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Depression glass is glassware made in the period 1929–1939, often clear or colored translucent machine-made glassware that was distributed free, or at low cost, in the United States and Canada around the time of the Great Depression. Depression glass is so called because collectors generally associate mass-produced glassware in pink, yellow, crystal, green, and blue with the Great Depression in America.
History
The Quaker Oats Company, and other food manufacturers and distributors, put a piece of glassware in boxes of food, as an incentive to purchase. Some movie theaters and businesses handed out pieces to patrons.
Most of this glassware was made in the Ohio River Valley of the United States, where access to raw materials and power made manufacturing inexpensive in the first half of the 20th century. More than twenty manufacturers made more than 100 patterns, and entire dinner sets were made in some patterns. Common colors are clear (crystal), pink, pale blue, green, and amber. Less common colors include yellow (canary), ultramarine, jadeite (opaque pale green), delphite (opaque pale blue), cobalt blue, red (ruby and royal ruby), black, amethyst, monax, and white (milk glass). Some depression glass is uranium glass.
Although of marginal quality, Depression glass has been highly collectible since the 1960s. Due to its popularity as a collectible, it is becoming more scarce on the open market. Rare pieces may sell for several hundred dollars. Some manufacturers continued to make popular patterns after World War II, or introduced similar patterns, which are also collectible. Popular and expensive patterns and pieces have been reproduced, and reproductions are still being made.
Manufacturers and patterns
Elegant glass
A prominent sub-category of Depression Glass, Elegant glass, is of considerably better quality, often including polished mold seams, and hand-decoration such as cut patterns, etched patterns, and painted patterns. It was distributed through jewelry and department stores from the 1920s and continuing after the Great Depression through the 1950s, and was an alternative to fine china. Most of the Elegant glassware manufacturers had closed by the end of the 1950s, when cheap glassware and imported china replaced Elegant glass.
Some Elegant glass manufacturers were:
Cambridge Glass Company
Consolidated Lamp and Glass Company
Duncan Miller Glass Company
Fenton Art Glass Company
Fostoria Glass Company
Heisey Glass Company
Imperial Glass Company
Lotus Glass Company
McKee Glass Company
Morgantown Glass Works
New Martinsville Glass Company
Paden City Glass Company
Tiffin Glass Company
Westmoreland Glass Company
See also
Burmese glass
Carnival glass
Elegant glass
Fiesta (dinnerware)
Goofus glass
Hazel-Atlas Glass Company
Milk glass
Pressed glass
Satin glass
Uranium glass
Uranium tile
References
External links
National Depression Glass Association
Consolidated Lamp & Glass Co History
Depression glass identification:
ChatAboutDG Glass Pattern Database
Maker Marks by David Doty's Carnival Glass website
Many Indiana Glass Patterns by Carnival Heaven
Glass Company Histories, Glass Patterns/Colors/Definitions
Brief summary on Depression glass
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