GLASSIES: Depression Glass Pattern Help Pls :)

Hi all! Happy Monday!

I’ve been looking everywhere for this pattern. It looks like what someone called Anchor Hocking Crackle, but I cannot find it elsewhere. It isn’t the LE Smith Crackle Pattern. Any other ideas for me? As always, thanks for your help. PS it is 10” in diameter.

 

Try Tree of Life. Can't remember who made it though.

 

Made by Imperial.
Don

 

TA! you're awesome as usual!!

 

Picking another nit, Imperial is not known as making 'depression glass,' although they were in production during the Depression. They always made handmade glass. Or isn't the distinction that Depression Glass was machine made?

 

I'm honestly not sure. I have always assumed that Depression glass was anything produced during the Depression years (roughly the 1930's and early 1940's). I wasn't aware there was a distinction between handmade and machine made as regards depression glass but that may very well be ignorance on my part.
Don

 

Fostoria, Central, Heisey and others all made glass during that time, no one calls their wares "Depression Glass." If anything it might be Elegant Glass made during the Depression.

 

I distinguish elegant as a subset of depression, and refer to depression because of the era. Is this correct?

 

Thank you. I recognize the difference now. Florence makes the distinction as Depression Glass and Elegant Glassware of the Depression Era in his book titles. I just never caught the distinction. Oddly enough I do seem to have followed the distinction when listing items for sale. Somehow I must have internalized the distinction without realizing it.
Don

 

"Depression Glass," as it is known today, is, as my mother used to remind me (constantly) a 'lesser' glass. The fact that much, if not most of it, is just lovely is notwithstanding the fact that if you drop it, it will probably tend to break more quickly than Fostoria, Heisey, etc. It could be made cheaply, given away at the local cinema or gas stations to draw people in when money was scarce, and collected in sets and by color.

"Elegant Glass," made during the same time, often used the same, or very similar, patterns and molds -- but usually one can tell one from the other: by weight, variations in color, shape, etc.

Elegant glass or depression glass, either kind can set a marvelous table!

 

Telling you about me, after studying and collecting Heisey for about 45 years, I shudder when someone equates Elegant glass with Depression glass. Just my opinion.

 

Hazel Marie Weatherman wrote the first books on depression era glassware. In her book, Colored Glassware of the Depression Era 2, which many considered at the time to be the "bible" on Depression Era glass, she includes all glass companies. Anchor, Jeanette, Fry, Heisey, Fenton, Hazel Atlas, etc.

Gene Florence started writing books on depression glass. In order to sell more books, he is the one who divided the glass into Depression and Elegant Glass of the Depression Era.

 

My own opinion, glass made during the depression era, be it kitchen glass or better quality glass is still Depression Era Glass.