I love the white skate too!! That is a terrific idea & stars really make it along with the fur!! Gives me that warm & fuzzy feeling you get around holiday time,(I love the holidays)! Thanks for the skate paint answer. I would imagine larger town the price would be a lot more for a table or booth & "regulars" might get the "best" spots. Going somewhere else can be a worry, bad roads, weather turning bad etc. So I would consider all that & having to get up early to get there. Costs involved in going there count against your profits. We did Craft Boutique for 2-3 years in a woman's club & then over to bank we had a room they let us use. After we quit, Tole painting came in & I was still making crafts so our local park had tables to rent so GF & I shared a long table but they didn't do much advertising so we didn't sell much, few customers that came bought something from us but not many came as cold day & they bought little things so we took home most of what we brought. Shortly after that Craft Boutiques became jewelry & company made jams with country looking cloth with ribbon around or made in China stuff with that pulled off & ribbon added,etc.& I lost interest. I haven't been to any this year, few & far between, only couple I would liked to have gone to but had to do other things. Anyway check out distance ,costs before you go & also do you want to do it every year or make a lot extra so you can do your local 1 too. Jan

When did your great-uncle arrive in the U.S.? From my quick search on Ebay.de (not Ebay.com!) it appears that this style of engraved glass was common up to the 1960's. Some sellers date similar glassware as early as the 1900's and attribute it as Jugendstil. Also, my family back in Moscow, Russia, has a set of engraved liqueur glasses with a very similar floral design, although not identical. The glasses were made in Czechoslovakia in the early 1960's. I saw similar glassware in other homes in Moscow, usually 1950's-1960's Czechoslovakian, Polish or East German imports. Apparently, this style disappeared in the 1970's. When I looked on Ebay.de, some of the glassware in this style was said to be French. It seems that this style was manufactured throughout Europe for many years. You might want to browse glassware for sale on Ebay.de to see if there's anything close to your set. Here is a link that might be useful: Jugendstil Glasses on Ebay.de

Just had one explode in my hands last night. had cooked broccoli in the microwave (4:50 on high) and when i took it out and turned to set it on the stove, it exploded in mid air. broccoli and glass EVERYWHERE!! Fairly new square dish…purchased only about 6 months ago. used maybe 10 times in this same manner—cooking vegggies in micro.

Whoa...we had 2 sets of them in silver !! I have 2 glasses now that are similar that were my MIL's.I saved them but the pattern was ruined by the ...dishwasher !! One of our sets of silver ones was knocked off of the top of our refrigerator in 1972..they were a wedding present in 1971. The other was used till we gave them away as the leaves had all worn off and the carrier was gone. Oh how we cherish things after the fact :) Good luck and thank you for the trip down memory lane !! c