Vintage glassware encompasses many types of decorative and functional objects including glasses, plates, vases, and bowls. They range from simple and affordable to ornate and extravagant.
Contrary to the urban legend that glass is a slow-moving liquid, it's actually a highly resilient elastic solid, which means that it is completely stable. So those ripples, warps, and bull's eye indentations you see in really old pieces of glass “were created when the glass was created,” Cima says.
Sash Windows
Each of these type of antique windows usually has wood sashes, also known as muntins or lites, that framed the window and held the individual panes.
Look for pink, blue and green glassware
Pink, green and blue are the most valuable colors of depression glass. Pink tends to be the most valuable because it is more rare. Yellow and amber colored depression glass is more common and therefore less valuable.
The first Westmoreland pieces were marked with a W inside a keystone, and in the 1940s this logo was changed to the more recognizable overlapping WG. Some Westmoreland pieces today are completely unmarked. Later production runs were sometimes labeled with a paper sticker, which is long gone in nearly every case.
FLEMISH. (Obscure visibility) Flemish glass has the look of hand blown glass without the seeds, bubbles, or the price tag. Light passes through while visibility is distorted – creating some privacy. This glass type offers an old world / slightly antique look.
What is an Awning Window? An awning window has hinges at the top of the frame, and swings outward from the bottom. They can open with the simple crank of a handle or with the basic glide of the Easy-Slide Operator hardware. Awning windows are great in places that could use extra ventilation and light.
It can be etched on the glass surface itself or in the spacers between double-pane windows. If you find a text string like this, write it down as well as any other markings or text you might find. This code will represent the date of manufacture and the maker's brand. A Google search should verify this information.
Cylinder Glass
It's also known as wavy glass for the bubbling, undulating imperfections found in the surface of the glass that distort images when you look through it.
Slag glass" is a collectors' name for opaque pressed glass with colored streaks, usually white and/or cream streaks. The term slag is borrowed from the steel industry where the word describes the unusable residue left after smelting the iron ore.
oeil-de-boeuf window, also called bull's-eye window, in architecture, a small circular or oval window, usually resembling a wheel, with glazing bars (bars framing the panes of glass) as spokes radiating outward from an empty hub, or circular centre.
Cobalt glass—known as "smalt" when ground as a pigment—is a deep blue coloured glass prepared by including a cobalt compound, typically cobalt oxide or cobalt carbonate, in a glass melt.
Cranberry glass or 'Gold Ruby' glass is a red glass made by adding gold salts or colloidal gold to molten glass. Tin, in the form of stannous chloride, is sometimes added in tiny amounts as a reducing agent. The glass is used primarily in expensive decorations.
Crystal and glass are composed of different materials, with crystal lending itself to a greater shine as well as more intricate designs. While glass is made from sand that has been liquified, crystal sets itself apart with something known as flint glass.
Sliding Window
Often referred to as a slider or gliding windows, sliding windows have sashes that slide either left or right in a single frame. A two-lite sliding window has two independent sashes that slide horizontally.
According to the Efficient Windows Collaborative, the hopper window definition includes windows with movable sashes that openinward. The hinge is on the bottom, and they make excellent windows for bathroom or basement installations. Since the windowpane tilts upward, it stops debris from blowing into your house.
A picture window is a large, fixed-pane window, generally made without glazing bars. A picture window gets its name from the fact that it is designed to give you a clear view of your surroundings without any obstructions—essentially acting as a picture frame for the scenery outside the window.
Seedy glass, or seeded glass, includes the slight bubbles & wavy pattern found in early original flat glass. Produced using double IG (insulated glass) unit to provide safety, security, and energy efficiency.
Rain Glass, an addition to the Obscure Glass line from MI Windows and Doors, has a pattern that resembles water trickling down a smooth sheet of glass. Beyond the visual effect, the glass provides privacy and diffuses light, while resisting stains and fingerprints.
Stippolyte glass is a textured glass option that will obscure windows and is an ideal glass design in a bathroom or other area. Stippolyte glass gives you a textured glass pattern, almost like a light rain drizzling on the surface of still water.
Westmoreland produced carnival glass beginning in 1908 and reissued novelties and pattern glass in carnival treatments in the 1970s until the plant closed in 1984.
Paper labels were used extensively by Westmoreland Glass, usually with the words Westmoreland Glass written in a circle around the keystone or around the W in G trademark (example shown above left). Westmoreland Glass 1950-1984(1991) by Lorraine Kovar.
Westmoreland Owl Toothpick Holder
Milk glass owl toothpick holders seem to be holding steady on their value with many continuing to sell for $10 to $15 in 2019.