It was sold for as little as a nickel apiece in the early 20th century, but genuine Depression glass, despite the ubiquity of its early years, could fetch hundreds of dollars at flea markets or auctions today.
Glassware started out in the early 1900s as a luxury reserved for the monied upper classes. The first pieces were made by hand and cost a pretty penny, but the stock market crash of 1929 plunged the United States into the Great Depression and a long period of conservative consumerism.
