Not great news, right? Also, is there a book you would recommend for a beginning collector? Items like pitchers and baskets would receive hand-blown handles and pieces with more than one part, like cake stands, would be secured together with molten glass.However, they did continue to use paper labels beyone 1970 on some products. Ships for $7.49. Using Tiffany and Steuben iridescent glass as inspiration, Fenton ultimately produced over 130 patterns of what some have called “poor man’s Tiffany.”During their 100+ years of business producing high quality glass distributed world-wide, they developed numerous types of glass, including carnival and Bohemian, as well as glass in a myriad of beautiful colors.Using gold, manganese, and cobalt, fresh new colors arrived on the market, making Fenton a “truly American product…collected worldwide” (It was a sad day in 2011 when the company closed it’s doors.To create any given piece, master craftsman would blow molten glass into hand-carved molds. Thanks for letting me share my story.Hi Marianne! Sounds like you have an outstanding collection. Have a lot packed in boxes; someday it will be properly displayed! Warmly – TeriHi Teri–so glad you “stumbled across” me and my blog I hope you’ll find other topics of interest. I have several pieces of blue and white slag, custard, and blue satin Fenton, too; never could have enough! I love reading the history…..I remember my mom having a few hobnail milk glass pieces when I was growing up.
I hope you are well and that you had a good weekend. He stated he bought estates.
Fenton Fenton-Lenox Exclusives at Replacements, Ltd., page 1 with links to Fenton-Lenox Exclusives online pattern registration form, images of more than 425,000 china, crystal, silver and collectible patterns, specialty items for sale, silver hollowware, Christmas ornaments, and much more! Fenton Art Glass Company has been in business for over 100 years, and they are the largest manufacturer of handmade colored glass in the U.S. Finding a piece of Fenton glass at an antique shop or online auction can be exciting, but you may not know how to tell if it’s real. When I saw that you had posted this at Tuesday Turn About, my heart fluttered a bit, and I waited to read it until I could really enjoy it!
Only 1 available and it's in 2 people's carts. Ships for $7.49.
I was trolling Facebook garage sale and found a man selling a whole lot of glassware. Brothers Frank L. and John W. Fenton founded Fenton Art Glass Company in 1905. Fortunately, there is plenty of milk glass to be found, so we can all decorate with it very reasonably.Not surprisingly, this 4″ cranberry opalescent hobnail vase is perhaps my favorite. Art glass is used to conceive all different kinds of shapes and sizes, and most artists desire a specific kind of glass per what their project requires.
Alternatively, you could look for the books in your library or bookstore. I enjoyed your post on this most lovely glassware.I have collected Fenton for years. In fact, I have been thinking about doing that recently.
Beginning in 1980, a tiny number “8” was added below “Fenton,” in 1990 a “9” was added, and then in 2000, a “0.”The $10 million question regarding most collectibles, is “What’s it worth?” Another version of that question would be “Is Fenton glass valuable?” or “Are people buying even Fenton glass?”To learn more about values, check out the price guide in my In general, glass values have dropped over the past decade and far less people in the younger generations are collecting.
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And if you can believe it my Dollar Tree is selling hobnail clear glass vases lol You can bet I bought a few:) I also recently purchased a large hobnail pitcher from Antique Farmhouse and hobnail tumblers from Big Lots. I finally got one of my “Holy Grail” pieces 2 weeks ago–the Westmoreland swan on an oval dish. They started out painting glass that others produced, but when they didn’t have a specific art glass they needed, they decided to blow their own. In lieu of making a donation, please feel free to buy a vintage something-or-other from my blog shop or perhaps one of my digital products I have collected the Fenton small statues for a long time now. Thanks for sharing your collection! I’d love it if you’d share some photos over in the Facebook group (Your Vintage Headquarters) Hi Diane – stumbled across you while researching prices for a Fenton collection left to me by my late Mum. You were certainly determined, what with three paper routes!What an amazing deal you got on all those pieces–50 cents per piece!! They based the bumpy pattern on similar Victorian era glass known as “dew drop,” (Women across the country began collecting milk glass of all types, that is until it fell out of the favor in the late 1970’s.