Green & Yellow Stamps

[SudokuGal]

I was surfing the net on carnival glass, depression glass and the like. One place mentioned that some glass was given away at grocery stores...which got me to thinking about things I'd like to see come back in vogue.

Green and yellow stamps top my list. For those of you too young to know about these, you got them based on how much you spent at the grocery store or gas station. You saved them up, licking them to put them into booklets. Then you traded them in (at the appropriate brick and mortar store for something you wanted, like a toaster. My niece and I are close in age...it was our responsibility to put the stamps in the booklets.

I also miss the grocery store weekly/bi-weekly get-one-piece giveaways...usually to build a set of dishes or set of pots and pans.

Given the state of our economy, I think the timing is more than right for these incentives to be resurrected. Wonder who I should talk to

 

[Jennee26]

Sudoku - that sounds like a good idea, but it seems these days because of the economy they are more reluctant to give free stuff away. If you find someone who actually listens to the idea. let us know.

 

[Tilly]

I've still got a set of stoneware that was purchased with green stamps.

 

[Mary Kay]

Wow Jennee great pic! You look happy!
My local Publix and Winn Dixie Supermarkets still do something like that. It's normally some thing from Heritage mint. But I saved coupons and bought a set of ironstone blue willow. Both stores have those sales about every two years and I ended up with a set for 12! I have all the extras too. I love getting things like that!

 

[Kimerpuff]

I remember those stamps! wasnt there something like G&S on them? there was also some box top thing, cripes I cant remember the name.. but you could save them and get a catalog for shopping with them. I found a bunch like 5 years ago and tossed em! I never did use any

 

[SudokuGal]

Yeah, I think they did have those initials.

MK, I don't normally go to Publix or W-D, but I may have to stop in occasionally to see if they have something going on...like I NEED any more stuff.

 

[Jennee26]

Wow Jennee great pic! You look happy!
My local Publix and Winn Dixie Supermarkets still do something like that. It's normally some thing from Heritage mint. But I saved coupons and bought a set of ironstone blue willow. Both stores have those sales about every two years and I ended up with a set for 12! I have all the extras too. I love getting things like that!

Thanks MK

 

[VA Slim]

Sudoku.....I remember S&H Green Stamps. My mother collected them. I used to lick and stick them into small books. That had to have been back in the late 50's, early 60's. OH my goodness I feel dated right now. Haven't thought of those in years. It was fun to go to the store (actually a showroom) & pick stuff out.

"Back in the day", the grocery store give-a-ways were great. I still have a set of dishes packed away somewhere that came from the A&P. Memories......

 

[Mary Kay]

Saw this and thought we needed to add it to the thread..couldn't find yellow. Maybe that was a regional thing?

 

[RKayne]

Oy, I remember that my Mom use to smoke some brand of cigs that she got points on...what were they? She got a lot of stuff over the years because she smoked. Sad, lol.

Hey, Sudoku? What sort of glass you go for? I collect Victorian and Depression Vaseline glass It is all put up right now until I get some museum fixative because we are in the land o'quakes and there hasn't been one in so long I know we are due! And..scary as it is, I have my Grandmothers Ruby Red glass. The radiation factor bothers me a bit, but it was my GRANDMOTHERS so I have it

 

[SudokuGal]

Oh MK...that's so cool that you found that image!!!! Thanks.

RK, I don't collect...I'm e-baying now, trying to downsize my stuff. I was surfing, trying to figure out what I have of my mother's stuff. Bad thing is, once I start the research there's something inside me that says, "ohhhh, I want to collect that, that, and that." It's a sickness, lol.

I didn't know that about the Ruby Red stuff, but, yeah, I do understand hanging onto something because it belonged to someone special. I inherited my brother's collection of Bosson heads. At first, I thought, "OK, there are just too many...I don't have walls sturdy enough to hold groupings of them (I live in a manufactured house)...maybe there are some collectors out there who would be interested." Wellllll, I found the Bosson forum out of England...those folks are so passionate about collecting them...and I found out that there are chalkware restorers. Bottom line: my collection is now back in the closets. Reading their passion made me realize how I just couldn't part with something that is "so my brother."

Downsizing really isn't working for me, lol.

 

[RKayne]

I know about that! Bad thing is, we have a storage unit so we have somewhere to keep things Good thing about that storage unit is the constant temp will give us a nic liquid stashing spot! I could never part with my glass, the vaseline glows under a black light. Seems that glass is the perfect thing to store radioactivity without is releasing it! They used Uranium to color glass a not very attractive green or yellow but when it is under black light, just WOW. I plan to display a top shelf with the ruby red under bright white light and block the bottom parts of the shelving off and displaying the vaseline glass under heavy black light

 

[SudokuGal]

Oh, that kind of display sounds cool.

RK, I posted a pic of what the family has always called the "ugly, yellow vase" that was my mothers. It has no marks. Was wondering if you have ever seen any glass like this.

Go to my photobucket album:

http://s920.photobucket.com/albums/ad46/lindajs53/ugly yellow vase/

 

[RKayne]

That is....omg...makes me kinda want to stab my eyes out, lol. No, I haven't. Is it stamped on the bottom?

 

[SudokuGal]

That is....omg...makes me kinda want to stab my eyes out, lol. No, I haven't. Is it stamped on the bottom?

ROTFLMAO...I know. No, it doesn't have any kind of stamp. It is unusual in how the sides are "indented."

My sister-in-law was the only one who liked it...I got it after she died because no one else would take it. It's another one of those things that I can't imagine parting with because of the sentimental value (anything that was my mom's).

 

[Crankyfuzz]

That is....omg...makes me kinda want to stab my eyes out, lol. No, I haven't. Is it stamped on the bottom?

I could not have said it better myself lmao

 

[Kimerpuff]

Suduko,
Your vase looks like a fenton, if there is no marking on the bottom I think that means it was made pre-1970. I have a couple pieces of fenton tho not as memorable as yours is!

 

[RKayne]

Yano, I would have to second the Fenton. They did make some horrible things, did they not! The dimpling and the folds at the top remind me of a lot of their stuff...

 

[SudokuGal]

Thanks gals. Yeah, this vase is very old...my mother has been gone 40 years and I think I remember it from childhood. Who knows how long she had it.

It is memorable, isn't it? LOL. Honestly, when I moved, I labeled the box "ugly yellow vase."

 

[Kimerpuff]

The Fentons I have are from my mother. One is a Vintage Fenton Peach Blow Silver Crest Cased Glass Bowl, I am pretty sure my mother got it as a wedding gift. The other is a Large Ruffled White Hobnail Milk Glass Centerpiece Bowl, not sure where she got this one.

Sudoku you may want to contact rubylane.com they seem to have alot of older fentons for sale, so they may be able to verify the maker and give you an aproximate vintage.