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Title: Newbie here. Please help with Heisey color. Thanks
Post by: Daphne4430 on May 25, 2021, 07:43:11 PM

Hello everyone, I am a very new collector of Heisey Glass.  I have two Hexagon baskets possibly no. 462.  Both measure 10.5" in height.  One is crystal clear the other is a very light purple color.  From the book I have it only lists color as crystal only.  Could this light purple color be Alexandrite or Zircon? I can't find any information about color.  Any help would be great. Thanks, Daphne

Title: Re: Newbie here. Please help with Heisey color. Thanks
Post by: NevB on May 25, 2021, 09:07:32 PM

Hello the colour may have been caused by prolonged sunlight on the manganese in the glass. Manganese was added to disperse the green tinge in clear glass caused by iron oxide in the sand of the glass mix. Here is a link to a previous post.

https://www.glassmessages.com/index.php/topic,16720.msg97287.html#msg97287

Apparently Heisey also made light purple glass.

https://www.replacements.com/crystal-heisey-trojan-hawthorne-stem-3366-low-sherbet/p/41367261

Title: Re: Newbie here. Please help with Heisey color. Thanks
Post by: Lustrousstone on May 26, 2021, 04:10:06 PM

This is sun purpled. It's been sitting on somebody's window sill

Title: Re: Newbie here. Please help with Heisey color. Thanks
Post by: Daphne4430 on May 26, 2021, 04:43:42 PM

Thanks for the information.  Does the sun purple color devalue the piece?  I kinda like the look.  Thanks again everyone for the help!

Title: Re: Newbie here. Please help with Heisey color. Thanks
Post by: NevB on May 26, 2021, 05:00:55 PM

Quite a lot of people prefer the purple pieces and collect them, but I don't think it makes much difference to the value.