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| IMPERIAL |
 The Imperial Glass Company of Bellaire, Ohio came into existence in
1901 but it wasn’t until 1904 that the first glass came off the production line.It was not until 5 years later that carnival glass was first produced. In 1909 Imperial introduced a line of iridized glass in their Nuruby, Sapphire and Peacock colours of carnival glass. Huge amounts of carnival glass were produced and exported all over the world for the next 10 years in a wide range of shapes size and colours. Some patterns must have been shipped to Australia in large quantities, vases such as Ripple and Morning Glory are still found quite frequently especially in Marigold. Luster Rose, Open Rose, Imperial Grape are also popular and highly collected patterns.  Probably the easiest of all Punch sets to find would have to be Imperials marigold Fashion set, even here in Australia full sets can be found in many collections. Imperial produced high quality carnival glass, and no-one would disagree that Imperials purple carnival glass is in a class of its own. In 1929 Imperial entered the machine glass era and began produced what is now called Depression glass and in the 1960’s began remaking some of its old iridized patterns and well as creating a few new ones for the new collectors who had caught the carnival glass bug.  Like Fenton most, if not all, of the later glass production was made
bearing the Imperial mark. Some of their “old” carnival was also marked with, what is now called, the Iron Cross mark and a few items such as some Frosted Block rose bowls are marked “Made in USA” |