Using a machine-blown glass technique, these delicate ornaments were made of lightweight ... What To Do With Your Vintage ...

and the modern versions carry none of the vintage value. But there are some tells. Fading, scratches and cracks often occur in blown glass ornaments of a certain age, their metal caps dulled by ...

From fragile Victorian hand-blown glass ornaments to the retro look of the 1960s, antique and vintage Christmas ornaments are increasingly popular as collectors try to recapture a moment from the ...

Propelled by visions of Christmases past, ornament collectors today search out antique ornaments ... Fragile threads of glass were transformed into tails or wings on blown-glass birds, skirts ...

Charles Beck, an artist who lives in Mount Airy, has been collecting antique Victorian Christmas ... Beck’s Christmas collection includes hand-blown glass ornaments, Santa candy boxes, angels ...

They were made of blown-glass beads strung into shapes ... As I would see other ornaments, I would want to know which vintage they were.” As DeHamer showed her collection, she spun a century ...

Arsenault collects vintage German Kugel ornaments — coloured glass balls, some with silvering ... "My mother had a set of small hand-blown ornaments from Germany that we were not allowed to ...

These Christmas tree ornaments feature a clear glass frame with a vintage stamp inside. Decorated with a gold-tone border, these ornaments come with a velvet top loop for easy hanging on your ...

On one particular buying trip to Germany in the 1970s, the Mercks were searching for an item to boost sales for the antique store and returned to the U.S. with several glass-blown ornaments.

A 75-year-old rare handmade glass Santa ornament is priced at $250, while a complete feather Christmas tree covered in antique ornaments is for sale for $1,550. In the main hallway, there are ...

PITTSBURGH (KDKA) -- A group of students put their creative skills to the test, with extreme temperatures and molten glass. "It's running at 2100 degrees. It's on 24-7, 365 days a year," Jon ...

Trading in the fall apple orchards for glass blown and glass fused ornaments, Hello Wisconsin is live with the Glass Orchard Tuesday morning.