E.C. Flaccus Co. of Wheeling, West Virginia, created this dish, 'The American Hen,' about 1898, of pressed milk glass.

Milk glass was very popular just after the Civil War, and hundreds of different kinds of pieces were made. Perhaps the most popular with collectors are figural covered dishes. These dishes ...

The bright white milk glass bud vase that has stood quietly on your mother’s kitchen shelf since the 1950s is actually an object with a history that dates to the Italian Renaissance era.