Vintage Thingie Thursday – 50's Charm

Today’s vintage thing is green dishware by Anchor Hocking in the "Charm" pattern. I showed this dishware in my St. Patrick’s Day tea tablesetting, and wanted to share a little about this simple but brilliant pattern.



The "Charm" pattern was produced by Anchor Hocking between 1950 and 1956 and was produced in both green and a ruby red color way. The square plates also have a starburst pattern in the center.

Plates included bread and butter, dessert, luncheon and dinner sizes. There is also an oblong platter.

Bowls came in dessert, soup and serving sizes.

The square cups were tea or coffee cups while rounded ones were for the large punch bowl and served as punch cups.

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Amber Depression Glass

Just recently, with fall on my mind, I have been gathering various amber glass dishwares. They are both new designs and depression glass. Here are two vintage patterns:

First, six Rosemary Dutch Rose 9 ½ in. diameter luncheon plates found at the local consignment shop.

They have embossed rose motifs around the rims and in the center.

This yellow/amber depression glass was made by Federal Glass Company from 1935-1937. The plates are quite sturdy and my mother and I have enjoyed eating off these lovely vintage dishes.

Also from the consignment shop is an 11-inch diameter plate in "Patrician Spoke" from Federal Glass Company. The pleasing light color is referred to as amber, yellow or golden.

Its gently scalloped edge is very attractive. This pattern was made from 1933-1937.

You can see where the name "Spoke" comes from – the spokes radiating from the center,

surrounded by a second row of spokes:

Aren’t depression glass dishes so pretty with their lacy patterns?

I wanted to use the Dutch Rose plates in a tablescape for today and started to gather the items needed. However, the past few days were focussed on getting things ready to take for consignment today. Here is a peek at the place setting as it is now:

There is a pale yellow tablecloth, golden flatware, gilt napkin rings, and an amber depression glass.

A modern amber glass might be substituted; however, since the table is on the formal side I think goblets will be better.

The setting is even more golden when the plate is set in gold chargers

Well it’s pretty late now, so I plan to have the tablesetting all done for next week’s Tablescape Thursday.

I am happy that you visited today, and hope you will come by again soon. Your comments rare most welcome.

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Vintage Thingies Thursday – Depression Glass

The past week has been very stressful, but I did not want to miss VTT. Last Thursday my mother was admitted to the local hospital and just came out today. With daily visits and two snow storms, I haven’t done as much blogging as I’d like.

My vintage thingies for this week are my pink or peach depression glasses. The first I received from my sister and brother in law as a birthday gift a couple decades ago. They are a set of four pilsner glasses. Though I have looked and looked, I haven’t found any in the same pattern.
Here they are in my new corner cabinet:


The next two glasses are by Tiffin. They are goblets with gold encrusted rims. I am currrently looking for more in this pattern to use with my pink and white Royal Albert “Lady Carlyle” china.


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Friday Show and Tell – Ice Cream Bowls

Show and Tell Friday is hosted by Kelli at There is No Place Like Home


This Tuesday I went grocery shopping and bought some Friendly’s Ice Cream which was on sale, buy one- get one free. One is Strawberry and the other Vanilla Bean. So far this week my mother and I have had ice cream three times. Each time I’ve served our portions in special small bowls.
This is how they look.

Back in December 1941 my parents received a set of these bowls as a wedding present. As children my brothers and sisters and I looked forward to Saturday nights when our Dad would make homemade ice cream, using one of those ice cream makers with the hand crank. We always had our serving in one of the little red bowls.

The bowls are 4 1/4" in diameter (or 5 3/4" from handle to handle), and are in the Royal Ruby color in the "Coronation" pattern by Hocking Glass Company. The design of the glass is banded with ribbing. These are called berry bowls and could be used to hold summer berries, fruit or other treats. I read that this pattern was made from 1936-1940. I suppose this makes them a variety of depression glass.

We still had these berry bowls when we moved to New York in 1959 and used them over the years. However, when their marriage ended in the early 1970’s, my mother sought to get rid of all that reminded her of Dad – a lovely French Provincial bedroom, etc. etc. including wedding presents.

But as the years went on nostalgia caused me to seek out these bowls. I bought 10 of the berry bowls and one larger 8" diameter (or 9 ¾" from handle to handle) serving bowl. It was fun serving ice cream to my small nephews and telling them that we had eaten our ice cream out of bowls like these when we were kids back home.

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