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I have steins by Avon and Anheuser Bush (Bud steins, both holiday and general), ice buckets (by various glass manufacturers including West Bend Penguin ice buckets), ashtrays (primarily casinos like Harrah's, Mapes, Harold's Club and the like) and anything else I associate with a bar. Glassware is listed under our glassware category.

Americana Art China Company

The Americana Art China Company is located in Sebring, Ohio. Although they produce a variety of wares, they specialize in custom pottery and glass and have been in business since 1949.

Anchor Hocking

Anchor Hocking Company was born of a merger of the Hocking Glass Company and Anchor Cap & Closure Corporation in 1937. The company is still in production today as a divison of Global Home Products with its headquarters located in Lancaster, Ohio. You will find items from their very popular Fire King line listed separately. Look for items under dinnerware, barware, houseware, kitchenware and glassware.

Anheuser Busch

Anheuser Busch Brewing Company, famous for Budweiser Beer and the Clydesdale horses has been making various items associated with its products for years. I carry most of their Holiday Budweiser Beer Steins featuring the famous Clydesdales as well as other special steins. The steins themselves are made in Brazil. I also have the Budweiser Frog Glasses. Look for these items under barware.

Avon

Starting in 1886 as the California Perfume Company, Avon has grown to be one of the country's largest home-to-home selling businesses. In fact, today it is the world's largest manufacturer and distributor of cosmetics, perfumes and costume jewelry. Their beer steins can be found in Barware. I carry other items in Dinnerware, Housewares, Glassware and Miscellanous.

Cambridge Glass Company

The Cambridge Glass Company operated in Cambridge, Ohio from 1901 until 1957. Their pieces are very popular with collectors. You'll find this Alpine ice bucket under Barware. You'll find Caprice pieces under Glassware.

Ceramarte

Ceramarte is a Brazilian manufacturer. I don't know their entire line of products but we do know that they make beer steins for a wide variety of companies, including Budweiser. The Bud steins are listed under Anheuser Busch in Barware.

Coors Brewery

Coors Brewery is located in the mountains of Golden Colorado.

Cris d'Arques/Durand

Cris de'Arques is one of the brand names of ARC International (Luminarc, Mikasa and the Durand Glass Manufacturing Company and others). Cris d'Arques specializes in 24% lead crystal glassware.

Culver Glass

Culver Glass Company was an American glass manufacturer. The glassware was very popular in the 1950s and remains so to this day for many collectors. This glassware is getting harder and harder to find in very good or execellent condition. Too many people are putting it in their dishwashers - the shame of it!!! I have also found that not all pieces bear the Culver name. The signed Valencia pattern differs slighty from the unsigned. Many pieces were probably only marked with paper labels.

Federal Glass

The Federal Glass Company was located in Columbus, Ohio and was one of the major producers of "Depression Glass". It was eventually purchased by Lancaster Colony. Look under Glassware and Kitchenware to find their products. I have quite a few pieces in the Winsor pattern.

Hall China

The Hall China Company is located in East Liverpool, Ohio. It has been in business since founded on August 14, 1903. Dinnerware production has been sporatic, however. The company produced dinnerware from 1908 to 1911 and then stopped until 1936. The company is probably most well-known for producing the Jewel Tea Autumn Leaf pattern.

Hazel Atlas

The Hazel Atlas Glass Company began in 1902 and was first located in Washington, Pennsylvania. Eventually, the company grew and had a number of different plants. Over the years pieces of the company were sold off to other manufacturers. Its final demise came in 1987.

L. G. Wright Glass Company

The L. G. Wright Glass Company was a distributor of glassware manufactured by other companies such as Fenton, Fostoria, Morgantown, etc. but produced on L. G. Wright's own molds. For this reason, and the fact that paper labels were used, it is sometimes extremely difficult to tell who manufactured a given piece. L. G. Wright Glass closed in 1999. When the plant closed, many of the molds were sold to Japanese firms who are now manufacturing reproductions but the colors and weight of the items are not the same as the originals.

Maurice Ceramics of California

Maurice of California began sometime in the 1960s and produced a wide variety of ceramic items including lazy susans, vases, cookie jars, ashtray, etc. These items are beginning to gain in popularity but are not easily found. I think the company dissolved sometime in the late 1980s/early 1990s but have been unable to confirm that.

Michter's Distillery

Michter's Distillery was established in 1753 and is located in Schafferstown, PA. They are known for ther "Pot Still" whiskey.

Miller Brewing Company

The Miller Brewing Company is located in Milwaukee, Wisconsin.

Pabst Brewery

Pabst Brewery is located in Milwaukee, Wisconsin.

Shulton

Shulton is the producer of Old Spice men's products. The containers themselves were produced by other manufacturers and were either filled with or accompanied Shulton's products. You can find Old Spice shaving mugs listed under their manufacturers, predominently here as Wheaton Glass.

Smith Glass Co.

The Smith Glass Co.(L. E. Smith) is one of several that produced items in the Moon and Stars and Daisy and Button patterns. The pieces are easily confused with L. G. Wright's.

Spode

Spode is one of the better known, high-quality china producers of England. The company has roots going back to the 1700s when Josiah Spode began developing his fine bone china.

Stangl

Stangl Pottery was begun by J. Martin Stangl around 1930 when he bought the Fulper Pottery Company in New Jersey. However, the company name did not change until 1955 when it actually became Stangl Pottery. Stangl Pottery was purchased by Pfaltzgraff in 1978 and the Stangl lines ceased.

Tamac

Tamac Pottery was located in Perry, Oklahoma. The company started in the mid 1940s and ran until 1973. They were known for making dinnerware, teapots, vases and ashtrays in a somewhat "freeform" style.

Unknown Barware

Pieces listed here could have been made by several manufacturers. When I'm not sure which, I err on the side of caution and list them as unknown.

Vernonware

Vernonware began with Poxon China in 1916, located in Vernon, California. Later, in 1928, it became Vernon Potteries or Vernon Kilns. The company was bought out by Metlox in 1958 and became a division of Metlox. I have pieces from over 50 different patterns including some of the hard-to-find patterns such as Winchester 73 and the souveneir specialty plates of various landmarks, cities and states.

West Bend

The West Bend Company began as West Bend Aluminum Company in 1911 in West Bend, Wisconsin. Since that time, they have been producing various types of cookware. The name changed to West Bend Company in 1961. They are still one of the top U.S. producers of cookware.