Plain-English reference pages on vintage and antique things — what they are, how to tell what you've got, and what it's actually worth. Researched, sourced, and updated as we learn more.
Opaque glass — usually white, but also blue, pink, yellow, brown and black — made opaque by adding an opacifier to the batch. It s…
Clear and printed glass bakeware that started as railroad lantern glass and reached American kitchens because one scientist's wife…
The only cookware category where the hundred-year-old version is genuinely usable daily, and often preferred. Cast iron barely cha…
Glass with uranium melted into it, which turns it yellow-green in daylight and makes it blaze bright green under a blacklight. It …
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