Posts About Jubilee and Other Lancaster Patterns
Jubilee – Pretty Cut Depression Glass by Lancaster
Let’s Go Antiquing! Monongah, Soda Fountain, Mayfair and Lancaster Glass Finds
Lancaster Glass – Lovely Designs and Colors of the Depression Era
Lancaster Glass – More Designs and Colors of the Depression Era
More Lancaster Depression Glass – Sunshine / Lana and Debbra
Lancaster Cane Landum Yellow Depression Glass
Lancaster Glass Cane Landrum Topaz Console Bowl
Antiquing for Glass at Daval’s Used Furniture in Hastings, Michigan (Photos of Kay pattern)
Too Quick! A FAST Look at an Antique Mall (Photos of Jody pattern)
Lana Sunshine Satin Green Depression Glass and Kind Words
Another Mystery Piece: Art Deco Footed Glass Bowl with Yellow, Black and Gold (Maybe Lancaster?)
What Is Depression Glass? Introduction to Colored Glassware Depression Era (Photos of Cane Landrum)
Antiquing with Your Best Friend – Cane Landrum Topaz Depression Glass
It’s Beautiful, But Is It Lancaster Depression Glass? (Answer, no, this piece is from Lancaster Colony, different company!)
Lancaster Jubilee Depression Glass
Lancaster Glass made Jubilee in the early 1930s in yellow, pink and crystal using their lovely petal shaped banks. Jubilee is a cut pattern, not mold-etched, that has 12-petal flowers around open centers. Standard Glass made very similar patterns with cut flowers but on different blanks. Hocking owned both Lancaster and Standard Glass.
This Petal topaz bowl is the same blank that Lancaster used for Jubilee, but it lacks the cutting and is not Jubilee. (It is very pretty and we are glad to have it!)
The plate at the top of this page is the same graceful blank with the cutting and is Jubilee. So is this goblet.
Jubilee includes basic luncheon pieces, plates, cup, saucer, creamer, sugar, sherbet, but lacks any place setting bowls. There are several tumblers and goblets, serving plates and several lovely bowls to use for serving or decorative accessories.
Lancaster made candle holders, candy jars, a cheese and cracker set, center handled server and a mayo set, all of which are hard to find. Basic Jubilee pieces are reasonably easy to find and affordable but the serving pieces, many stems and tumblers and the accessories can be quite costly and you will likely have to go to a glass show or shop online to find them.
I use and recommend the reference book Lancaster Glass Company 1908-1937 Identification and Value Guide by John P. Zastowney.
Cane Landrum and Landrum
The mold-etched scroll and plume design is “Landrum” and “Cane Landrum” is the same pattern with the center textured motif that looks like cane. Lancaster referred to the “cane” pieces as line 765 and the plain centered petal shape is 767.
Lancaster made Landrum/Cane Landrum from 1932 in yellow, pink and apple green. We saw several yellow pieces but I don’t recall any pink or green.
I think Landrum on the “Cane” pieces are more common, at least we saw more of them. Here is a close up of the design.
Landrum/Cane Landrum line is essentially decorative accessories or serving pieces such as the serving plate above or the bowl below.
Open Work
Lancaster made Open Work beginning in 1930 in yellow and pink, soft green and crystal plus some black and apple green, plus produced frosted pieces and some with etched or painted designs or metal trim. Some pieces have the lace edge straight out, others have it cupped up and a few have the lace pointing down. Per Zastowney Lancaster made all pieces in soft green and pink and only a few in the other colors.
Open Work is a decorative pattern. There are many bowls (called nappies in some catalogs), trays and serving size plates, comports plus candle holders, candy dishes.
Please note it is similar to Hocking’s Old Colony depression glass pattern with the lace edge, but better glass quality and different shapes. Old Colony pieces have rayed centers.
Debbra
Lancaster made Debbra beginning in 1933. Only this apple green 8 1/2 inch bowl has been found so far. One Hocking catalog from 1933 shows this Debbra bowl; recall that Hocking owned Lancaster.
Debbra is very pretty with its design of thistles, scrolls, flowers. It is mold etched, meaning the design is raised from the surface.
Sunshine, Also Called Lana
Early depression glass author Hazel Marie Weatherman called this unusual pattern “Lana” but apparently more people accept the name “Sunshine”. Pieces have cane centers and the sides have a random-appearing set of grooves and pieces other than the creamer and sugar are octagonal. It is very hard to photograph!
Lancaster introduced Sunshine in 1932 in soft green, pink and both frosted green and pink. This satin green plate came from a reader who shared it with me.
Sunshine is a serving and decorative accessory pattern. Look for a creamer and sugar, mayonnaise set, muffin plates, trays and bowls.
Fuchsia, Line 0 1/2
I know almost nothing about this pattern. We had the vase pictured for several years when I saw it in the Zastowney book listed under Vases. It is a simple stylized cutting of a fuchsia flow with leaf sprays.
Octagon Line 924 and Line 923
Lancaster made two Octagon patterns, Lines 923 and 924 with different handles. Line 923 has scrolled handles. Both lines have basic serving pieces, bowls and plates, some with turned up edges and in different sizes.
Lancaster used their Octagon shapes for many decorations, satin treatments, painted flowers, silver overlay, decals, cuttings. I was not sure this next bowl is Lancaster but decided based on color and general quality and looks.
Kay Lancaster Depression Glass
Kay is the base pattern on this decorated bowl. Kay pieces have three feet with narrow ribs and a scalloped center base with narrow ribs. Most Kay pieces I’ve seen were frosted pink with flower decorations but there are unfrosted and undecorated Kay items too.
Carol Lancaster Depression Glass
Carol is very similar to Kay except the center base differs. You may find unsatinized pieces with cuttings from Lancaster’s sister company Standard Glass.
Jody Lancaster Depression Glass
This very graceful, stretched bowl with curled up sides is so attractive! I’ve only seen Jody in this shape and this band of flowers cutting but there are candle holders and other bowls in this pattern.
Cable Lancaster Depression Glass
Cable gets its name from the design around the base. Look for vases, bowls and plates both flat and cupped in the usual Lancaster colors and decorations. Unfortunately we did not buy this pretty vase!
Petal – Lancaster’s Workhorse Depression Glass Blank
Lancaster used Petal on its own, with many decorations, and adapted the molds to make similar shapes such as the Cane Landrum. This is the blank Lancaster used for Jubilee, as shown in the topaz bowl near the top of this page.
These candle holders are Lancaster and look like they should be part of the Petal line, but I didn’t see them in the Zastowney book Petal section. Replacements does show them.
There are many other Lancaster patterns and decorations and most are lovely. This glass company combined soft, pretty colors – pink, green, topaz, crystal – with simple designs and used basic shapes to make a gorgeous array of glass.