Depression glass

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Depressed glass is a clear or colored translucent glassmaker that is distributed free of charge, or at low cost, in the United States and Canada around the time of the Great Depression.

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A lot of glass depression is uranium glass. The Quaker Oats Company, and other food manufacturers and distributors, put a piece of glass in the food box, as an incentive to buy. Some cinemas and businesses hand out discounts to customers.

Much of the glassware is made in the Ohio River Valley of the United States, where access to raw materials and electricity makes manufacturing cheaper in the first half of the twentieth century. More than twenty manufacturers make more than 100 patterns, and all dinner sets are made in several patterns. Common clear colors (crystal), pink, pale blue, green, and amber. Less common colors include yellow (walnut), ultramarine, jadeite (pale opaque green), delphite (blue pale opaque), cobalt blue, red (ruby and royal ruby), black, amethyst, monax, and white (milk glass).

Despite the marginal quality, Depression glass has been heavily collected since the 1960s. Due to its popularity as collectible, it is becoming more rare in the open market. Rare pieces can be sold for several hundred dollars. Some manufacturers continue to make popular patterns after World War II, or introduce similar patterns, which can also be billed. Popular and expensive patterns and pieces have been reproduced, and reproductions are still being made.

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Manufacturers and patterns

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Elegant glass

Often confused with glass Depression is glass Elegant, whose quality is much better. It was distributed through jewelry and department stores from the 1920s through the 1950s, and is an alternative to fine porcelain. Most elegant glassware manufacturers had closed in the late 1950s, when cheap glasses and porcelain imports replaced the elegant glass.

Some elegant glass manufacturers are:

• Cambridge Glass Company
• Consolidation Lamps and Glass Company
• Duncan Miller Glass Company
• Fenton Glass Art Company
• Fostoria Glass Company
• Heisey Glass Company
• Imperial Glass Company
• Lotus Glass Company
• McKee Glass Company
• Glass Works of Morgantown
• New Martinsville Glass Company
• Company Paden Town Glass
• Tiffin Glass Company
• Westmoreland Glass Company

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Also see

• Carnival Glass
• Elegant glass
• Goofus page
• Hazel-Atlas Glass Company
• Milk glass
• Glass pressed
• Satin glass
• uranium glass

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Reference

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External links

Identification of depression glass:

• Creator Alert by Karniter David Doty's website
• Many Indiana Glass Patterns by the Carnival of Heaven
• Company History Glass, Pattern Glass/Color/Definition
• A brief summary of the Depression glass

Source of the article : Wikipedia