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Anchor Hocking Low Sherbet Dish Replacements is teeming with Depression glass, and this pink sherbet dish would make the perfect addition to your china cabinet as decor, table as a candy dish, or cupboards for serving dessert.
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Bridget Degnan, Southern Living, 22 Mar. 2024
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.
—Caroline Eubanks, Washington Post, 11 Oct. 2022
The décor evokes a diner meets a millennial’s apartment, decked with heirlooms—blond wood, terrazzo counters, open shelves displaying Depression glass and vintage floral china, faux-Victorian wallpaper.
—Shauna Lyon, The New Yorker, 24 Dec. 2021
Now a coveted collector's item, Depression glass refers to lightly tinted, molded glassware that was mass-produced throughout the mid-1920s and into the 1940s.
—Jessica Bennett, Better Homes & Gardens, 3 June 2021
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Bridget Degnan, Southern Living, 22 Mar. 2024
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.
—Caroline Eubanks, Washington Post, 11 Oct. 2022
The décor evokes a diner meets a millennial’s apartment, decked with heirlooms—blond wood, terrazzo counters, open shelves displaying Depression glass and vintage floral china, faux-Victorian wallpaper.
—Shauna Lyon, The New Yorker, 24 Dec. 2021
Now a coveted collector's item, Depression glass refers to lightly tinted, molded glassware that was mass-produced throughout the mid-1920s and into the 1940s.
—Jessica Bennett, Better Homes & Gardens, 3 June 2021
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“Depression glass.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/Depression%20glass. Accessed 27 Feb. 2025.
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