How to know if you are a Fostoria Glass Collector?
Visit a knowledgeable glass dealer or glass show to see the quality of Fostoria’s American pattern personally, and it will be easy to tell these apart. Collectors preferring dinnerware and stems on the delicate side often seek well-known patterns such as Versailles, June, Navarre, Chintz, Vernon, and Romance, among others.
Where was the original Fostoria Glass Factory located?
Fostoria’s original factory borrowed its name in 1887 from the town in which it was built: Fostoria, Ohio. The business moved to Moundsville, West Virginia in 1891 where they produced glassware of the highest quality through 1983 when Lancaster Colony bought the business. Three years later, sadly for Fostoria fans, the factory closed for good.
When did Lancaster Colony buy out Fostoria Glass?
Introduced in 1915, American was produced for many, many years in a wide variety of pieces ranging from dinnerware to elaborate punch sets. Lancaster Colony continued to produce this glass as the American Whitehall pattern after it bought out Fostoria.
Which is the best book to learn about Fostoria?
One of the best resources to locate when learning about early Fostoria is an out of print book titled Fostoria: Its First Fifty Years by Hazel Marie Weatherman.
Visit a knowledgeable glass dealer or glass show to see the quality of Fostoria’s American pattern personally, and it will be easy to tell these apart. Collectors preferring dinnerware and stems on the delicate side often seek well-known patterns such as Versailles, June, Navarre, Chintz, Vernon, and Romance, among others.
Fostoria’s original factory borrowed its name in 1887 from the town in which it was built: Fostoria, Ohio. The business moved to Moundsville, West Virginia in 1891 where they produced glassware of the highest quality through 1983 when Lancaster Colony bought the business. Three years later, sadly for Fostoria fans, the factory closed for good.
Introduced in 1915, American was produced for many, many years in a wide variety of pieces ranging from dinnerware to elaborate punch sets. Lancaster Colony continued to produce this glass as the American Whitehall pattern after it bought out Fostoria.
When did Fostoria Glass reproduce the sandwich pattern?
Fostoria Glass Co., because of the quality of its glass, is one of the few chosen by the Henry Ford Museum to reproduce some of the Sandwich glass from the original Sandwich glass molds. As late as 1969 and early 1970, Rebecca at the Well, an original Sandwich pattern, was reproduced on a very limited basis by this company.
