Depression glass is also marked by imperfections, like air bubbles and uneven saturation in color, ... The colors range from yellow, amber, blue, green, pink, and crystal.

The general term Depression glass applies to items made in the ’30s, ’40s and ’50s by American companies, Fiore says. It was inexpensive machine-made glass that was given away in movie theaters.

According to Novak, most people associate uranium glass with the Depression Glass of the 1920s and ’30s, but this glass has ...

PINKE via Flickr (CC BY)You’ll find depression glass in nearly every antique store, but that doesn’t mean these historical pieces are easy to come by. Created during the Great Depression, this ...

Your set of opalescent yellow dishes was made much earlier than the Depression era. The pattern is Jackson and was made by Harry Northwood and Company in Wheeling, W.V., around 1904.

Depression glass can be distressing, if not depressingly confusing. From uranium to carnival, Depression-era glass glows. February 21, 2016 at 1:41 a.m. | Updated February 21, 2016 at 1:41 a.m.

THE TERM, “DEPRESSION glass” is used to describe colored, transparent glassware made from the mid-1920s to the 1950s. There was a lot of clear glass and milk glass produced at the same time ...

Depression glass is immediately recognizable for its striking colors, often in green, blue, pink and yellow. “There’s an amazing rainbow of colors,” Fuhrman said.

Other terms – Vaseline glass and Depression glass, for example – came later and apply more specifically to lighter yellow glass and glass made during the Great Depression, respectively.

Millie Downey can tell a story about every one of the 10,000 pieces of Depression glass in her shop just north of Orlando. Millie Downey, 88, tells the history of a soda glass that’s part of … ...