Antique Milk Glass

The term “Vaseline Glass” is usually used as a synonym for Uranium Glass, a type of pale-green, or yellow green glass produced by firing with small amount of uranium oxide.

Here are a few examples from Ebay.

Vaseline Opalescent Glass Hen Salt Dip Cellar Chicken US $9.95 (0 Bid) End Date: Thursday Nov-20-2008 20:17:00 PST Bid now | Buy it now | Add to watch list

Exciting Murano Italian Vaseline Glass Mandarin Figure US $20.00 (0 Bid) End Date: Thursday Nov-20-2008 20:24:42 PST Bid now | Add to watch list

Vaseline Glass Toothpick Holder Vase Cut Match Uranium US $9.95 (0 Bid) End Date: Thursday Nov-20-2008 20:26:00 PST Bid now | Buy it now | Add to watch list

VINTAGE PIN BROOCH Van Dell 12K GF Vaseline Glass RS US $15.48 (4 Bids) End Date: Thursday Nov-20-2008 20:28:28 PST Bid now | Add to watch list

Vaseline Carnival Glass Butterfly Mint or Ring Dish US $15.95 (0 Bid) End Date: Thursday Nov-20-2008 20:29:00 PST Bid now | Add to watch list

VASELINE URANIUM GLASS TALL PONEY HORSE ART DECO L@@K US $16.95 (0 Bid) End Date: Thursday Nov-20-2008 20:29:12 PST Bid now | Add to watch list

Here’s an interesting article from the Press of Atlantic City

Question: The covered milk glass cream pitcher and sugar bowl shown in my photographs were purchased at a Delaware thrift shop. They are 5 inches high, approximately 5 ½ inches wide and in perfect condition. Both pieces are marked with the intertwined W and G that I have drawn. I would be interested in knowing who made the set as well as its value and age. - B. H., Port Republic

Answer: The logo you provided was used by the Westmoreland Glass Co. of Grapeville, Ohio. Founded as the Westmoreland Specialty Co. in 1889, the firm became the Westmoreland Glass Co. in 1924 and used the logo you drew from 1949 until 1984, when the factory closed.

Your lidded set’s molds, featuring graceful swans nesting in bulrushes, were created by Westmoreland Specialty Co. at the turn of the last century. The pieces were part of a milk glass Swan line of table items that included covered celery vases, toothpick holders and salt cellars. A similar set with basket weave base was produced in blue milk glass.

Interest in milk glass was revived following WW II when Colonial-style architecture and interior décor were popular, and Westmoreland re-introduced the Swan line, hens-on-nests and other early milk glass objects that had enjoyed success. Known as Late Swan, your pieces are somewhat heavier and less opalescent than their early counterparts. However, a set with both lids intact will attract avid milk glass collectors who cheerfully pay $60 to $75 to own a perfect pair of Westmoreland swans.

And here are a few other milk glass swans to satisfy your collecting urges.

Vintage BLUE MILK GLASS NESTING SWAN Trinket Box US $9.99 (0 Bid) End Date: Friday Nov-21-2008 13:19:17 PST Bid now | Add to watch list

5 Macbeth Evans Swan Song Art Deco Milk glass bowl dish US $5.99 (1 Bid) End Date: Friday Nov-21-2008 13:23:38 PST Bid now | Add to watch list

OLD Milk Glass Swan on Basket Covered Dish US $8.99 (0 Bid) End Date: Saturday Nov-22-2008 4:32:50 PST Bid now | Add to watch list

Gorgeous MilkGlass Vase/ 3 Swans, 3 Panels, Cattails.. US $9.99 (0 Bid) End Date: Saturday Nov-22-2008 22:28:34 PST Bid now | Add to watch list

Vintage Imperial Milk Glass Swan US $1.99 (0 Bid) End Date: Sunday Nov-23-2008 6:41:55 PST Bid now | Add to watch list

Here are a few of the better antique milk glass auctions currently taking place.

Antique FOSTORIA Hand Painted Floral Milk Glass Ewer US $75.00 (0 Bid) End Date: Thursday Nov-20-2008 21:01:04 PST Bid now | Add to watch list

LOT-129 Antique&Vintage ART DECO GLASS BUTTONS-CUT-MILK US $26.00 (14 Bids) End Date: Friday Nov-21-2008 7:21:07 PST Bid now | Add to watch list

2 Antique Milk Glass Floral w/ Pillars Shabby sheik US $27.99 (0 Bid) End Date: Friday Nov-21-2008 9:44:11 PST Bid now | Add to watch list

**ANTIQUE GLASS SHADES** Milkglass US $150.00 (0 Bid) End Date: Friday Nov-21-2008 11:00:52 PST Bid now | Add to watch list

Pair~ANTIQUE~White-Depression~Milk~GLASS~CANDLE Holder! US $65.00 End Date: Friday Nov-21-2008 11:13:55 PST Buy it now | Add to watch list

MILKGLASS RHINESTONE PENDANT MULTIFACETED STAR ANTIQUE US $49.00 End Date: Friday Nov-21-2008 17:40:03 PST Buy it now | Add to watch list

ANTIQUE SIGNED MILK GLASS VASE GREEN WHITE GOLD PAINTED US $150.00 End Date: Friday Nov-21-2008 17:47:37 PST Buy it now | Add to watch list

Antique Oil Lamp w/Milk Glass Base 1860-70 US $38.00 (4 Bids) End Date: Friday Nov-21-2008 19:27:41 PST Bid now | Add to watch list

Antique Victorian 16"Large Milkglass Fixture shade Mint US $25.00 End Date: Friday Nov-21-2008 21:33:58 PST Buy it now | Add to watch list

Rare Antique Early Fenton Art Glass Clear to Milk Bowl US $49.99 (0 Bid) End Date: Saturday Nov-22-2008 9:30:26 PST Bid now | Add to watch list

Pressed glass is a type of glass invented in 1825 by American inventor John Bakewell, who devised a way to press molten glass into molds, thus great increasing the rate at which glass objects could be produced.

Most milk glass of the late 19th and early 20th centuries was produced by this method.

Antique FOSTORIA Hand Painted Floral Milk Glass Ewer US $75.00 (0 Bid) End Date: Thursday Nov-20-2008 21:01:04 PST Bid now | Add to watch list

11" VICTORIAN PINK MILK GLASS HAND DECORATED VASE-c1880 US $220.00 (0 Bid) End Date: Friday Nov-21-2008 10:25:41 PST Bid now | Add to watch list

Milk Glass Cow Butter Covered Dish Vallerysthal 1880's US $196.00 End Date: Friday Nov-21-2008 10:40:42 PST Buy it now | Add to watch list

**ANTIQUE GLASS SHADES** Milkglass US $150.00 (0 Bid) End Date: Friday Nov-21-2008 11:00:52 PST Bid now | Add to watch list

LOT OF 4 VINTAGE FIRE KING MILK GLASS SNOOPY MUGS US $75.00 (0 Bid) End Date: Friday Nov-21-2008 11:08:53 PST Bid now | Buy it now | Add to watch list