It has been a loooong time since either my Dad (Brian) or I wrote, but I’m going to try to be better this year.
I got some information from the Hills of Headwaters web site about the 9th Annual Corn Flower Festival:
9th Annual Corn Flower Festival
Attention glassware collectors and enthusiasts – join Dufferin County Museum and [...]

I just saw this on the Wayback Times web site:
Crazy for Corn Flower
by Walter Lemiski M.A.
walt@waltztime.com
If you’ve been out at auctions lately, or at one of the four annual Canadian Depression Glass Shows then you know that folks are still just crazy for Corn Flower! The beautifully cut crystal pieces sell very well and the [...]

Dad has 10 new auctions going for the next week.
You can see them all at once by viewing the auctions for brianjwing
You can view them individually below:

Two Hughes Cornflower Green Bowls
Hughes Cornflower Cream and Sugar Set
Hughes Cornflower Aluminum Tray
Hughes Cornflower Toothpick Holder
Hughes Cornflower Cream and Sugar
Hughes Cornflower Style Rose Bowl
Hughes Cornflower Sugar Bowl
Hughes Cornflower Creamer
Hughes [...]

When I’m in Value Village, I always look through the display cases at the front, and in the kitchen areas. Often the people who work there don’t recognize a valuable item. This happened the other day. I bought a 50th anniversary tray, still in its original shrink wrap. The shrink wrap had split open in [...]

By Walter Lemiski M.A.

The founder of the W.J. Hughes Corn Flower Company, William John Hughes, was born in Dufferin County, Ontario in the early 1880’s. As a young man he was employed by Roden Brothers silversmiths of Toronto in the 1890’s. Fortunately for him and for glass collectors, when that firm expanded their lines to [...]

In the March, 1999 issue of The WayBack Times, a monthly newspaper in Ontario highlighting antiques, Walter T. Lemiski, M.A. wrote a wonderful article entitled “Colours in the Depression Glass Kitchen” about the various colours of Depression Glass that are available. I would like to point out that not each style or design of depression [...]

I’m currently away on vacation up in the Kawarthas… a small town called Buckhorn. We’ve been renting a cottage at the Three Castles Resort for years now. There are a few antique shops and shows around so hopefully I’ll have something to report when I get back.

I met a dealer at a show in Mapleview Mall in Burlington. I gave him my card and told him to contact me if he ever got a piece of blue. Well, he got a piece and emailed me and I bought it. It is a lovely new Martinsville Radiance blank. I don’t want to [...]

I was recently at the Value Village in Hamilton, Ontario. (Value Village is a store where people donate used goods and the store sells them and profits go to charity.) Outside they have a donation bin, and I spotted a large pedestal bowl outside beside the bin. The bowl was filled with old silverware. I [...]

Yesterday Marsha and I went antiquing (as I like to do on Saturdays). We went to Lakeshore Antiques, the Forum Gallery, and the Ice Creamery (arts/crafts, antiques, and ice cream) all in the Niagara-on-the-Lake area. The first two were strike-outs, but at the Ice Creamery we found a beautiful Hughes Corn Flower double candalabra. It [...]