What is antique “jadeite” kitchenware made of?
Jadite was manufactured by many companies from the 1930’s to 1972. Jadite is occasionally referred to as “clambroth” a term also used for opaque white glass. Each company produced a slight variant either lighter or darker of jadite’s basic seafoam -green color. It’s made of low expansion borosilicate glass and is ideal for oven use Jadite was heavy, durable, inexpensive and, sometimes it was even free. It was often packaged as a giveaway in food and cleaning products. Restaurants served meals on jadite dishes, as they cost pennies to buy and had a high threshold for breakage. Because Jadite is functional, good looking, and easy to find and still fairly cheap to buy, it is an ideal collectible. What makes jadite especially fun to collect is the hundreds of different items available. There is everything from basic tableware and kitchenware to unusual, even quirky, things like cigarette boxes, footed bulb bowls, jucie-saver pie plates, door knobs and water dispensers to name a few. By far
