People keep calling any old glass 'depression glass' at the flea market
I've been hitting the same big flea market in Springfield for about five years now, and there's this thing that bugs me every time. Sellers will slap a 'depression glass' label on any piece of colored glassware from the 70s or 80s, and charge way too much for it. I saw a lady pay $45 for a green dish last week that was clearly 1970s Avon, not 1930s at all. It matters because real depression glass has specific patterns, colors, and marks, and it's a piece of history. When everything gets called that, it makes it harder for new collectors to learn and they end up wasting money. I know because I made that mistake myself when I started, buying a pink 'hobnail' vase that turned out to be a 1980s reproduction. How do you guys tell the real stuff from the fakes or just the wrong era?