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Watermelon glass — as this pink and green stemware from the Great Depression is known — is as beautiful as it is difficult to find. Photo by Roger Werth / The Daily News.
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The revival of flea-market style items, French antiques and the "Shabby Chic" trend has brought Depression glassware back into the forefront of home table decorating. $2 for 6 months SUBSCRIBE NOW ...
Patrician Pattern by Federal . Sometimes called the "spoke pattern," this Depression glass pattern was manufactured by Federal from 1933 to 1937.It came in clear, green, pink, and amber as shown here.
PINKE via Flickr (CC BY)You’ll find depression glass in nearly every antique store, but that doesn’t mean these historical pieces are easy to come by. Created during the Great Depression, this ...
Depression glass, as it came to be known, was produced in a wide range of bright colors—pink, pale blue, green, amber, and less common colors like canary, ultramarine, jadeite, delphite (opaque ...
A 1976 New York Times’ piece on Depression glass talks about how a 20-piece dinner set was sold for as little as $1.99, at time when 12.8 million Americans were out of jobs.
Susan Conforti of Green Tree stopped counting her collection of Depression-era wine glasses at 120. As she gleefully perused the offerings Saturday at the 46th annual Depression Glass and Pottery ...
Many antique lovers ask me about glass of all types: Murano, Depression, Early American Pattern Glass, American Brilliant and Pyrex — and the list goes on. One of the most ...