detailed depression patterns are, with the design motifs carefully thought out and placed for maximum appeal.
Hocking Vitrock Opaque White Depression Glass with Flower Border. Hocking made Vitrock in the later part of the Great Depression, 1934-1937, in a solid white glass. The design is a raised rim with flowers, somewhat similar to Fire King Alice, except Alice has ribs underneath the flower border.
Here is a close up:
Smith Glass Pebbled Rim. I saw one piece of this at an antique mall but do not have photos. Please check Replacements here:
MacBeth Evans Cremax, Chinex Classic, Chinex Oxford Translucent White Glass These three patterns are similar with slightly different rim designs and all of them may have plate centers that are plain or decorated with decals. The rims also may have colored bands. My post Those Confusing Cremax Patterns – Three Tips to Tell Them Apart shows the differences in more detail.
