Author: Vintage Green Antiques

Complete guide to antique jewelry identification, eras (Georgian through Art Deco), hallmarks, stone cuts, authentication, and current values. Covers rings, brooches, necklaces, bracelets, cameos, Bakelite, and signed costume jewelry.

Antique silverware is one of the most widely inherited and actively collected categories in all of antiques. Millions of American households have sets of silver flatware, serving pieces, and hollowware passed down through generations — and most owners have no idea whether they have sterling silver worth hundreds of dollars or silver-plated pieces worth far…

Antique pottery is one of America’s most popular collecting categories, with millions of pieces changing hands each year at estate sales, antique shows, and online auctions. Whether you inherited a piece with an unfamiliar mark, spotted something promising at a flea market, or are building a focused collection, this guide covers everything you need to…

Antique glass is one of the most widely collected categories of Americana, spanning three centuries of American and European glassmaking. From Depression-era pressed glass worth $5 to rare Tiffany Studios lampshades worth $150,000, understanding how to identify and value antique glass can mean the difference between a bargain find and a costly mistake. This guide…

Antique china is among the most widely inherited and collected categories of household antiques. Millions of American families have sets passed down from grandparents, and millions more encounter china at estate sales, thrift stores, and auction houses without knowing what they have or what it is worth. This guide covers everything you need to identify…

Depression glass is the quintessential American collectible — mold-pressed colored glassware produced by the millions during the Great Depression (1929–1939) and sold for pennies or given away free in flour sacks and oatmeal boxes. Today, certain pieces command hundreds or even thousands of dollars at antique shows and online auctions. This guide covers everything you…

Antique bottles are among the most accessible and rewarding collectibles in America. Blown from molds in the 1800s and early 1900s, these glass vessels were made for medicines, bitters, whiskeys, poisons, inks, and dozens of other uses. Today a common dug bottle sells for a few dollars, while a rare color or pontil-scarred bitters bottle…

Fostoria Glass Company produced some of the most collectible American glass of the twentieth century. Founded in 1887 in Fostoria, Ohio (then relocated to Moundsville, West Virginia), Fostoria operated for nearly a century before closing in 1986 — and the glassware it made during those 99 years is among the most actively traded vintage glass…

Hall China is one of America’s most beloved vintage kitchenware brands, produced since 1903 in East Liverpool, Ohio. From iconic teapots in dozens of shapes to the famous Autumn Leaf pattern made exclusively for Jewel Tea, Hall China pieces are actively collected worldwide. This guide covers identification marks, pattern dating, current values, and the most…