Avon Cape Cod Ruby Red Glass Value: What It’s Worth and What Sells

If you go to estate sales, you've seen it: shelves of deep red goblets covered in little raised dots, a cruet, a pair of candleholders, maybe a stack of plates. Avon Cape Cod is in nearly every house that had an Avon lady in the 1970s and 1980s, and that is exactly why most of it is cheap. Millions of pieces were sold.

It still sells, though, and it sells fast in November and December, when people want red glass for the Christmas table. Price it honestly, sell it as a set, and it moves.

What Avon Cape Cod Glass Is

Avon sold the Cape Cod Collection from about 1975 into the 1990s. The glass was made for Avon by Wheaton, a New Jersey glass company that made many of Avon's bottles. The first pieces were sold filled: a cruet of cologne, a candleholder of cologne, a goblet with a candle inside. Customers liked the red glass more than what was in it, and Avon added plates, cups, bowls, pitchers and serving pieces until people could set a whole table with it.

You'll see the word “1876” on some pieces. That is part of the collection's name, a nod to early American glass. It is not the year the piece was made. Nothing in this collection is older than the mid-1970s.

Avon Cape Cod Value Chart

Booth and estate-sale prices for pieces with no chips or cracks. Online listings run higher, but most of those never sell; these are what it brings in person.

Typical ranges as of October 2026. Prices vary by area and condition. Snap yours with PocketPrice to see what it'll bring near you.

You will see single goblets listed online at $20 or more. Look at what sold, not what is listed: a lone goblet rarely brings over $8, and shipping a fragile $5 glass makes no sense for you or the buyer.

Is Avon Cape Cod Glass Worth Anything?

Yes, but not much per piece, and that's the honest answer. A goblet is a $5 item. What makes Cape Cod worth your shelf space is that it sells reliably, it sells in quantity, and holiday shoppers buy it by the set. A box of twelve goblets bought for $10 at an estate sale can bring $50–$70 in December as three tied sets of four.

The pieces worth stopping for:

• Pitchers: $20–$40, and more when sold with six or eight goblets.
• Hurricane lamps: $20–$40 with the chimney. The chimney breaks first, so a complete one is worth checking.
• Platters and large serving bowls: $15–$35. Fewer people bought the big pieces, and they're what a table needs.
• Covered butter dishes and creamer-and-sugar sets: $10–$22 with matching lids.
• Full table sets: service for 6 or 8 with plates, goblets and serving pieces, $100–$200 to a buyer who wants it all for Christmas.

How to Identify Avon Cape Cod

1. Feel for the raised dots. The pattern is bands and fields of small raised dots, with beaded or knobbed stems on goblets and candleholders. You can feel it with your eyes closed.
2. Flip it over. Many pieces have AVON in raised letters on the bottom, under the foot or in the center of the base. Some also say 1876 or Cape Cod. Not every piece is marked, and some marks are faint, so hold it to the light.
3. Check the color. It is a deep ruby red, red all the way through the glass. It is not painted or sprayed on.
4. Check for leftover cologne or wax. Some pieces still have a candle in them, or a stopper that smells of cologne. That's normal; it was sold filled.

Cape Cod vs. Other Red Glass

Red glass gets lumped together at estate sales. These are the ones people confuse with Avon Cape Cod, and they price differently:

• Anchor Hocking Royal Ruby (from 1938 into later decades): smooth, plain red glass with no raised dots. Some pieces have a small anchor mark. Tumblers and plain bowls sell for $3–$10, about like Cape Cod; older and odd pieces bring more.
• Fostoria Coin (about 1958 to 1982): round coin medallions pressed into the sides, often frosted. Ruby Coin is more collected than Cape Cod, and pieces often bring $15–$60. See our crystal guide for more Fostoria.
• Imperial Cape Cod (about 1932 to 1984): a different pattern by Imperial Glass with the same name and a similar look. It is mostly clear, with some colors, a little ruby among them, and it is never marked Avon. Imperial Cape Cod has its own collectors and its own prices.
• Imported and newer look-alikes: red dotted glass from other makers, often thinner, lighter, or a brighter cherry red, with no mark. Price them at $2–$5 as red holiday glass and don't call them Avon.
• Depression glass in red: 1930s pieces in patterns like Old Cafe or Coronation. See the depression glass price guide.

What Raises or Kills the Value

Raises it

• Sets: four, six or eight matching goblets, or plates with matching goblets.
• Big and rarer pieces: pitchers, hurricane lamps, platters, butter dishes.
• Complete pieces: the cruet with its stopper, the hurricane with its chimney, the butter dish with its lid.
• The season: the same goblet sells faster and higher in November and December.

Kills it

• Chips on rims, feet and the edges of the dots. Run a fingertip around every edge.
• Cracks in stems and handles. Hold the piece to a window.
• Scratches across plate centers, and cloudy haze from the dishwasher.
• Missing parts: no stopper, no chimney, no lid. Price the part you have.

Pricing Tips for Booth Vendors

• Sell it as a Christmas table. Set two places on a red or white cloth with a candleholder and the cruet. A shopper who sees the table buys the table. Our holiday booth display ideas have more on this.
• Bundle goblets by 4, 6 or 8. Tie them with ribbon and put one price on the set. Single goblets sit; sets sell.
• Light it. Ruby glass looks almost black on a dark shelf. Put it in front of a window, on a glass shelf, or near a lamp, where the red glows.
• Watch the calendar. Bring it out in early November and keep it up through Christmas. It sells again before Valentine's Day. Store the extras the rest of the year.
• Pair it with other holiday tableware. It sells beside Christmas dishes; see our Christmas dinnerware guide.
• Sell it locally. It's heavy, fragile and cheap, so shipping eats the profit. Only full sets are worth listing online.
• Tag it plainly. “Avon Cape Cod ruby red, set of 6 goblets” tells shoppers what it is and that you priced it fairly.

Related Guides

For the rest of the glass cabinet, see our glass and crystal price guide, the depression glass price guide and crystal values for Waterford, Fostoria and Lenox.