The basic "Puss in the Slipper" came from Columbia Glass Co. ca 1886 in Findlay Ohio. It's first version had Daisy & Button around the back half...
If a punch bowl has a Diamond H on it it is not this pattern. Heisey did make a pinwheel punch bowl, but not this, This is absolutely U. S. Glass...
I first thought about Northwood's Chinese Coral, but have no knowledge of other colors like that so I abstained. Is the decoration from...
The yellowy glow is from the presence of Calcium, most glass made with lime (Calcium oxide) will have a yellow, or lime yellow glow, (greenish...
Yah, I get tied up in original names, forget about the Also Knowns.
Here's more than you need to know, but background. This design was first issued by Adams Glass Co., Pittsburgh in 1889, they called it X.L.C.R....
When I do searches for things like that I limit the response to SOLD items only. that eliminates hopeful ask prices. You don't even see the ones...
Second Photo. Its the shape of Hobbs Brockunier's No. 312 oil. Fenton either had a mold from Hobbs, or had one made to match it. The stopper (as...
Hasn't Replacements fixed that? Libbey bought Rock Sharpe, sold old stock and never looked back. Libbey never (to the best of my knowledge) ever...
I tried (poorly) to say that some wares sold by Imperial may have been made by Heisey before they closed. Thusly, no way to differentiate.
No. 1180 was a catch-all pattern, many unrelated pieces were included. The Debra Sugar and Cream are the only two that look like that.
Only a little like Heisey's Comet, which has no foot. The safety rim is not something Heisey's wares would have either. This was made after...
Tall's got it all, above. As an aside, when the company changed hands (twice in 2 years) from Campbell, Jones, to Jones, Cavitt, to U. S. Glass...
I dont' see a problem. While the black light is not a guarantee, if the question is "are these Imperial or Heisey?" The answer is "Yes" but no one...
Tom Came by, at least this Tom came by. Yeah, the body (first gather) probably had some uranium in it, may have been left from a previous batch...
As to the green glow under black light. There is some thought that it comes from the calcium in the glass. Calcite, a mineral has that same glow....
Given that it is red on top and canary (some call it Vaseline) on the bottom, it may be called Rubina Verde, it fits the description. There are a...
Glass in dishwashers. We ruined a set of Fostoria American Sodas, frosted them the first time we washed them. On the other hand, we've been using...
Some could call it "cameo", but its not, really, just sand carved.
The short answer is that it was made by the Steimer Glass Co., in Buckhannon, WV about 1905. The pattern is commonly called "Sawtooth Honeycomb",...
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