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Highest listing price on eBay: $7,400. Uranium glass, often called “vaseline glass” due to its yellow-green glow under UV light, exists in its own ultra-unique realm of Depression glass. This ...
Depression glass is glassware made in the period 1929–1939, often clear or colored translucent machine-made glassware that was distributed free, or at low cost, in the United States and Canada around the time of the Great Depression. Depression glass is so called because collectors generally associate mass-produced glassware in pink, yellow ...
Featuring a smiling moon, a cat and a fiddle, a dish and a spoon, and a lid that depicts a cow jumping over the moon, this cookie jar is a true ceramic representation of the “Hey Diddle Diddle ...
Elegant glass manufacturers produced vibrant colors that varied far more than Depression Glass. [1] Shades of red, blue, green, amber, yellow, smoke, amethyst, and pink were produced. An easy way to compare the difference in color quality is to take a look at a piece of cobalt Elegant glass and place it alongside a piece of cobalt Depression Glass.
Uranium glass is used as one of several intermediate glasses in what is known to scientific glass blowers as a 'graded seal'. This is typically used in glass-to-metal seals such as tungsten and molybdenum or nickel based alloys such as Kovar, as an intermediary glass between the metal sealing glass and lower expansion borosilicate glass.
In 1905, the Hocking Glass Company was founded by Isaac Jacob (Ike) Collins in Lancaster, Ohio, and named after the Hocking River. [2] In 1937, that company merged with the Anchor Cap and Closure Corporation , thus becoming Anchor Hocking Glass Corporation.
Early American molded glass refers to glass functional and decorative objects, such as bottles and dishware, that were manufactured in the United States in the 19th century. The objects were produced by blowing molten glass into a mold, thereby causing the glass to assume the shape and pattern design of the mold.
The glass made by Lancaster Glass Company can also be considered elegant glass, as it went through several finishing processes before being sold. [3] In 1924, the company was acquired by Anchor Hocking, who continued to produce glass under the Lancaster Glass Company name until 1937. After 1937, the Lancaster plant was known as Plant #2, which ...