Direct to the Consumer Reference Book: Promotional Premium Glassware

Normal 0 false false false EN-US X-NONE X-NONE Direct to the Consumer: Labels, Packaging and Premium Glassware, 1900s-1960s. ISBN: 979-8-9883853-6-3. This collection showcases glassware with original labels, in original packages, with original contents or that were given away as free premiums. Originally designed to show depression era glassware, earlier and later period glassware pieces are also shown. In addition, several other advertising pieces have been included. Among the many well-known brands represented are Silex, Fire-King ovenglass, Kellogg's, Sealtest cottage cheese, Big Top peanut butter, Jif, Crystal Wedding oats, Akro Agate, McKee Glasbake, Kraft cheese spreads, and many more that are now all but forgotten. Much of the glassware shown was manufactured by Hazel-Atlas, but other companies such as Akro Agate, Jeannette, Imperial, Cambridge, Fostoria, and Dell also appear. There are also many character promotional pieces, including Davy Crockett, Hopalong Cassidy, L'il Abner, Shirley Temple, and Ranger Joe. Specialized collectors will be impressed by the pages devoted to glass knives, children's play dishes, spice sets and other kitchen ware. This book is a treasure trove of nostalgia for both the beginning and advanced collector of American glass. Published by the Glass Flakes Press. Coil bound with laminated covers. 149 pages. Includes hundreds of illustrations. This book is a part of a much larger project to place glass information not in archival storage boxes but in the hands of students, collectors, and dealers in glass. Only by sharing can we make the necessary leaps in learning, as we all bring some piece of the puzzle. The West Virginia Museum of American Glass (WVMAG), a non-profit organization, is committed to sharing glass information and from that conviction this Monograph Series was born. If you are a member of WVMAG (at the $35.00 or above level), you will be refunded $4.00 from the price of this book after payment. About the West Virginia Museum of American Glass, Ltd. (WVMAG) The West Virginia Museum of American Glass, Ltd. is a non-profit museum with a mission to share the diverse and rich heritage of glass as a product and historical object as well as telling of the lives of glass workers, their families and communities, and of the tools and machines they used in glass houses. WVMAG, Ltd. is located in Weston, West Virginia. The Museum includes representative samples of all glass products...from bottles to lightening rod balls, from telegraph insulators to glass used in automobiles, from pressed to blown tableware. We preserve the history of the places and people who made these products. Our Museum examines the rich history of some of America's most famous glass factories, while at the same time carefully understanding the impact that the hundreds of smaller and often time forgotten glass houses made on the history of the glass industry. The WVMAG displays many of the diverse and beautiful objects produced by factories during the past century. The museum attempts to compare and contrast similar pieces produced by once competing companies. No other public collection offers such contrasts on a large scale. Powered by eBay Turbo Lister The free listing tool. List your items fast and easy and manage your active items.