Books on Milk Glass
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Here is our selection of books on Milk glass or including sections on milk glass. Just click on any book cover or title for more information. 
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Milk Glass is a term used by glass-makers for opaque white glass. The German term is milch-glass, the Italian term is lattimo (from latte, milk) and the French term is blanc-de-lait (milk white) or verre-de-lait. It looks like white porcelain. It was first made in Venice in the 14th or 15th century, and later in just about every country that made glass. The opaque white colour is usually made with tin oxide. During the 17th and 18th centuries it was very popular, and during that period it was often decorated with enamel painting. Semi-opaque white glass was also made using ashes of calcined bones. and this kind of glass is called by names such as opal, opaline, or milk-and -water glass. During the 19th and 20th centuries a great deal of pressed, opaque, white glass has been made, and this was often given names like vitro- porcelain (in England) or porcellein- glass (in Germany). This is the kind of white glass that is usually collected by milk glass collectors. The same manufacturers often made other colors in the same patterns, especially blue, and this has given rise to some glass experts applying the term "milk glass" to other colours in opaque glass. I shall abide by the pure interpretation of the term that dictates milk glass must look like milk! It has to be opaque and white. There are only a few books specialising in milk glass, but the collector can find very useful information in books about the companies that made milk glass. Look in any book on Fenton glass, Kemple glass, or Westmoreland glass and you will find sections on milk glass. Good hunting!
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Kemple Glass: 1945-1970 (Apr 97) by John Burkholder and Thomas O'Conner. Kemple Glass made superb quality milk glass using mostly Victorian molds that were originally used for pressed crystal glass. They can be identified by the trademark K. Collectors Encyclopedia of Milk Glass (Feb 95) by Betty and John Newbound. An identification and value guide. Hundreds of coloured pictures and extensive catalogue pages make this an invaluable book for the collector. Fenton Glass: the 1980's Decade (July 96) by James Measell. 170 pages of detailed information about the people, the company, and the glass they made during the 1980's. The book has 80 pages of coloured photographs featuring hundreds of items, plus a price guide. Fenton make excellent milk glass, and according to Frank Fenton they have made almost every one of their moulds in milk glass at some time in their history (since they started making glass in Williamstown in 1907). Fenton Glass: the Third 25 years with 1995-6 price guide (May 89) by William Heacock, who was persuaded to write this book by Frank Fenton. 158 pages cover the history of the company from 1956 to 1980, with photos and stories about the people who worked for Fenton, and 40 pages of coloured photographs. There are reproductions of catalogue pages and a detailed price guide. The Milk Glass Book (October 1998) by Frank Chiarenza and James Alexander Slater. The latest book available on milk glass. Value Guide to Westmoreland Glass (June 96) by Charles West Wilson. This company made very fine milk glass and coloured glass for nearly a hundred years, from 1889 to 1985 (when it closed). other kinds of glass American glass books Art Deco books Art nouveau books Bottles books British Glass books Candy Container books Carnival Glass books Cookie Jar books Cut glass books Czech glass books Depression glass bks Drinking glass books European Glass bks Fenton Glass Books Fostoria Glass Books French glass books Gene Florence books General glass books Glass-making/working Italian Glass books Glass Marbles books Milk Glass books Paperweight books Scandinavian glass Stained glass books Stemware books
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