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Most of us have a few differently shaped glasses, some to use every day and others for parties. You need a water glass and wine glasses, one for white wine and another for red. Before dinner you need cocktail glasses and rocks glasses for whiskey “on the rocks” (ice cubes). It is possible to collect vintage glassware in more than a dozen shapes. Cordial glasses are popular because they are small and made by many firms in many colors, often with cut, engraved or painted decorations.
The unusual shape and coloring of this glass brought $450 at auction. It is a Rhine wine glass, a shape no longer in demand.
A Rhine wine glass was offered at Woody Auctions in 2019. It is a rarely used shape with a cupped bowl, a tall stem and a flat round foot. The auction had an example made by Val St. Lambert, a Belgian glass firm that started in 1825 and is still working.
The auctioned example was made of blue glass cut to Vaseline glass with a clear stem. It sold for $450. The company copied many United States glass patterns, including some used by Fry, Libbey, Sandwich, Dorflinger, Bergen and more. It also made vases, punch bowls, biscuit jars, compotes, candlesticks, coasters and many other table items.
Val St. Lambert can be hard to identify. When new, there is a paper label or the company name in a circle or an oval with clipped ends. It also may say “depose,” the French word that refers to a design patent.
Q: I have a set of Stangl dinnerware that I got from an aunt years ago. It’s the Pink Dogwood pattern. There are dinner plates, salad plates, cups and saucers, and other items. Most have the price tags still on them and haven’t been used. I’d like to sell them.
A: As we’ve said many times before, it’s hard to sell sets of vintage dinnerware. If you find a matching service or online source that will buy it, you have to pack it, insure it and ship it, and it likely won’t sell for very much anyway. It’s easier to try to sell it locally. Take it to a local antiques dealer who sells dishes or to a consignment shop. They may help you set the price and will tell you what percentage you’ll get if it sells. It probably will be a better deal to donate it to a charity shop and take the tax deduction.
Current Prices
Child’s highchair, Windsor, 6 spindles, black & red paint, plank seat, splayed bamboo turned legs, 30 x 16 inches, $180.
Bronze Sculpture, “Young girl jumping over a boy,” flying pigtails, leapfrog, patinated, 49 x 39 in. $470.
Indian, moccasins, Plateau, beaded, diamonds, hide, sawtooth edging, blue, red, c. 1910, 9 inches, $650.
Pie safe, cherry, 2 doors, 4 punch tin panels, interior shelves, dovetailed drawers, shaped skirt, 65 x 58 inches, $1,060.
TIP: If you are in an area with earth tremors or windstorms, or even near a heavily traveled road or train track, you may have pictures that move on the wall. To keep them straight, use two picture hooks next to each other.
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