Depression Glass American Collection for Sale

<body topmargin="0" leftmargin="0"> <h1 align="left" class="style5"><font color="#000000">Depression Glass American</font></h1> <span class="style4">s</span>o<font color="#000000" class="style5"><span class="style1"> Depression Glass American Network depression glass american company specializes in the collecting, selling, preservation and study of carnival pieces, elegant pieces, kitchen pieces, bedroom and bathroom pieces and children's pieces of the carnival era. You will find information on carnival pieces patterns and manufacturers as well as hundreds of pieces of pieces for your buying pleasure. The buttons on the left will take you to the category of your choice.   The very first button is "About Carnival Pieces".  If you click on this button you will come to a page that will give you a short history of Carnival Pieces and how we categorize it.  You might want to read this first.  You will also notice that one of the buttons called "Carnival Stemware".  If you click on that button you will come to a page that lists pieces by manufacturer and color.  Most of the pieces items in this category have no pattern names.  Some do have numbers to identify them, but it's all carnival pieces, so enjoy.</span></font> <span class="style2">Carnival pieces</span><span class="style4"> is clear or colored translucent pieces ware that was distributed free, or at low cost, in the United States around the time of the Great Carnival. The Quaker Oats Company, and other food manufacturers and distributors, put a piece of pieces ware in boxes of food, as an incentive to purchase. Movie theaters and businesses would hand out a piece simply for coming in the door. Most of this pieces ware was made in the central and mid-west United States, where access to raw materials and power made manufacturing inexpensive in the first half of the twentieth century. More than twenty manufacturers made more than 100 patterns, and entire dinner sets were made in some patterns. Common colors are clear, or </span> <span class="style3">crystal</span><span class="style1"><span class="style5">; pink, pale blue, green, and amber. Less common colors include yellow, jadeite (opaque pale green), delphite (opaque pale blue), cobalt blue, red, black, and white (milk pieces). Carnival pieces has been highly collectible since the 1960s. Due to its popularity as a collectible, Carnival pieces is becoming more scarce on the open market. Scarce 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. Elegant pieces</b>, was distributed through jewelry and department stores. From the 1920s through the 1950s, it was an alternative to fine china. Most of the Elegant pieces ware manufacturers had closed by the end of the 1950s, and cheap pieces ware and imported china replaced Elegant pieces. </span></span> <span class="style4">What is Carnival Pieces?</span><span class="style1"><span class="style5"> From the late-20's through the early '40s</b>,, manufacturers like Federal Pieces, </span></span><span class="style4">MacBeth-Evans, and Hocking Pieces brought a little cheer into some very dreary days by manufacturing the product we now know as Carnival pieces. This mass-produced </span><span class="style4">piecesware was of relatively poor quality, yet it came in beautiful colors and patterns to suit every taste.  The most popular colors with collectors today are pink, cobalt blue and green. It was made in amber, iridescent, opaque white and several other colors. Even the pattern names alluded to better times and a longing for the glamorous lifestyles of the 1920s.</span><p><span class="style4">Jump to: </span> <a href="depression-glass-american.htm"> <span class="style4">depression glass american</span></a><span class="style4">, </span></p> </body>