... pea vase. For a brief period of time, I was able to do some serious collecting of this lovely glass. I'm not going to tell you what I paid for this because it was rather dear, but I didn't get ripped off. It's a valuable piece and ... not properly centered. I invested $15 in a book about depression glass, and probably saved myself much more than that, so it paid for itself. Here is a lovely sugar and ...

During the Great Depression, glass manufacturers often went out of business, merged with other companies, or were destroyed by fire and never rebuilt. Those that survived managed to encourage the heart of a nation defeated by poverty and suffering, offering tableware in many cheerful colors, including pink, blue, yellow and green depression glass. The cheaply [...]

A reader just contacted me with the following: Dear Ms. Maril: I just read your latest antique column in What's Up? Annapolis about antiques you can use in the kitchen. I have some dishes I inherited from my grandmother that are very attractive. While they are not actual kitchen gadgets they are nice for serving an elegant [...]

All this talk of economic depression got me thinking ... about depression glass! I pulled my green glass sandwich sets out of our china hutch and got to "comfort" baking. Mom's pumpkin chocolate chip bread. *I made it in the form of muffins!* YUM. Just like MOM baked!

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... barrister cabinet was my dads and is now one of my cherished possessions. I had displayed some of my carnival glass and depression glass in it, but it was so dark that the glassware didn't really show up. Yesterday we went to one of the big box home improvement places and bought three small wireless strips of LED lights. I used ...