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Links to other Glass sites

Here are some other web sites which contain useful information for the collector of Depression Era glassware. If you find a site that interests you, click on the underlined title and you'll be taken to the site. You can use your browser's "back" button to return to Our House Antiques.

National Organizations for Collectors
National Depression Glass Association
a National organization for collectors of both "Elegant" and regular Depression Glass. There are several good articles on Depression Glass on this site. The NDGA Annual Convention and Sale is held in a different city every year, and is a must attend.
National Cambridge Collectors, Inc.
A "must join" group for serious collectors of Cambridge glassware. They sponsor a museum, have a monthly newsletter, and they also offer excellent books for sale on various topics related to Cambridge glass.
Fostoria Glass Collectors, Inc.
This is the Fostoria club for Southern California, although you can join from anywhere in the country. Their newsletter is first class, well worth the price of membership, and they have monthly meetings all over Southern California. The web site is fairly new, but there is a lot of information there. Try it.
The Fostoria Glass Society of America
This is the National organization for Fostoria collectors. Good information on new "American" pattern pieces, a monthly newsletter and an annual convention in Moundsville, WV. Books available here, too.
Heisey Collectors of America, Inc.
The National organization for Heisey collectors. They sponsor a yearly convention, have a wonderful museum, and a monthly newsletter. If you're a Heisey collector, you should visit this site. Books available.
Imperial Glass Collectors
The National organization for collectors of Imperial Glass. If this is the company that made your pattern, you should visit and consider joining the organization.
Pacific Northwest Fenton Association
One of three National clubs officially recognized by Fenton. This one is closest to our home, and they sponsor a wonderful show, once a year, and an excellent Convention held annualy in June.
National Duncan Glass Society, Inc.
This site is the home page for the National organization for collectors of glass made by the Duncan and Miller Glass Company. You should consider joining this group if your pattern was made by Duncan and Miller.
Glass Museums
The West Virginia Museum of American Glass
This is the home page for the West Virginia Museum of American Glass. More than simply being a museum, these folks also produce some very useful printed material, including some catalog reprints from glass companies that we know very little about. There's one on Central Glass, and another which is the 1944 Lotus Glass Company catalog. Be sure to visit the site and poke around.
Historical Glass Museum, Redlands, CA
Established in 1976, in Redlands, CA, this museum was created to preserve specimens from American glass factories which were becoming extinct. The museum houses glass of all types from American manufacturers.
Miscellaneous Sites of Interest
The Fenton Art Glass Company
This is the home page for the Fenton factory. One of the few remaining Glass Companies still producing glassware in the USA. Map to the Factory, all kinds of useful information. Worth a visit, for sure.
The Flower Frog Gazette (www.flowerfrog.com)
A really neat page for collectors of any type of flower frog, not just the Cambridge type that we feature. Lots of good information here. There's even a list of other flower frog collectors so you can share ideas and maybe even swap pieces. The owner of the site is the author of a fantastic book on flower frogs.
A Depression Glass and China MEGASHOW
This is a wonderful "virtual" Glass Show. Nineteen of the Nation's finest glass dealers, all of whom have excellent reputations and great merchandise. There is a "want list" which you can use to send your wishes to all of the dealers at once! They have a calendar of upcoming Glass Shows all across the country!
Some more links of interest

These are our own pages, and are works in progress.

Figural Flower Frog identification
We're working on this page which will describe the various types of Cambridge figural flower frogs and some pieces made after Cambridge went out of business, by various other companies, from original and modified Cambridge molds.
Common pattern identification
A page which will eventually contain many of the etched (and some non-etched) depression-era elegant glass patterns, for easy identification without having to purchase a book.
Similar and easily mistaken Patterns
An attempt to present patterns which are often mistaken for one another, and which are often made by different companies altogether.