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Summary: An antiques expert explains collecting ruby flash glass tableware, including pieces and what to look for, in this free video on antique collecting.
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About the Expert
Sue Shea Sue Shea has been dealing in antiques since 1979, and has her own shop, Shea Antiques, located in Shelburne Falls, MA. Her passion is early American 18th & 19... read more
So when talking about ruby flash glass where the tableware there's a huge variety that you can collect at home and maybe want to collect a whole dinnerware sets so that you can set your tables. Some people like to collect the ruby glass and it entirety and maybe you just want to the water and pitcher. Or maybe you want to collect the partial set you can easily collect the water goblet and the tumbler and they also come in shapes and wine, small little wines in cherry glasses. Those are a variety of tableware just glassware that you can collect that's just for drinking. And you can get into the plates there's varying sizes and shapes and patterns in plates also you can find that there's actually these mugs that you can collect of the same period. You'll find that you can find the sugar bowls the covered sugar bowl here and you'll find these also without the covers on them. You can also find down here that this is a butter dish covered and you can also find some examples of the missing cover that happens also. You can find varying sizes of souvenirs toothpick holders that kind of thing you can put on your table, you'll also find here's an example of a sugar bowl missing the cover. But you'll also see varying sizes the pitchers milk pitchers water pitchers that come with the matching cups and goblets that go with them. So you'll find this type of tableware also we have small candy dishes and one example of a little one little berry type dish. We also have little cups in varying sizes little small water cups here, and another example here to is the spooner and this is a little bit different in pattern. A lot of people like to put there spoon in them and put them on the table to display them that way. So there's an endless way to collect this if you want to collect the whole dinnerware or you just want to collect spooners or you just want to collect berry bowl. I mean it's all up to you and there's a wide variety of selection out there so you need to look in your book and see what's available so that's a little bit of examples of different types of tableware you can collect in ruby.