vintage marigold carnival glasses with price tags - Adrienne Bresnahan/Getty Images Browsing your local secondhand shop is a great way to score unique, rare, and valuable items at unbelievably low ...

If there is a single material that plays an ornamental role in almost every home in America, it is glass. We all have some, whether in artwork, bowls, drinking vessels, pitchers, statuary, vases or a ...

Dear Doug: Here’s a picture of a tumbler and pitcher set which was given to my aunt by her fiancé in 1920. It is ruby in color and is in mint condition. Since it is carnival glass, I doubt if there is ...

Although a distinct kind of glassware from around 80 years ago, this stuff includes or resembles several other kinds of glass from about the same time. Collectors not only have all this to sort ...

This fancy little item sits squarely at the intersection of two popular camps of collectibles: carnival glass and hatpins. Manufactured by the Northwood glass company, this carnival glass hatpin ...

Carnival glass is pressed glass, meaning that hot molten glass which may or may not contain colour of its own is poured into metal moulds and conforms to their shape. Carnival glass is pressed glass, ...

Here’s how Venice, Rio de Janeiro, Trinidad and Tobago, New Orleans, and Quebec City mark the pre-Lenten season Elizabeth Djinis - History Correspondent In 18th-century Venice, Carnival masks created ...

Performers at the Notting Hill Carnival in London last year Notting Hill Carnival returns to west London this August bank holiday for the 55th year. Carnival is one of the longest running street ...