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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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.

Indiana Glass Company was born at the turn of the century, as were many of the depression glass companies, The parent company had originally been Beatty-Brady Glass, which merged with National Glass Combine. When National Glass fell on hard times in 1907, Indiana Glass came into new hands – those of Frank Merry who would remain the key figure in creating beautiful blown and pressed glassware.

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Indiana Glass Patterns
Avocado (also known as Sweet Pear)
Horseshoe (also known as No. 612)
Indiana Custard (also known as Floral and Leaf Band)
Lorain (also known as Basket)
Old English (also known as Threading)
Pineapple and Floral (also known as Number 618)
Pyramid
Sandwich
Tea Room
Vernon (also known as No. 616)

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