While King’s Crown Glassware is generally considered a “40s50s60s” pattern, it has a long history and was made for many years by several different glass companies. It can be very confusing!!

King’s Crown was originally known as Thumbprint. It was first made by US Glass Company in the late 1800s. Tiffin Glass picked up the line after that and made it through the 1960s.

In the 1970s, Indiana Glass…

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40s 50s 60s Glassware, Pictures and Descriptions of Collectible Glass Patterns from the 1940s, 1950s and 1960s.

Tiffin Glass was founded in 1888 and eventually became owned by US Glass. Glassware made in the factory was called Tiffin, for it’s location – but there never was an actual “Tiffin Glass Company”.

Indiana Glass Company was formed in the early 1900s when Beatty-Brady Glass merged with National Glass Combine. The company closed for good in 2002 after a long worker’s strike.

Moon and Stars Glassware design is very popular in collecting because the glass was heavy and withstood the test of time relatively well. Moon and Stars is also called the Palace design and it originally appeared in the mid 1870s. Some say it was Abraham Lincoln’s favorite type of glassware.

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Called Beaded Edge by collectors, the official name of this Westmoreland pattern is “Pattern #2 Milk Glass”. Pieces were made plain & decorated. Some were also made with red edges. While there are not a lot of individual pieces in this pattern, there is a wide variety of different decorations that appeared on them, including many different flowers, fruits and foods.

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Buttercup Fostoria is the pattern Buttercup that was made by Fostoria from 1941 to 1960. Buttercup is a dainty etched pattern that was popular with brides in the 1940s and 1950s, but is not particularly well known.

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Cascade Cambridge, or the Glassware Pattern Cascade, was made byt the Cambridge Glass Company in the early 1950s. It is one of the last Cambridge patterns made before they closed in 1954.

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Cabochon Heisey – the Cabochon pattern was made by Heisey Glass in the 1950s. Collectors love its elegant simplicity.

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Alice FireKing was made by Anchor Hocking from 1945 to 1949. Only 12 pieces of the Alice pattern were made – a Dinner Plate and Cup and Saucer in four different colors. Because the cups and saucers were given away for free in oatmeal boxes, they are much easier to find than the dinner plates, which were sold.

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Fire King Restaurant Ware was made by Anchor Hocking from 1948 to 1967 for restaurants and mass feeding establishments.

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Petal Federal Glass was made by the Federal Glass Company from 1954 to 1979 in Clear, Sun Gold (Amber), Blue, Green, Gold Iridescent, Iridescent, Pink, Smoke Iridescent, Yellow.

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Fire-King Glassware is the brand name of heat resistant glass made by Anchor-Hocking from 1942 to the late 1970s. Fire-King is the brand name and it can be classified further by pattern and by color.

The Fire-King family of kitchenware includes Fire-King Oven Wear and Fire-King Restaurant Ware. There were also numerous Fire-King promotional and advertising items made throughout the years. Currently Fire-King (and especially Fire-King Mugs) are very popular collectibles.

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