Early American Pressed Glass
As glass collectors we like to shop on Ebay, but finding the items we are looking for takes to long. Sellers have gotten clever about "keyword spamming" and fill their titles with words designed to attract viewers even though the listing is not relevant. I don't understand why a seller would think that tricking me into looking at his irrelevant listing would be a good thing, but it happens.,
We have gradually developed search strings that eliminate the dreck and allow us to only see listings of interest. It's not a perfect system, but it does cut down on the number of listings we have to read through to find items in which were are genuinely interested. This site is our effort to share these techniques.
EAPG is the "Hub" for a series of specialty collector websites. Each of these "Spoke" sites has pages which return Ebay listings for VERY specific searches. We have tried to make the search results return only items in which the collector would be interested. Listed below are these sub sites. Clicking the link on the one(s) that fit your interests will take you there to begin your searching.
Art Glass is such a broad search term as to be almost useless for finding specific items on Ebay.
Bischoff Glass was one of many West Virginia Mouth Blown Glass Companies that has now gone out of business. Their products are actively traded on Ebay.
Blenko Glass was a famous West Virginia glass maker that is very collectible.
Blown Glass is a "catch all" term that may bring up many "Sleepers". Glass blowers seldom marked their products so there are many items for sale where the item is obviously hand blown, but the maker is unknown. If you are educated about handblown glass there is a good chance of spotting an item for sale cheap from a clueless seller.
Carnival Glass is very popular and very reproduced. Buyer beware.
Cased Glass was made by many of the handblown glass companies in a variety of colors and styles.
Cranberry Glass is popular because of the color and the gold.
Custard Glass is also called Uranium Glass and was a popular tourist item in the 1930's. The markings on the glass may easily have more value than the glass itself.
Cruets are frequently made from fancy pressed or pattern glass and are very collectible.
Depression Glass is extremely popular with Ebay showing 10,000 or more auctions. Our site has automatic searches for the most popular depression glass categories.
Fenton Glass is still in business with a museum located in Ohio, and very collectible
Flint Glass is an example of Early American Pressed Glass (EAPG)
Fostoria Glass has a complete copy of the 1936, 37, 38 Fostoria Glass Catalog complete with scans of all 258 pages.
Glass Owls Owls were always popular with buyers so you can collect these birds from many of the glass manufacturers.
Hamon Glass was the product of Robert Hamon and produced nice handblown glass for many years.
Imperial Glass was a famous glass maker and the website has the entire contents of a 1966 Imperial Glass Catalog.
Indiana Glass was a popular glass manufacturer that is now out of business but common on Ebay.
Inkwells were frequently made of handblown glass and are available in all colors, shapes, and prices.
Kanawha Glass was a very popular West Virginia glass company which for many years put out a line of hand blown work. They were eventually acquired by Dureme Glass and then went out of business.
Lead Glass is and was very popular and there is tons of old and new lead glass for sale.
Mercury Glass is commonly a handblown perfume bottle with a shinny silver lining.
Milk Glass Almost every manufacturer made at least a few milk glass items at some point. It makes for an "interesting" specialty where values are all over the place.
Opalescent Glass is a type of glass made by many manufacturers
Paperweights are beautiful glass objects, fun to hold, and sometimes stamped or signed by their creator.
Peach Blow or Peachblow as a name for styles of glass from multiple manufacturers.
Rainbow Glass Company was a large West Virginia glass manufacturer who have since gone out of business.
Satin Glass is made by etching the finished item with acid to give a smooth surface.
Slag Glass is made by swirling together two or three colors of glass.
Toothpick Holders are frequently made of glass and are popular handblown items.
Vaseline Glass is another glass type produced by many manufacturers.
Viking Glass Co was a large, popular, West Virginia, glass manufacturer.
We are also working on the idea of an online appraisal service based on the knowledge gained from these collectible sites. The fact is that if you want to know the real market value of something, look it up on Ebay. That is where all the real data about actual cash values will be. Printed price guides are out of date before they are printed.
Ebay has good tools for searching completed auctions and that makes the basis for an appraisal service. The problem of course is that people who need appraisals probably don't know enough about their item(s) and/or how to search the completed auctions. Thus the idea of an online service.
Our thought is that we know enough from research on building the sites we could use pictures and descriptions to make a reasonable appraisal.