Desirable Vintage Cookware

[Cronker]

Oh yes.

and if it is coloured glass, double the price.

Edited January 4, 2018 by Cronker (log)

[Cronker]

A nice, not chipped frog vase in clear glass - about $25-$35

same in coloured glass - upwards of $80-90

[Shelby]

Oh wow

[Cronker]

Exactly - who would have thought?  Tupperware is the best example I want to give you. In the 70's, when swinger parties were all the rage, anyone not interested in sexing it up threw Tupperware parties.

my mother would buy a salad spinner or a set of nesting bowls, because of the inherited need to buy something just to placate the host.

now, I can price vintage Tupperware at the very high end - and it sells like crazy.

[Cronker]

@Shelby

are you saying you have a frog vase?

please post a picture if you have.

[Shelby]

12 minutes ago, Cronker said:

@Shelby

are you saying you have a frog vase?

please post a picture if you have.

Not anymore 

[Shelby]

I am going to go dig in my basement...there MIGHT be another.  I know I have a "frog" but I dunno about the vase.  Sigh.

[Cronker]

Sigh.

unfortunaly, it doesn't work that way.

complete, non-chipped = value

otherwise = nothing 

[Shelby]

Yeah...I figured.  

 

Thanks though   I am loving reading about your finds.

[cakewalk]

These footed glass bowls have been in my family since at least the early 1950s. There used to be three of them, but one broke along the way. I doubt they have any value, but they hold so many memories. They were originally part of our Passover set of dishes, and I can remember my mother and even my grandmother mixing batter for "bubelas" (matzo meal pancakes) in them. 

[andiesenji]

18 hours ago, Cronker said:

Apart from perhaps the Dutch oven, none of these pieces are of any great value.

but question for the team - I'm thinking that the Rena-ware fish knives would have been used when serving a whole fish to the table, with each guest filleting it themselves?  They are bendy like a big fish knife, but I can't see a chef using them unless they were filleting sardines etc?

Those fish knives were very popular with servers in restaurants where the whole fish was presented at the table and then deboned by the server and transferred to the patron's plate.

I had a friend who was a chef at the Huntington Hotel in Pasadena for many years.  He had at least a dozen of those knives as well as some gorgeous carving knives.  He promised me one but he died unexpectedly of a heart attack and his son let his wife go through the kitchen stuff and she tossed them.  When I mentioned the knives, he was so apologetic and said he had no idea his wife did not realize the worth of all those knives and other kitchen things.  She was not a cook, thought it was all junk and dumped them without asking him.

 

[andiesenji]

18 hours ago, Cronker said:

These pieces are cute.

I have the green "measuring pitcher" that the reamer goes to.  Broke my reamer about 15 years ago. I have a clear one with it now.

[andiesenji]

17 hours ago, Cronker said:

Money money money.

uranium glass is crazy valuable right now.

 The story goes that during the war years, glass makers could not use lead because it was needed elsewhere for the war effort.  So they turned to uranium.  Don't worry, it's completely safe, and highly valuable.  That juicer in my picture is worth about $50.

bigger, more ornate pieces will go for multiple hundreds of dollars.

You need to have a UV torch to verify, but if it glows under UV, its uranium/depression glass.  There are collectors who will give you their first born child for the stuff.

Likewise "frog" vases from the 30s-50s -  highly sought after and very very valuable.  Think before your garage sale!

Long before the war years.  The green glass stuff was late '20s and to the late '30s.  The bright red glazes used by Hall China "Chinese Red" in the 20s and most of the 30s contain uranium. It's not dangerous unless you surround yourself with two or three tons of the stuff.

True "Vaseline" glass is not clear green. It is a slimy-appearing yellow with a bare hint of green.  It is called vaseline glass because of the appearance.  A lot of people refer to the clear green as vaseline glass but they are incorrect. 

Here are a couple of good examples.  These are in regular light, under black light they glow bright green. 

[cakewalk]

These are Anchor Hocking sandwich glass dinner plates. I think everyone in the United States had these plates at one time. They are from the 1950s and were also part of our Passover dishes, although now I use them for everyday use. I also have some juice glasses, a couple of small bowls, and a sugar bowl and creamer. At one time I had wanted to try to complete the set, but these dinner plates were selling on the internet for $90-$100 apiece, so that put an end to that. I have five or six of them, it will have to do. I love using them. 

[weinoo]

Tell me more about the swinger sexing it up parties. 

 

I have lots of depression glass from my mom, but here it's not really worth that much.

[andiesenji]

On 1/4/2018 at 2:30 PM, cakewalk said:

These are Anchor Hocking sandwich glass dinner plates. I think everyone in the United States had these plates at one time. They are from the 1950s and were also part of our Passover dishes, although now I use them for everyday use. I also have some juice glasses, a couple of small bowls, and a sugar bowl and creamer. At one time I had wanted to try to complete the set, but these dinner plates were selling on the internet for $90-$100 apiece, so that put an end to that. I have five or six of them, it will have to do. I love using them. 

 

It's older than the 1950s.  Duncan and Miller began producing Sandwich pattern in 1925 and continued into the 1930s when Anchor Hocking and Indiana Glass began producing even wider lines. And much was produced and given as "premiums" in bags of flour well into the 1940s.  I remember seeing pieces, mostly in pink coming out of flour bags when I was a child.  

It was sold at dime stores in the 1950s but production was limited to standard dinner services and tumblers, juice glasses,  and Dessert or "Tea" sets, 

I like this color.  I had some of the ruby red, plates, bowls, a footed cake plate, tumblers and a water pitcher.  Sold them to a friend who wanted them for a Holiday display in her shop window about 20 years ago.  She had a gourmet kitchen shop - has since passed.  

[Cronker]

They are very pretty.

[Cronker]

@andiesenji

would you like the reamer shown in the picture to complete the item?  I'm not attached to it and it's yours for the asking.

[andiesenji]

2 hours ago, Cronker said:

@andiesenji

would you like the reamer shown in the picture to complete the item?  I'm not attached to it and it's yours for the asking.

 

 

Thanks for the offer but it may not fit mine after all.   I got it out to take photos and this is one of the clear reamers and it has an outer flange which sits on top of the pitcher.

 

I took some photos. Note the measurement markings. 

 

 

They left nothing to chance.  One side is "Cups" measure  and on the other side is Pints, Cups and Ounces, just in case.

 

It is a bit greener than appears in the photos, the flash washes it out.  

 

Yours is made to sit down into a slightly smaller pitcher that has a ridge below the rim inside for the reamer to rest on.  Like this one.

 

 

There is no marking on this one to indicate the maker,  it has been found in clear, green, pink, amber, blue and white milk glass, but they are few and far between but don't carry a high price.

 

While I was pulling out the green one, I decided to bring this little amber one out too. It is a stand alone LEMON reamer, made by Federal Glass. They made them in two sizes and both have the spout on the side.  I don't know if you can tell the difference in size from this photo but the amber one is about 2/3 the size of the clear one and it is surprisingly heavy for its size, weighing just under a pound at 15.8 ounces.  

[Cronker]

Okay.  I can clearly see the difference in your picture. And they are all so very beautiful.  Porn to me.

I'm not at all interested in value, to be honest, I just like things.  I have a very selective eye, and even if I know something is rare and valuable, it doesn't get my money unless I really like it.

i would rather have a heap of cheap junk that I really like rather than a heap of expensive junk that I bought with resale profit in mind.

[Cronker]

The amber one is very pretty.

[Cronker]

On 05/01/2018 at 10:42 AM, weinoo said:

Tell me more about the swinger sexing it up parties. 

 

I have lots of depression glass from my mom, but here it's not really worth that much.

You are more than welcome to send it to me.

if you have a bowl, we could even all put our keys in it

[Cronker]

I'm getting this tomorrow, but with more tips.  Tala piping set.

 

 

[cakewalk]

I bought something similar a while ago. I haven't used it yet. (Maybe tomorrow.) Yours comes in a very nice tin. 

[weinoo]

16 hours ago, Cronker said:

  Porn to me.

 

I dunno, @Cronker, this seems to be a theme, between the swinging sex parties, the bowls with the keys in them , and now this  !

 

I know food is sensual...

 

My mom was a big collector of cookie jars - I ended up with two of them...

 

 

I'm fairly sure the sentimental value is greater than the monetary.