Resources For Collecting Ruby Flash Glass

Video Transcript

"So I want to share with you a few different resource books that I have right here for when you decide when you want to collect ruby you can take a look at some of these books. This is a general book very inexpensive Shroders puts it out every year and it gives you a little of history and it will give you some examples and it will give you a listing of the different types of tableware. So this is one book that if you want to spend a little bit money and just get a very beginning look at what ruby stain glass is. Here's another book that gives detail this is a great book if you want to get serious about collecting full tableware or just want to see the varying patterns and there's many books out there like this. But this one in particular is a great book it's ruby stained glass for A-Z this is book #7 it's Victorian colored pattern glass. This is the encyclopedia and you can see there's a huge selection here you can see the punch bowl and punch bowl cups. The pitcher here you got your creams and sugars with varying degrees of ruby flash on it and even on the back it has a huge selection. It also gives you a price guide that you can see the vases these are great examples of the different variety of ruby stained that you can. The water pitchers the berry bowls the cups and saucers the covered butter dishes the sugar bowls so this book is just full of examples and patterns and price guide. So I'm sure there's a number of series of these books that you can take a look at I highly recommend it will help you define the way you want to begin your collecting. So books are a great resource and I highly recommend them for starting to collect ruby stain glass."