vintage marigold carnival glasses with price tags - Adrienne Bresnahan/Getty Images Browsing your local secondhand shop is a great way to score unique, rare, and valuable items at unbelievably low ...

If there is a single material that plays an ornamental role in almost every home in America, it is glass. We all have some, whether in artwork, bowls, drinking vessels, pitchers, statuary, vases or a ...

Carnival glass shimmers with an iridescent, irresistible glow, and while it was once a dime-store staple, it has since become collectors’ treasure. Unlike depression glass, which is delicate and ...

Low-cost molded or pressed glass with an iridescent finish had many names in the very early 20th century. First sold as inexpensive molded and pressed decorative wares, at a time when fine glass was ...

Dear Helaine and Joe: My beautiful 93-year-old auntie gave me this bowl that was her mother’s. It is marked on the bottom with either an “N” or a “Z” in a circle. Can you provide some information on ...

Vintage glassware is flying off shelves and breaking auction records like never before. From delicate Depression glass to colorful carnival glass, collectors are paying top dollar for pieces once ...

Randy Clark, left, with Dexter City Auction Gallery, and Chris Sieverdes, right, founder of the Millersburg Glass Museum in Millersburg, Ohio, hold a rare carnival glass vase which sold for a record ...

Why they’re special: Carnival glass had its heyday around the turn of the last century. The Fenton Art Glass Co., which opened in 1905 in West Virginia, turned out thousands of pieces of the sparkly ...

Although a distinct kind of glassware from around 80 years ago, this stuff includes or resembles several other kinds of glass from about the same time. Collectors not only have all this to sort ...

It's a touchstone of mid-mod decorating and puts portable color in every room. Apart from its decorative value, antique and vintage glassware is also an enormous collectible category. The varieties ...

The big item in this month’s collectibles is an autograph book containing what appears to be the signature of Chief Joseph, a famous leader of Oregon’s Nez Perce Tribe. His story may be especially ...