Thank you to Beverly from How Sweet the Sound for hosting Pink Saturday. What a perfect color for cheerful thoughts of spring.
Up today is our Princess. This is pink depression glass from Hocking, made about 1931 to 1935 when the country was deep in the Great Depression. Pink glassware – and blue, amber, green and amethyst – was given away as premiums or offered with coupons. It was a good way for the thrifty housewife to get something beautiful for her family while saving money.
Today we can tell the pieces in patterns that were not popular premiums and those that ladies needed to send in hard-to-find cash to get. Those are the pieces that are more expensive or harder to find. Sherbets are fairly common in most depression glass patterns but not so readily available in pink Princess.
Sherbets are fun pieces. You can use them for a fruit cup, to serve applesauce, yogurt or cottage cheese, fill them with berries, custard and cream, use them for cake with lemon sauce and even use them for sherbet.
Pink isn’t just for Saturday. And pink depression glass is a fun way to enjoy pink, beautiful glass, and a link to our history.