THE ABC's OF GLASS COLLECTING 

 

Written and Photographed by June Grayson

 

 

Here are 154 categories of glass to get you started. 

 

A: Advertising, agata, amberina, animal, aventurine.

B: Bells, blown, blown-mold, bottles, bride's baskets, 

Burmese. 

C: Calico, cameo, candlesticks, Cambridge, Carnival, cased, Centennial, chocolate, coin, commemorative, cosmos, crackle, cranberry, Crown Milano, cruets, curiosities, custard, cut glass.  

D: Depression, dolphin, Dopplewand, Dorflinger, Durand, Duncan.  

E: Eglomise, enameled, end-of-day, engraved, etched. 

F: Fenton, figural, filigree, flasks, flint, flowered-pattern, Fostoria, frosted, Fry, furniture knobs.  

G: Galle, granite, green, Greentown, grotesque, Gunderson. 

H: Hand coolers, Handel, hats, Hawkes, Heisey, historical, Hobbs, hobnail. 

I: Icicle, Imperial, insulators, intaglio, intarsia, iridescent.  

J: Jade, Jamestown, jampots. 

K: Kelva, Kentucky Derby. 

L: Lacy, Lafayette, LaLique, lava, latticinio, Libbey, Locke, Loetz.  

M: McKee, maize, marble, Mary Gregory, medicine bottles, milk, milk bottles, millefiori, mother-of-pearl, Mt. Washington, Murano. 

N: Nailsea, Nakara, Napoleon bottles, Northwood. 

O: Opalescent, opaline, overlay, overshot. 

P: Paperweights, pattern, peachblow, peppermint stick, pigeon blood, pickle jars, plates, portrait flasks, pomona, pressed, purpled, "pyro"-pop. 

Q: Quartz, Quezal. 

R: Rainbow, rolling pins, rosaline, rose jars, Royal Flemish, rubina, rubina verde, ruby.  

S: Salts, Sandwich, satin, shaving mugs, shoes, silverina, spangle, spatter, Steuben, Swanky Swigs, swirl. 

T: Target balls, threaded, three-face, three-mold, Tiffany, toothpicks, tortoise-shell. 

U: Umpire jars, Union. 

V: Val Saint Lambert, vasa murrhina, Venetian, verona, verre de soie. 

W: Waterford, Wavecrest, witch balls. 

X: Xanthine. 

Z: Zanesville. ####