Iridescent and lovely. That’s our Floragold from Jeannette Glass, made in the 1950s but very much in the style of depression era glassware. As noted in the prior post, we had a huge inventory at one time – since all sold – which included some moderately hard to find pieces like the salad bowl, shakers, cereal bowls.
Just like with Iris, Jeannette made a slew of bowls. This size is the deep salad, a good shape for tossed salad since the lettuce stays in the bowl and doesn’t spill out when you serve. It’s about 9 1/2 inches wide so you can tell it’s pretty deep.
The salad bowl is one of the more costly pieces but still affordable. Back when I had it the book price was about $60 and I sold it for that. The current price on Replacements is $42, showing the price slide in the last 8 years or so.
This next photo shows the cereal bowl on the left, with a plain, smooth rim, and the square-ish, rimmed small berry bowl on the right. They are close in size but far apart in how easy they are to find and in value. Replacements doesn’t have the cereal in stock but the square-ish berry is $4 on their site. In my 2004 edition of Collectible Glassware from the 40s, 50s & 60s the cereal is $40 and the berry is $5.
Floragold is an example when it pays to be familiar with the relative values and scarcity of pieces. If you saw the cereal in a box lot it would be worth buying with an eye to resell, but leave the berry for collectors. (The cereal bowls aremore costly than the small berry bowls in almost every pattern.)
The shakers are interesting. Like all older glass, you have to be careful about salt residues and cleanable pepper mess on the glass, but you don’t have to worry about salt dissolving the shaker lid because these are plastic. The lids crack instead. I had several extra lids, all cracked and useless, but did manage to combine two good lids with two good shaker bottoms for a set.
Next time we’ll look at Floragold beverage sets. They offer interesting challenges for online shopping. Please leave a comment here or on my Facebook page at www.DepressionGlassFun.com if you enjoy reading this type of blog post. I prefer writing what people want to read.