Autumn Colors in Depression Glass

I don’t know about you but my favorite season is fall. Possibly because of the crisp air and the falling leaves. Even with a bit of the warmth of spring in the air, I still reminisce about the last fall with its crisp cool nights and the brilliant colors.

I find myself, while on the hunt for dinnerware or other glass treasures, hunting for ones that are mindful of my favorite season, and using them for things like Halloween, Thanksgiving and Christmas, particularly if there will be company at my house for the holidays.. Lets face it, with some of the patterns we collect, its never too early to get hunting for the things we want, since we’re likely not going to be able to gather up the entire set in one fell swoop unless we are really, really lucky.

When I went out to the department store to find enough dishes for the last gathering in a pattern that I liked, the price tag had me gasping for air. While I love Royal Doulton, gathering up service for 15 on my budget just wasn’t what you might call practical … The price tag at the store was a bit on the exhorbitant side, the reasonably priced white bone with the gold rims won’t go in the microwave and I did have to draw the line at eating Thanksgiving from pretty patterned paper plates,  so I went internet shopping. Don’t you just LOVE shopping on the internet? What on earth did we do before we could buy up our favorite old glass pattern from someone in Virginia or California and have it sent to us in a week or less.

There are always bargains aplenty on the internet, the trick is knowing where to start, and more to the point, what to start with. How do you get the best buy for what you have to spend?

The answer is invariably depression glass. Depression glass, which is in essence, dime store glass thats yesterdays answer to the people who had no money to speak of, and wanted something pretty to put on their table. It was passed out as a premium in many cases, at gas stations, in laundry soap and many other areas, and there were literally thousands of different kinds and hundreds of different patterns.

I”ve found that the gorgeous fall colors are among the least collected oddly enough and the most reasonably purchased, so that you can find a beautiful amber, topaz or deep green , and the patterns may range from Columbia, Diana, Florentine, Iris and Herringbone, Lincoln Inn, Diamond, Waffler, Camero, Jubilee, Lorain, Princess, Rosemary and many others.

If you start shopping now, chances are you’re going to have found enough of your chosen pattern and color and purchased it, to have it all in stock by the time that autumn rolls around again, and no matter what you use it to serve, it will never look quite so pretty.
Happy Shopping.

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