If you’re looking for something that is both interesting and pretty, as well as inexpensive to collect, then why not try collecting the antique insulators that have been used on telephone and telegraph poles literally since the inception of the telegraph. Glass insulating pieces were first produced in the mid 1850′s to be used on [...]

Those who collect canning jars, and even those who don’t will often find a jar at the local flea market, which has the embossing on it, proclaiming it 1858.. and be thrilled with their find.   Likewise, we’ve seen literally dozens of fruit jars for sale at yard sales which bear that embossing, that are [...]

  Cleaning your older glassware, particularly if its painted, isn’t always an easy choice to make, since we all tend to be a bit nervous about doing it any real damage. First of all, prior to beginning to say what I use, and what works for me, I’d like to tell you want DOESN’T work, [...]

Lefton China has been sadly neglected over the years, never really gaining the popularity that such wildly collected products as Spode and Royal Doulton have achieved, which is in its own way a positive thing. Due to the lack of interest for a longer time, in collecting this high quality, well made china, the prices [...]

The Royal Danish Porcelain Manufactory, which  was later to become Royal Copenhagen, was founded by a pharmacist, Franz Müller (1738-1820), who was an expert in chemistry and also loved and studied mineralogy avidly. Ine the early part of the 1770s he was experimenting with hard feldspar porcelain made from quartz, kaolin and feldspar. That was [...]

What exactly is Delft? Tin-glazed DelftLike any other glassware, the answer isn’t a simple one actually. Typically its blue and white pottery, but it may take other colors, such as brightly painted designs.  Many people refer to Delft as that which is made by only one company but the fact is th at Delft Pottery [...]

  One of the absolutely most fun and amazing thing about collecting china, porcelain or nearly any kind of glassware is the mystery and the hunt to find the things you don’t know about it.   The bottom of your new piece of glass will, in nearly every case, offer you some kind of mark [...]

The Jack in the Pulpit vases are favorites among many glass collectors.The Jack in the Pulpit style of vase is a popular favorite of many collectors. The vases and other glassware items were inspired by the plant, Jack in the pulpit, a beatiful American wild flower, but to those who collect glassware, it no longer [...]

Animal images are common in many native amercian pottery styles.Just as baskets differ from each basket maker and blankets and textile art will differ with each weaver, Native American Indian traditions in pottery are hard to be general about since each tribe has developed so differently over the years. Simple truth, what we see as [...]

As an artistic medium, glass can be used creatively to create some very interesting optical illusions, bending and refracting light and images to trick the eye in endless ways. The optical and physical properties of glass make it an ideal medium for captivating the eye and the mind. Even the stem of an ordinary wine [...]