Miss America (Depression glass)

How to read it

Glenita Stearns, in a 1981 Glass Review article the National Depression Glass Association reprints, calls Miss America one of the most sought-after of Hocking’s Depression glass patterns. Hocking made a full dinner service in it, with plates, bowls and serving pieces, among them a four-part relish that a spice company once gave away as a premium. Most of it is pink or crystal, and crystal is collected here more than in most patterns. A few pieces were made in green, and the odd piece turns up in ice blue or red. Montgomery Ward sold it in 1936. Hocking merged with the Anchor Cap and Closure Corporation in 1937 to form Anchor Hocking.

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When it was made

The sources give different years. Stearns says it was made only from 1935 to 1937. The National Depression Glass Association’s table of 92 major patterns gives 1933 to 1937, and Antique Trader 1935 to 1938.

Miss America or English Hobnail?

Stearns notes that Miss America is sometimes confused with English Hobnail, a pattern made by the Westmoreland Glass Company from the 1930s, in pink and green only during the Depression years. Miss America has even rays in the bottom of each piece; the rays on English Hobnail form a hexagonal pattern.