Milk Glass

[bonnieshaw60]

I purchased 4 of these blue goblets. I’ve seen them referred to as milk glass online as well as opaline glass.
I’m new at identifying or trying to identify old glass. The prices on these are all over the place from 122.00
to well over 1000.00. All posts I see for sale call them French PORTIEUX VALLERYSTHAL GLASS GOBLETS, OPALINE.
Most of what I have seen online have a different stem than these. I also saw one that listed them as Fenton.
My question is, can anyone identify these and give me somewhat of an idea how old they are and what they might be
worth. Secondly, are opaline glass and milk glass two separate things? These are more like an overlay on the glass.
Thank you so much for putting up with my questions.

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[Tim Manasterski]

There are enough differences between goblets to rule out opaline:

“All opaline glass is hand-blown and has a rough or polished pontil on the bottom. There are no seams and no machine engraving. Many pieces of opaline glass are decorated with gilding. Some with handpainted flowers or birds. Several have bronze ormolu mounts, rims, hinges or holders. Real opaline glass was produced only in France. In the 1900’s Italy produced a similar glass and called it opaline veritable.”

Your goblets are definitely not hand-blown, they look machine made. Also, the stem and sheen are very different and in my opinion they’re not even milk glass. Milk glass is usually very shiny but opaque, where the sheen on your goblets is almost matte or satin.

In my opinion your goblets are worth between $5-20 dollars each. I believe they’re 20th century in origin and more than likely from the late 20th century.

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