Luminescent and solid, mysteriously shimmering with elusive colors on crisply molded shapes, carnival glass has a dual personality. These pressed-glass objects—bowls, plates, compotes, tumblers, and ...

vintage marigold carnival glasses with price tags - Adrienne Bresnahan/Getty Images Browsing your local secondhand shop is a great way to score unique, rare, and valuable items at unbelievably low ...

If there is a single material that plays an ornamental role in almost every home in America, it is glass. We all have some, whether in artwork, bowls, drinking vessels, pitchers, statuary, vases or a ...

Q: We recently acquired two bushel baskets filled with old carnival glass that belonged to my husband’s grandmother. How can we check out the value? A: The value of pressed and iridescent glass ...

Q: I have several pieces of carnival glass, but I can't find any maker's marks. The carnival glass on eBay all has marks. Any info? A: Here are two news flashes: First, any smart collector does a ...

Why they’re special: Carnival glass had its heyday around the turn of the last century. The Fenton Art Glass Co., which opened in 1905 in West Virginia, turned out thousands of pieces of the sparkly ...

Although a distinct kind of glassware from around 80 years ago, this stuff includes or resembles several other kinds of glass from about the same time. Collectors not only have all this to sort ...

Carnival glass is pressed glass, meaning that hot molten glass which may or may not contain colour of its own is poured into metal moulds and conforms to their shape. Carnival glass is pressed glass, ...

When rummaging through glass items available at a thrift store, many attractive pieces may be eye-catching but not necessarily worth a significant amount of money. If someone is lucky enough to come ...

It's a touchstone of mid-mod decorating and puts portable color in every room. Apart from its decorative value, antique and vintage glassware is also an enormous collectible category. The varieties ...