Come along with my for my first time at the 46th Vintage and Collectible Glass Show & Sale at the Cobb County Civic Center!
Since this was my first time at this show (or any glass show to be completely honest), I wasn’t sure what to expect in the way of vendors or glass types. My personal interests lean more toward mid century glassware (aka cocktail glasses and the like) which didn’t have a very large presence here, but I appreciate art glass in most any form so I still really enjoyed looking around.
Culver
Fenton
Georges Briard
I was a little bummed this set of four old fashioneds in a black and gold confetti design were the only Georges Briard cocktail glasses we saw — but on a win, my friend bought them and now has his first set of mid-century cocktail glasses!
The same dealer also had this really cool Georges Briard gold metal coffee urn and a few glass trays.
Heisey
This was my first time hearing of Heisey Glass and Richard, the dealer, was so kind to take extra time to give us some backstory on the Heisey family + the history of the company.
Richard saw us looking at the stunning purplish pieces pictured below and told us that the color is called Alexandrite. It’s the most expensive color Heisey made for a couple reasons (1) because it’s made with gold added into the color formula and (2) they didn’t make that many pieces in this color because of the cost.
The pictures of Alexandrite below don’t do the color justice so you’ll have to see it for yourself to understand the true beauty of this stunning glass. It was so cool because it changed colors/tints depending on how the light hit it as you moved. Sometimes it looked more pinkish, sometimes more blueish, sometimes more purplish. I’d say seeing this stunning glass in person should be on your glass bucket list, if that’s a thing.
Viking
Cool story about the 8-fingered green console dish stickered below right as a “candle centerpiece” … I have one of these in my personal collection from a recent Goodwill trip. I didn’t see any marks on it to indicate a maker and the Google image search I did at the time didn’t give me any insight as to who it was by, but I loved the color and shape and I didn’t have anything like it, so it made it’s way into my personal collection rather than the Etsy shop. I always thought it was a fruit bowl or something like that, but since seeing it was marked as a “candle centerpiece” at the show, I did another Google search and found more examples of it (including this one if you’re interested in adding it to your collection too!).
Misc Glass Displays
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