Yellow-Green Vaseline! A Guide to the Magic Glass

Yellow-Green Vaseline! A Guide to the Magic Glass

It's been called Vaseline, canary, uranium, topaz, yellow, Canaria, Anna Yellow, Lenora Green, and Chameleon. To this day, many dealers and glass collectors are still unsure as to what this attractive yet strange glass is all about. There is traditionally a distinction drawn between "new" and "old" Vaseline glass. This ranges from the esthetes among us who will accept only "canary" glass as the true early Vaseline, to the overly generous who call any yellow-green glass "Vaseline type."

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Table of Contents:

COVER

DEDICATION

ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS

TABLE OF CONTENTS

PROLOGUE

INTRODUCTION

1. YELLOW-GREEN VASELINE!-A RIDDLE WRAPPED IN AN ENIGMA

2. THE ULTRA-VIOLET FACTOR

3. THE GENIE IN THE YELLOW-GREEN BOTTLE

4. EARLY STARTS AND STOPS

5. THE BEGINNING

6. LEAD TO LIME

7. VASELINE PATIERN GLASS

8. NON-OPALESCENT PATIERNS IN VASELINE

9. THE VICTORIAN HIGH TIDE

10. OPALESCENT VASELINE GLASS

11. VASELINE+ A CHANGE OF SCENE=URANIUM GLASS

12. THE GLASS BUBBLE SHATTERS

13. THE DECLINE OF VASELINE 1900-1941

14. ATTEMPTS AT REVIVAL 1900-1941

15. DEPRESSION AND ART DECO

16. DISAPPEARANCE AND REAPPEARANCE

17. THE FUTURE

NOTES ON THE COLOR PLATES

ILLUSTRATED VASELINE PIECES

EPILOGUE

BIBLIOGRAPHY