At a recent auction, a genuinely old kitchen hanging lamp was sold with a new 14 cranberry hobnail domed shade. The buyer was shocked to learn a week later that the shade was new. Many persons mistakenly believe cranberry shades are not reproduced.

Dalzell Viking Glass Co. has put certain original molds of Imperial Candlewick back in production. The company is now making a five piece table setting which includes a 10 dinner plate, 8 salad plate, 6 bread plate and a butter plate, cup and saucer. The pieces are made in crystal and colors which include forest green, cobalt blue and ruby red. Sets retail for $75-$95. Other sizes of plates are also produced privately for Gumps of San Francisco with frosted finishes on their backs.

Original Candlewick was one of Imperial Glass Corporation's most popular and longest selling patterns. It was introduced in 1936 and continued to be made until Imperial closed in 1984.

Dugan Glass first made Lattice Daisy about 1915. Originals are mostly known in carnival but were also available in non-iridized finishes.

A clear crystal coaster is the latest piece of the Iris pattern to be reproduced. Original Iris was made by the Jeanette Glass Company. The original factory name was Iris but it is now commonly called Iris and Herringbone.

At least one restoration catalog source is offering glass door knobs closely resembling Depression-era originals. The 1 diameter knobs are sold in Jadite (opaque pale green), transparent apple green, transparent blue (peacock blue) and Delphite (opaque pale blue) and milk glass, and clear. Glass bridge-style door handles averaged about 4 across and were available in the same colors as the knobs but also included opaque black, ruby red and cobalt blue.

During the 1970-1980s Murano, Italy, was one of the leading suppliers of reproduction Victorian art glass. Mother of pearl glassware, commonly called MOP, was one of the 19th century decorative techniques the Italians copied.

There are more large cut glass urns entering the market. When ACRN first reported these urns (see June 2001 ACRN), they were only being wholesaled by the large reproduction importers. Now the same piece are being offered in a number of holiday mail order catalogs.

Original Madrid pattern depression glass was made by Federal Glass Company and produced from 1932 to 1939. In 1976 Federal changed the pattern name to Recollection and began making new pieces from new molds. The first new pieces of Recollection were easily identified because pieces were dated in the mold with the year 1976. But then Federal went bankrupt and the molds were sold to Indiana Glass who removed the date from the molds. There have been problems separating old from new ever since.

These 3-D busts of frosted glass are almost always seen offered as Lalique-type or attributed to some other pre-WWII French glass company. ACRN recently traced the figures to an early 1970s brochure of AA Importing Co., an American antique reproduction wholesaler.