One of the better know Depression Era glassware manufacturers, the Indiana Glass Company made its well know patterns of glass dinnerware in pink, red, blue, green, yellow, amber, white and crystal.

The Indiana Glass company began about the turn of the twentieth century, or a bit earlier. It was originally part and parcel of the Ohio Flint Glass company, which were them consequently sold to the National Glass company. It incorporated as the Indiana Glass Company in 1907 and has operated under this name since that time.

Indiana Glass Company made their first line of tableware by molding it by hand, and it consisted of some very heavy crystal glassware which was made to sell specifically to tea rooms, soda fountains and restaurants.

The names Avocado, Tea Room, pyramid and Old English, fires appear in company records in 1923 and run to 1933, being among the first patterns produced by the company.

Their next addition to follow was colorization of the glassware in 1925, when amber glass was added, followed by pink the following year and in 1930, topaz came into play.

Later in the twenties, when the arrival of mechanized creations entered into play, they added molded, thinner dinnerware and glassware to their lines.

Three new patterns; Horseshoe, Vernon and Lorain, were introduced in the time between 1929 and 1930. These three patterns would prove to be the only molded dinnerware ever produced by this company.

For a brief time span, the Indiana Glass Company was producing both machine made and hand pressed glass.

Then the Depression hit the Indiana factory very hard, and by 1933 they had ceased production of all of the patterns as well as colored glass.

Today, all of the vintage pieces are in short supply and much sought after with the prices reflecting this fact.

If you are lucky enough to find it, hold onto it tightly and pass it along to the next generation of glass collectors at your house.