To help fight fraudulent sales of glass on eBay, we thought it might be useful to understand some of the ways dishonest dealers manipulate buyers into thinking they are getting a piece of first-run or original...
Currier Ives Dinnerware is the most popular pattern ever produced by the Royal China Company of Sebring, Ohio. This dinnerware, with scenes from Currier Ives prints, was produced from 1950 to 1986. It was...
EARLY AMERICAN PRESSED OR PATTERN GLASS In the early 1800's until the time of the Great Depression,people of wealth commonly used expensive cut glass and crystal. Indeed, folks used as much glass ware as...
(ALERT - NEW INFO ADDED - SEE END OF GUIDE BELOW!) As a collector of Candlewick for over 40 years, I would like to share some important advice. Many beginner Imperial Candlewick collectors are fooled by...
Iris and Herringbone is the traditional name of the more official "Iris" pattern made by the Jeanette Glass Company starting in the 1920's. It's one of the most unforgettable and unmistakeable glassware...
THE ROOSTER AND ROSES pattern dishes made in the 50'S in JAPAN are very COLLECTIBLE and hard to find DINNERWARE and side pieces to go with them. EBAY ABOUT ME PAGE I have been collecting and buying and...
Early American Prescut Glass (EAPC) is a very popular glassware pattern on eBay. Because of the popularity of my first EAPC guide Early American Prescut (EAPC)Glass: Then, Now, and Forever, I have also written...
"If you list it, they will bid..." Don't you wish that were always true? I have enjoyed buying vintage wares for years, ever since my sister-in-law "turned me on" to thrift store shopping. Before her, I...
This guide is for folks like me with a decent camera, but nothing fancy, and no great studio to do good photos in. Taking a good glassware photo can get hard under these conditions. So I have some tips. ...