The people of the ancient world very likely discovered ways to make glass accidentally while firing what is called Faience, which is a kind of pottery that is glazed with a sodium compound. If the glaze mixed with the clay prior to firing, the result would be a glassy substanced created in the clays body. [...]

Most of us collect glassware in patterns, dinnerware, stemware and blown glass, but there’s a "whole nother world" out there so to speak, that can be interesting historically, fun to pursue and quite lucrative if you’re into buying and selling of antiques. Collecting old bottles is something not many people do think about, but its [...]

Royal Doulton, like any other company has, over the course of its existence, changed its mark several times, although in many cases the changes were slight in nature and did not completely change the mark or style. The Royal Doulton company began to use its mark in about 1879, and used that mark exclusively, save [...]

  The Federal Glass Company was established in 1900 in Columbus Ohio and operated their glass making by  hand, making pressed glassware, some of it with needle etchings. Federal Glass had the business acumen to anticipate the publics need for a large amount of glassware for a reasonable price and made the step over to [...]

  In a previous series on China marks we discussed the fact that due to lengthy histories, upheavals or simply the evolution of a company over a century or more, the marks used by the company changed, evolved or grew as the company grew. A perfect example of this is the Belleek company and its [...]

This series of articles explores the glass and china marks that will help you to identify the maker of the glass product that you’ve purchased or are considering purchasing. As most of you who collect glassware or china know, many of the companies who offer glassware, or have done so in the past, also offer [...]

 Libbey Glass Company began their business life named the New England Glass Company. They produced a wide variety of glassware, and in the end expanded their business to sheet glass and windshields, but are more widely known for their cut glass and shaped drinking glasses. The company was, in the beginning producing multiple items including [...]

  Anyone who knows anything at all about glassware has heard the name Royal Doulton, Royal Albert and knows the beautiful china and glassware, as well as the quality that goes along with the name. Most of us however aren’t aware that the company has been in existence for nearly 200 years and that there [...]

Its hard to think of an era that produced more interesting, quirky things than the fifties and that includes the glassware, the dinnerware and the furniture.. In the fifties you could find every possible height and shape of glass imaginable and entertaining by means of a cocktail party was the newest rage, so everyone, who [...]

Bohemian glass was world famous for its quality and appearance and today many glass factories and glass works in the Czech republic produce Bohemian glass, making what are replicas if older glass patterns, and capitalizing on the reputation of the Bohemian glass quality, although it may or may not be of that same quality.