Vintage Dinnerware
Vintage Dinnerware is a great collectible, not only is it beautiful, well made and fairly easy to find at reasonable prices, it can also be used daily or frequently - allowing you to enjoy it much more than many other vintage collectibles.
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Blue Willow China
Blue Willow China is one of the most popular and well-recognized china patterns produced. The design originated around the late 1700s, created by Josiah Spode. The concept was taken from China with a pattern called Mandarin. The original design includes a willow tree with love birds hovering nearby (thus the name), a Chinese style home with a bridge, three people with servants and a small Chinese boat.
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Franciscan Ivy Dinnerware
Franciscan Ivy Dinnerware was produced by Gladding, McBean and Co from 1934-1962. The idea was creating a variety of clay products from left over architectural terracotta and even sewer pipe! When the depression of 1929 came, they decreased the amount of building materials they created, substituting earthenware pottery for home use.
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Franciscan Desert Rose Dinnerware
Franciscan Desert Rose Dinnerware was started in the early 1940s and is perhaps the most readily sold dinnerware produced in America throughout the last 70 years. Some of the Nations most famous and influential people used this china including Richard Nixon and Jacqueline Kennedy.
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Franciscan Dinnerware
Franciscan Dinnerware began in the early 1930s as a production of Gladding McBean & Company. Located in California, this company created dozens of patterns and styles of tableware. The Lock Joint Pipe Company merged with Gladding in the early 1960s, but continued making the dinnerware out of the California facility until 1984. At that point the production of these wares moved to England, with some of the latter patterns created in China and Japan.
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AMBER GRAPE SHAPED BOWL WITH BUBBLE PATTERN?
I HAVE A DARK AMBER COLORED DISH 13 LONG X 9 1/2 X 3 DEEP. IT IS SHAPED LIKE A CLUSTER OF GRAPES. ON THE INSIDE IS VERY SMOOTH, BUT OUTSIDE, IS THE BUBBLED
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Deep red stem goblets, any idea of make/year?
We are a not-for-profit adoption agency and someone donated these glasses to us for a fundraiser, but we have no idea how to value them because we can't
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Green Depression Glass Identification
I found these in my mothers things, I want to say she told me it was depression glass, but I have no idea the era, or the manufacture. I would love some
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Don't know if they are goblets or what to call them, please help
very old, they were my grandmothers. Don't know anything about them. I have 2 one is red. The blue/purple one is really neat, it looks like it changes
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Please identify green depression? glass plate design
I have a set of 8, eight and 1/4 inch forest green plates that I think I acquired at a garage sale in Ocean Grove, New Jersey 40 years ago (or they may
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Tiara Glassware
Tiara glassware has connections with many American glass companies including Fenton, Lancaster Colony an d Duncan Miller. It began in 1970 when Tiara Exclusives became part of the Indiana Glass company in response to consumer demand for party plans. People loved Tupperware, so why not have something similar that was both beautiful and perfectly functional.
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Westmoreland Glass Company
Westmoreland Glass Company, best known for milk glass, created many collectible glass patterns and pieces between 1889 and 1984, including two very popular Depression Glass Patterns. Here is their history and notable patterns.
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ID Request - Set of Etched Yellow Depression Glasses
These glasses are very thin etched with a flower and leaves - there is also an etched design on each. I can not find them anywhere as depression glass
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Having trouble Identifying Clear Glass Bowls
I have been searching and searching the web for info on a set of ten (berry??) bowls I purchased, and I can't seem to find this pattern. Any help would
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Would like to know the manufacturer of these wine glasses!
I have two sizes of these wine glasses or goblets. The larger holds approximately 8oz the smaller (looks more like a ice cream dish) holds 6 oz. They
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ID Request - Vintage Heisey Pattern - Fruit / Punch Bowls
I have exhausted all possible avenues of information in the effort to identify this pattern. My friend also has a Heisey book and checked it through out
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Need help identifying these frosted glass bowls
I found a set of four of these at a thrift store. They stack and appear to be late 50s or early 60s design. Glass is frosted white with red brick pattern
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Iridescent sugar (w/ lid) & creamer set - very similar to Aunt Polly, but different
I recently purchased this iridescent sugar and creamer set because of it's amazing similarity to Aunt Polly. Based on size and dimensions, the items appear
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Vintage Compote Identification Request
Good day, I hope you can help identify age and perhaps manufacturer. Recently bought at an Auction in Pretoria, South Africa: A pair of Bohemian-styled
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Need Help Identifying Green Depression Glass Creamer and Sugar Odd Maker's Mark
I cannot seem to identify the pattern or maker of this green depression glass sugar and creamer. They stand 3 tall and have vertical flutes that stop about
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I would appreciate your help identifying and valuing some dishes
Over 50 years ago, my grandmother gave me a glass luncheon set -- still in the original box. I have never used them, don't know if she did. There are:
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Depression Era Juice Glasses ??? Help to Identify
Set of pastel glasses from grandmother who had depression era glass. These were found after her death and I was unable to ask her about them. They form
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Help with pattern ID - amber glass
I need help identifying this pattern. I thought this was depression glass, but I can't find it in any of the books. I have several pieces with this pattern
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light blue glassware and cobalt blue glassware identification request
These were given to me by an Aunt, they are probably 60 years old. The light blue plates are 8 1/2 and 7 1/2 the glasses are 5 1/4 tall the goblets are
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Glass ID Request - Help with 2 pieces.
1. 4 glass plates, 3 in one pattern (Garlands) and 1 in a different pattern (Roses). All plates are 7.25 across. These were my great aunt's. She was born
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Glass ID Request: Etched glasses with gold rim
These two antique glasses were my great grandmother's and I am seeking help in identifying the pattern/manufacturer and hopefully approximate time period.
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ID Request - Pink depression sugar and creamer set with HAND ETCHING ?
Can you help me determine what pattern these are? There are a sugar and creamer with what looks like lazer etching, but each egg/circle/cherry/leaf is
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Trying to identify this green beaded bowl and who made it
This bowl or dish is 1 1/8 inches high to the top of the beaded rim. The top is 3 3/4 inches across to the outside edge of the beads. The bottom is 2
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Need help figuring out who made this bowl and how old it is.
This piece has a beautiful merrigold yellowish color at the top that fades into a dark orange reddish color towards the bottom.It has two glass handles
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What kind of tumblers are these ?
I have a set of 8 tumblers,white 3 tall opaque at the top.No markings on the bottoms of these tumblers except for on the bottom one says A-16,one says
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