Glass & Ceramics
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Bitters Bottle Could Bring $30,000 at Glass Works' Auction
The Old Sachem Bitters and Wigwam Tonic bottle is the star lot in a two-day sale April 25-26 packed with flasks, inks, target balls, fire grenades, and black glass.
Vintage Fire Grenades History and Value
What are fire grenades? From the 1870s through the early 1900s, liquid-filled bottles were used to fight small house fires. Today they are rare and collectible.
The History of Shiny Brite Ornaments
The most popular mid-century Christmas ornaments in the U.S., Shiny Brite glass ornaments still sparkle with collectors throughout the holidays.
Holt-Howard Warms The Nostalgic Holiday Heart
The history of Holt-Howard's wonderfully kitschy line of mid-century Christmas wares featuring starry-eyed Santas, angels, elf girls and more offers a sentimental and collectible winter wonderland.
Tiffany Window Shines Light on Carolina Parakeets
Learn the story behind Louis Comfort Tiffany's important stained-glass window, 'Parakeets and Goldfish Bowl,' which is not only a triumph of craftsmanship, but also one that memorializes the only parrot ever native to the United States.
Windows to His Soul
Carl Heck grew up knowing far more about cattle and corn in rural Missouri than he did about the fine glass works of Louis Comfort Tiffany. But today, Heck is a renowned Tiffany glass expert. Here's how it happened.
Lady Head Vases: 10 Things You Didn't Know
Ceramic beauties with impeccable style, lady head vases are a charming and popular mid-century collectible.
Weller Pottery's Whimsical Coppertone Line
One of the most well-known lines Weller produced in the 1920s, Coppertone continues to delight collectors.
The Key to Authenticating Satsuma
How to tell the difference between an authentic piece of this distinctive Japanese pottery and a modern one depends on if there is an English marking or not.
Ten Things You Didn't Know: Bride's Baskets
Learn more about bride's baskets, once the go-to wedding gift that remains popular with collectors.
Fine Glass Paperweight Guide
Discover the history and value of these small, enchanting collectibles, with their colorful and complex designs that have charmed glass lovers for centuries.
The Zen of Glass Paperweights
Treasured by royalty and collectors alike, glass paperweights offer dazzling yet soothing patterns, like snowflakes under glass, frozen forever.
Creating Jewelry From Broken Antique China, Glass
Dishfunctional Designs creates one-of-a-kind wearable mementos from discarded fragments of antique china, pottery, glass and textiles.
Vintage Restaurant Ware Creamers
Vintage restaurant ware creamers have earned their distinction as a separate category of collectibles and remain popular with collectors.
Vintage Barware at Ruby Lane
Vintage barware is always in style and Ruby Lane has all of the key ingredients for setting up a home bar.
2-DAY AUCTION – 400+ VINTAGE SAFES & ANTIQUES
The Irving Isicoff Collection / International Museum of Safes will be sold at AUCTION on May 25th & 26th. Visit www.stamplerauctions.com to register and prebid. This is a once in a lifetime opportunity that includes safes over 200 years old along with over 300 lots of antique scales, décor and more. Don’t miss it. See y’all there.
