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 automated productions as soon as they were able, becoming one of the best and most prolific companies to produce cheaper glasses and pitchers and jugs by machinery.

The 1930’s saw Federal Glass emerge as one of the leading producters in machine pressed, molded tableware in various colors, and in the forties they expanded their operations to include service to the food service, or restaurant industry.

During the next decades after the forties the Federal Glass company emerged as a lead supply house to many commercial food institutions not only nationally but world wide.
In the late 1950’s Federal Glass became a division of the Federal Paper Board Company, and continued to produce glassware until the very late 1970’s when they ceased operations.

The company even remade one of their popular glasswares, Recollection, as part of the American Bicentennial celebratory pieces, coloring it a bit darker and embossing the numbers 76 on the pieces.(on thing to note is that after Federal Glass went out of business, the molds were taken in by Indiana Glass, who did produce the same pieces in blue and pink colors, so if you’ve got one, it may not be Federal Glass)

Patterns which the Federal Glass company made include:

Colonial Fluted "Rope"- (1928-32) (Crystal, Green)

Columbia- (1938-1942) (Crystal, Pink)

Diana - (1937-1941) (Amber, Crystal, Crystal Decorated, Pink, Frosted Colors)

Fruits - (Crystal, Pink, Green) (1931-1936)

Georgian - (Amber, Crystal, Green) (1931-1936)

Madrid - (1932-1939) (Amber, Blue, Crystal, Green, some Iridescent, Pink)

Normandie - (1933-1940) (Amber, Crystal, Iridescent, Pink)

Parrot (Sylvan)- (1931-1932) (Amber, Some Crystal, Green)

Patrician - (1933-1937) (Amber, Crystal, Green, Pink)

Rosemary (Dutch Rose) (1935-1937) (Amber, Green, Pink)

Sharon (1935-1939) - (Amber, Crystal, Pink, Green)