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Title: chance/fiesta glass plate ... design?? age??
Post by: jonchellycain on July 23, 2009, 10:36:08 AM

Hi there im trying to get some info on this plate, does anybody know if it has a pattern name and the rough date it would have been designed/made 24.5cms in diameter sticker reads FIESTA GLASS HAND MADE IN ENGLAND
many thanks in advance
michelle

Title: Re: chance/fiesta glass plate ... design?? age??
Post by: Lustrousstone on July 23, 2009, 11:34:42 AM

Fiesta Glass, NOT Chance, post 1981. Fiesta stuff often seems to be a mish-mash of various stock transfers, often with white backgrounds. I'm not sure there was much "design"

Title: Re: chance/fiesta glass plate ... design?? age??
Post by: jonchellycain on July 23, 2009, 11:46:34 AM

ahha, id always thought fiesta glass was chance glass, just a branch type of thing, because didnt some of the labels have fiesta chance glass on or was it fiesta ware chance glass?? are they a completly different company then? i thought that Chance brothers was still the "mother company"?? of fiesta glass

michelle

Title: Re: chance/fiesta glass plate ... design?? age??
Post by: Lustrousstone on July 23, 2009, 01:13:54 PM

That's why you need David's book. Fiesta Glass was the management buy out of the Fiestaware (the product name) part of Chance Glass when Pilkington's (the then parent company) closed down the Smethwick Chance factory. So yes they are a different company but they did continue producing some, but not all, of the Chance designs, and they did invent some of their own.

If it's floral with a white background or a mix of lace and flowers, it's probably Fiesta Glass, post 1981 and not Chance Glass. If the printing is topside it's definitely neither.

Title: Re: chance/fiesta glass plate ... design?? age??
Post by: jonchellycain on July 23, 2009, 01:19:17 PM

aaahhhh now i get it.., i do definatly need to get the book and i keep promising myself i will, ive just spent £50 on two other glass books at a fair last weekend so cant justify buying Davids book this month.. but its my 30th birthday next month so if i hint loud enough i might get it  :24:
thanks michelle

Title: Re: chance/fiesta glass plate ... design?? age??
Post by: Anne on July 23, 2009, 01:42:23 PM

It's well-worth adding to your library Michelle, an absolute mine of information on Chance and even covers some other makers of slumped glass (in the It's not Chance bit) to point you in the right direction for those. :hiclp:

Title: Re: chance/fiesta glass plate ... design?? age??
Post by: jonchellycain on July 23, 2009, 02:05:12 PM

I promise i will buy it next month ;D ;D :thup:, well i will definatly show jon where you go to buy it :24:

michelle