Mercury Glass

Glass Treatments

Mercury glass is shiny silver colored and popular for perfume bottles. It is still produced and was quite popular in the past.
As a collectible it’s value is linked to other factors; most of which are probably more important than the type of glass. For example, if a mercury glass perfume bottle was made by [...]

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Lead Glass

Glass Treatments

Lead glass is very heavy and very clear.  It makes a beautiful starting point for cut glass.  Knowing what we do about lead, it’s probably not a good idea to serve food, especially acidic foods, in it.  It has been used for fancy glassware for many years and is very collectible.
LeadGlass.net is where we have [...]

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Kanawha Glass Co.

Glass Manufacturers

Kanawha Glass is the West Virginia glass company for which we have the largest collection. My wife first saw their glass in the 1950’s when she was a little girl. She liked it then. When Ebay came on the scene collecting more of it suddenly got easier
Kanawha glass made many [...]

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Inkwells

Glass Products

Inkwells were a necessity until the recent (relitively) invention of the ball point pen.  Since they were used by everyone who could write they were manufactured in an incredable variety.  Not all were glass, but there are enough glass inkwells I thought a network of glass sites would be incomplete without them.
From a Search Eninge [...]

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Indiana Glass

Glass by Category

Indiana glass sounds like it should be a company, but it just refers to glass made in the state of Indiana for a time while land and gas to power the kilns was free or cheap. When the cost of business went up most of the glassworks closed down or moved.
As you can see [...]

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Imperial Glass

Glass Manufacturers

Imperial Glass were the makers of the Candlewick pattern; one of the most popular glass patterns ever produced.   It was, by far, their biggest success and is still actively collected.  Lots of younger people are inheriting Candlewick from their parents and need help identifying what they have and placing a value on it.
Imperial-Glass.info is the [...]

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Hobnail Glass

Glass Treatments

Hobnail glass is made with a design treatment that puts bumps all over the outside of the piece. There may be many or only a few hobnails. They may be the same color as the rest of the piece, or different. Hobnail is often combined with other treatments such as satin, cased, [...]

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Hamon Glass

Glass Manufacturers

Hamon Glass was mostly about Robert Hamon, although there were other family members who contributed. It is a West Virginia glass where a name on the bottom of the piece adds significantly to value. Like most of the other glass companies they went out of business in the 60’s.
We have been able to [...]

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Goofus Glass

Glass Treatments

Goofus Glass is a painted glass which was popular for a while in the 1920’s & 1930’s.  Since paint does not stick to glass especially well the prime consideration in determining value is the amount of paint loss a particular piece has experienced.  Naturally sellers see it as less of a problem then buyers [...]

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Glass Owls

Glass Products

Glass owls make a popular collectible. The glassmakers know this so most companies produced at least a few owls at one time or another. Because the the “wise old owl” cliche and the weight of glass many are made to be used as book ends.
GlassOwls.com is set up to show off a variety [...]

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