While thrift stores can bring a lot of promise, this particular kind of glass item could bring a bigger financial surprise ...

Low-cost molded or pressed glass with an iridescent finish had many names in the very early 20th century. First sold as inexpensive molded and pressed decorative wares, at a time when fine glass ...

Shimmering carnival glass adds a stunning display piece to your home. Learn how to identify authentic carnival glass pieces if you find them in thrift stores.

According to Novak, most people associate uranium glass with the Depression Glass of the 1920s and ’30s, but this glass has ...

Randy Clark of the Dexter City Auction Gallery in Dexter City, Ohio, holds the Peoples Vase to be auctioned on Nov. 30. The rare piece of carnival glass will bring in from $110,000 to $140,000, he ...

Iridescent carnival glass came about when a number of American firms started making inexpensive imitations of the now-antique, handmade art glass you see regularly valued on The Antiques Roadshow.

A. Your carnival glass set is in the “Peacock at the Fountain” pattern, which was made by the Northwood Glass company, founded by Harry Northwood in Wheeling, West Virginia, in 1902.

Carnival glass started out being cheap -- so cheap that it was given away as prizes and premiums. Today, rare pieces can still bring prices at auction in the low thousands.

Carnival glass collectors belong to the International Carnival Glass Association, which offers an annual membership and quarterly publication for $10 from Route 1, Box 14, Mentone, Ind. 46539.

Carnival glass started as a game prize By the 1920s, carnival glass had emerged with its own appealing iridescence.

Three terms are easily confused: pressed glass, Carnival glass and Depression glass. Pressed, shorthand for impressed by stamping, refers to a method of stamping a pattern in hot glass.