Hocking Mayfair Pink Depression Glass Sweetpea Vase Open Rose Pattern vintage barware The Little Pictures of Japan

The Little Pictures of Japan book is filled with coloured illustrations by Sturges

so this is a fun acquisition for the Mickey Mouse or Disney collector

This is a vintage 1950s era English toffee tin featuring Fragonard courting couples

superior to anything made in more recent decades

or it may actually date a little earlier

Hocking Mayfair Pink Depression Glass Sweetpea Vase Open Rose Pattern vintage barware The Little Pictures of JapanThis is a hard to find Mayfair pink depression glass sweetpea vase, made by the Hocking Glass Co. between 1931 and 1937. There is no other similarly shaped vase made in any other depression glass pattern. It flares up from its cylindrical bottom to a rim that flares out, almost like a hat brim, except that it is crimped to have a ruffled appearance in order to achieve this the rim had to be crimped by hand, unusual for what was mass produced glass. As