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Glass Identification - Post here for all ID requests => Glass => Unresolved Glass Queries => Topic started by: popsmcchicken on March 20, 2006, 01:32:39 AM
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Hi All,
Could someone help me with a date of production on this Fenton Bowl. I believe the pattern name is Drapery. Approx. 10" wide, done in a beautiful shade of dark cranberry with a very nice opalescent treatment. Has the Fenton logo on the bottom, but almost unreadable and I can't find this particular pattern in any of my Fenton books. Many thanks in advance.
http://i1.tinypic.com/rthsh1.jpg
http://i1.tinypic.com/rthszp.jpg
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I looked in my books also and couldn't find it. It isn't in Compendium 1 or 2, the 1990s decade book or Special Order 1980-present. So given that, it wasn't in the regular line prior to 1999 and if it was a special order, it wasn't from 1980-1999.
With the darker cranberry color, I suspect it is newer. They changed the formulation and the cranberry is much more intense in the newer pieces. I would date it sometime in the 2000s but I am not sure which year.
Forgot to add: It may be a QVC piece (in fact it looks more like what they sell on QVC) rather than a regular line piece. I would still date it to 2000+
Look at the logo under a loupe and if it has a "0" then it was made in this decade.
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Thanks, Connie. I have looked with a loop, but the logo itself is almost unreadable, let alone the number in the oval.