Topic: ChanceGlass.net : cataloguing Fiestaware patterns

[robbo]

David,
the Sherries are 4½" high. I seem to keep seeing Calypto everywhere   :roll: . A couple of weeks ago I saw some other sherry glasses, which I didn't buy, reason being that the bodies seemed quite cheap quality. They didn't have gold rims like these.

Robbo

[Anne]

I think this is the Dahlias pattern (click for larger image):

[Anne]

Just referring back to Tony's post about the Fiesta Glass label, and this maybe being an export logo... the anniversary plate I found yesterday has Fiesta Glass on the box rather than Chance Glass. Also, the box is a darkish brown, rather than the white with pattern that others have mentioned.

[David E]

A couple of weeks ago I saw some other sherry glasses, which I didn't buy, reason being that the bodies seemed quite cheap quality. They didn't have gold rims like these.

Robbo: Thanks for this. An interesting thought about the sherry glasses - this might mean Chance either:

1. changed suppliers
2. started producing themselves
3. stopped producing and moved to an independent supplier

Perm any one from three Might also explain why some have gold rims, while others don't — but which came first? Later glasses are higher quality?

Anne: Thanks for the update and I've posted the plate on the site, in the Patterns page. I will also post the logo on the 'Labels & Marks' page.

The use of the term 'Fiesta Glass' would appear not to be export. My next thought is they were for glassware but I'm sure this term has been seen on standard Fiestaware; plates and such. Again, my visit on Friday might answer this.

[chopin-liszt]

:evil:
For some reason, I'm not being notified of more postings - I'm using a proxy server, though, because of the NTHell problems.

I can't get a bigger image of the plate Anne suggested might be "Dahlias", but they're not dahlias. Dahlias are those big, luscious, neon-bright pom-pom things full of earwigs.

[David E]

Hi Sue,

Well, I can hardly be called Gardener of the Year (this is the bloke who cultivated a smashing weed for over two years...), but I think there are quite a few varieties of Dahlias:

http://www.wgltd.co.uk/

This site seems to be devoted to them and shows many types, some with long pointy petals.

[chopin-liszt]

:oops::oops::oops:  

I was just going by my Grandpa's ones, and the ones on my Chance plate are the same as his. Not pompoms though, the cactus or semi-cactus ones. I didn't know there were any others :oops:  The earwigs lived in the long pointy petals and they were a bit like raggedy pompoms.

I'm no gardener at all (our garden is "wildlife friendly"), but there are a few I thought I knew. :oops:

I can see that Anne's plate has the same flowers as the picture of a dwarf dahlia, even without the link. 8 petals around a black centre with yellow stamen-y bits around the centre's edge.

This all goes to prove that several heads are required to....
keep me right.  :oops: Thank you!    

[David E]

Never mind Sue - console yourself with the 100th post on this topic.

My garden is reputed to have a UN outpost down the bottom. Yet to be confirmed... :lol:

[David E]

Flippin' 'eck!

Has anyone ever seen Margaret Casson's Green Leaves design before? I think I may have got a photo at last - see the web site! Apparently the glass is actually green, but sadly it was taken on a black background. Click the pattern to see a larger version.

Make sure you have a strong cup of coffee and plenty of aspirin

I also think I have all three Trippy Flowers designs now towards the bottom of the same page (Patterns).

[Anne]

Ooooh I've never seen the Green Leaves anywhere - and the trippy flowers as well - wow! well done finding them David.