For many Antique Dealers and Collectors, while there is usually a general love of all things "vintage", many have that one type of collectible that holds dear to the heart. For us, it's glassware particularly from the Depression Era. While Depression Glass is a favorite, we do not limit ourselves, as there are many different types of glassware that will excite the most particular "glassy". These include:
Amberina Glass: Amberina Glass is "heat sensitive" glass, which shades in color from amber at the bottom to red at the top. This color shading is due to the effects of reheating the top part of the glass before allowing it to cool. Amberina glass contains a precipitate of colloidal gold (as does gold ruby glass), which is heat sensitive and turns red at the right temperature.
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Cobalt Glass: This is a dark deep blue color with a mystique all of its own. It is made by incorporating cobalt oxide into the traditional molten glass mixture.
A couple of our favorite Cobalt pieces:
Shirley Temple Cobalt Blue Mug: http://pages.tias.com/7815/PictPage/1922699859.html
Cobalt Blue Glass Oval Eye Cup: http://pages.tias.com/7815/PictPage/1922354301.html
Carnival Glass: Earlier called Taffeta glass, Carnival glass was introduced early in the last century. Its producers gave it an iridescence that attempted to imitate that of some Tiffany glass. When demand for promotional "give-aways" from touring countryside carnivals (Carnies) became popular, glasshouses started to produce this type of glass at a cheaper and greater pace during America's Depression Era. Therefore "Carnival Glass" became the household name for this type of iridescent glass.
A couple of our favorite Carnival pieces:
Marigold Carnival Glass Flower Frog: http://pages.tias.com/7815/PictPage/1922367720.html
Daisy and Button Slipper Shoe: http://pages.tias.com/7815/PictPage/1922683873.html
Milk Glass: Opaque white glass, or "opal" has been called "milk-white" perhaps to distinguish it from transparent or "clear-white glass." Resembling fine white porcelain, it was viewed as an inexpensive substitute. Opacity is obtained by adding bone ash or oxide of tin to clear molten glass. By the addition of various coloring agents, the opaque mixture can be turned into blue milk glass, or pink, yellow, green, caramel, even black milk glass. It has been made in numerous forms and shapes in this country and abroad from about the first quarter of the 19th century. It is still being produced and there are many reproductions of earlier pieces.
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Blue Milk Glass Top Hat Vase: http://pages.tias.com/7815/PictPage/1920984741.html
Ruby Glass: Produced for over one hundred years by every glasshouse of note in this country ruby glass has been used to create decorative items such as one might find in gifts shops, utilitarian bottles and kitchenware, figurines, and dinnerware lines such as were popular in the Depression era. Ruby properly used to describe glass which is made of a comparatively expensive gold solution formula, and is red in color all the way through, solid color. True "Cranberry" glass falls into this group, although it usually has applied clear glass parts.
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Georgian Tumbler: http://pages.tias.com/7815/PictPage/1920850179.html
Vaseline Glass: Vaseline, a greenish-yellow colored glass produced by adding uranium oxide to the batch, was produced during the Victorian era. It was made in smaller quantities than other colors and lost much of its popularity with the advent of the electric light. It was used for pressed tableware, vases, whimseys, souvenir items, oil lamps, perfume bottles, drawer pulls, and doorknobs. Pieces have been reproduced, and some factories still make it today in small batches. True Vaseline glass will fluoresce under an ultraviolet light, or otherwise known as black light.
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