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Amberina is a type of two-toned glassware, which was originally made from 1883 to about 1900. Amberina was patented by Joseph Locke of the New England Glass Company, and was produced extensively there. It was also produced a lot by the successor company the Libbey Glass Company at Toledo, Ohio, into the 1890s. [1] It is still being made today.
Vasa Murrhina is a cased glass; the name means vessel of gems. This type of glass has a long history pre dating Fenton. Frank M. Fenton had glass chemist Charles Goe develop a way to make it since the way it was made was long forgotten. The piece starts out as a ball of glass that is rolled in small pieces of broken glass called frit.
A carnival glass vase. Carnival glass is moulded or pressed glass to which an iridescent surface shimmer has been applied. It has previously been referred to as aurora glass, dope glass, rainbow glass, taffeta glass, and disparagingly as 'poor man's Tiffany'. The name Carnival glass was adopted by collectors in the 1950s as items of it were ...
Steve Granitz/WireImage Britney Spears has taken to social media to reveal that her jewelry was stolen. “I’ll show you guys, for real, all my jewelry was stolen,” Spears, 42, can be heard ...
John Parra/Getty Images Ryan Sutter is reflecting on life with wife Trista Sutter after her mysterious trip. One week after Ryan, 49, shared an Instagram post reflecting on the concern he ...
The family of a Chicago woman missing in the Bahamas says they are “deeply concerned” for the safety of the 41-year-old, who traveled to the islands for a yoga retreat.
1,300+ (1979) Indiana Glass Company was an American company that manufactured pressed, blown and hand-molded glassware and tableware for almost 100 years. Predecessors to the company began operations in Dunkirk, Indiana, in 1896 and 1904, when East Central Indiana experienced the Indiana gas boom. The company started in 1907, when a group of ...
Marvin Glass and Associates (MGA) was a toy design and engineering firm based in Chicago. Marvin Glass (1914–1974) and his employees created some of the most successful toys and games of the twentieth century such as Mr. Machine , Rock 'Em Sock 'Em Robots , Lite Brite , Ants in the Pants , [1] Mouse Trap , Operation , Simon , Body Language ...