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Summary: An antiques expert explains the various shapes for ruby flash glass antiques in this free video on collecting antiques.
Sue Shea has been dealing in antiques since 1979, and has her own shop, Shea Antiques, located in Shelburne Falls, MA. Her passion is early American 18th & 19th century antique country...read more
"When talking about ruby stain glass or ruby flash glass there what we mentioned earlier was that virtually any tableware press tableware that was made in the late 1800's from 1888 is where about it started till the 1920's. Anywhere on those tableware patterns you can find this ruby flash glass so I have some examples here to show you but you can find a full tableware set that means your dinner plates your cups and saucers your water pitchers, there's a huge range of shapes and sizes that you can find in ruby flash glass. Because it was complete dinnerware sets I don't have a lot of examples of plates here but I do have some examples of mugs cups and saucers that we can share here today about the ruby flash. Here's a nice example of a shape of a covered butter dish this is a really pretty pattern that you'll find and you'll sometimes find it without the cover on it but it's particular butter dish has cover with it you can see it's clear on the bottom, but the ruby in almost a ball pattern is very pretty and impressive piece."
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