As the name implies, Paden City Glass Manufacturing Company had its beginnings in Paden City, West Virginia in 1916. The focus of the company was pressed and molded, high quality glassware. David Fisher, formerly of New Martinsville Glass became the company’s first President (where he remained for the next 17 years until his death). After that David’s son continued running the company until they ceased production in 1951.

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Depression Glass features definitions and descritions as well as an A to Z list of patterns (commonly known as Adam to Windsor).  All 117 patterns have their own page with pictures, descriptions and information about the manufacturer, dates made and the colors and pieces made.  If you need help identifying a pattern, check out Depression Era Glass Identification

Mckee Glass Company is well-known in the glass making industry. Having originated in 1853 as McKee and Brothers Glass Works, McKee focused its efforts on quality crystal glassware. Unlike some operations at that juncture, McKee Glass Company could fill volume orders.

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The Lancaster Glass Company plant remains in operation today. While it is running under the name of Anchor Hocking, the plant is still in Lancaster Ohio where the company began. Anchor Hocking took over a major part of Lancaster Glass in the mid 1920s due to the depression (something that happened to many glass companies during the era).

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The Fenton Glass Company was founded in 1905 by two brothers and is still in operation today. They had one Depression Glass pattern and a number of popular pattersn in the 40s, 50s & 60s.

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The History of  Tiffin Glass Company, including Tiffin Glassware Patterns, form its founding in 1888 until its closure in the 1980s.

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The US Glass Company was founded in Tiffin Ohio in 1891 (this was the hand-worked glass site. The automated cite was in Gas City, In). 17 years later it had grown to a staggering size operating 11 plants with a working capital of over three million dollars.

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History of  The New Martinsville Glass Company – In 1901 glass companies were popping up all over the United States. The New Martinsville Glass Manufacturing Company was among them, establishing itself in West Virginia.

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The History of Depression Glass begins around the late 1920s and continues through the 1940s. The term Depression Glass is used to describe typically very colorful glassware that was produced during this period.

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Most Anchor Hocking Depression Glass was made by the Hocking Company prior to their merger with Anchor in 1937.

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Jeannette Glass Company, which is more often than not misspelled as Jeanette Glass Company, began in the late 1880s and created 14 Depression glass patterns that became collectible.

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