(All Auctions Shown are Ebay Results)Slag glass is marbleized opaque glassware made by several companies from about 1870 until the turn of the century. The opaque pressed glass has colored streaks, usually of white and/or cream. The term “slag glass” came from the belief that these colors were achieved by adding slag from [...]
(All Auctions Shown are Ebay Results)Toby Jugs and character jugs generally depict 18th Century men. A Toby Jug is a pottery jug in the form of a seated or standing person. Typically the old Toby Jug is the figure is a heavily-set, jovial man holding a mug of beer in one hand and a [...]
(All Auctions Shown are Ebay Results)Cranberry glass is a delicate pinkish red glass with a golden sheen made by adding gold chloride to molten glass. Tin (stannic chloride) is sometimes added in tiny amounts, and the process is both difficult and expensive. Today’s studio glassmakers can buy their cranberry glass in rods from specialist manufacturers. [...]
(All Auctions Shown are Ebay Results)Vaseline Glass is a form of uranium glass which is yellow-green in color. Vaseline glass is made by adding 2% uranium dioxide to the ingredients when the glass formula is made, turning the glass yellow-green. Uranium, usually in oxide diuranate form, is added to a glass mix prior [...]
(All Auctions Shown are Ebay Results)The weathervane, a common country sight, has become highly collectible. The earliest weathervanes were handmade of wrought iron and were generally simple angular silhouettes with a small hole suggesting an eye. Later, copper, zinc, and polychromed wood with features in relief were fashioned into more realistic forms. [...]
