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You can find all kinds of unique items while shopping thrift stores or estate sales. These potentially valuable glass items can be awesome purchases.
The woman, from Ayrshire, brought the small glass vase onto the BBC show without expecting much. She told experts it had been sitting in the attic after a plant in it died. She was ready to throw ...
Born in the Italian town of Brescia, Roberto Beltrami grew up just a few hours’ drive from Venice and the island of Murano, world-famous for producing beautiful glassware. But it was nearly ...
Uranium glass, often called “vaseline glass” due to its yellow-green glow under UV light, exists in its own ultra-unique realm of Depression glass. This type of glass contains small amounts of ...
Murano has been Venice’s glorious glass-making island since the 13th century. Tolerating life in Venice means constantly navigating its delicate collection of islands, bridges, boats and canals.
Jessica Vincent had just started surveying the shelves of a Virginia thrift store when a vase caught her eye. It was shaped like a bottle and had ribbons of color, aqua green and amethyst purple ...
hold a rare carnival glass vase which sold for a record $250,000 at auction in November. Sieverdes purchased the vase for his museum with Clark as auctioneer. (Photo Provided) DEXTER CITY ...
“The Glass Maker” is a gorgeous paean to Venice and Murano and to the artists and artisans whose glass has made our homes and lives more beautiful the world over. If you, like me, and like ...
Randy Clark of the Dexter City Auction Gallery in Dexter City, Ohio, holds the Peoples Vase to be auctioned on Nov. 30. The rare piece of carnival glass will bring in from $110,000 to $140,000 ...
Two plastic plants, a blue glass vase of dead flowers, and a cactus. The cactus is the only living thing left of the four, and lucky it is, for it gives me hope that I can at least keep that alive.