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Glass manufacturer

Fenton Fine art Glass Company

Type	Private company
Founded	Martins Ferry, Ohio (1905)
Headquarters	Williamstown, W Virginia, United states
Number of employees	120
Website	http://fentonglassjewelry.com

The Fenton Fine art Drinking glass Company is a glass manufacturer founded in 1905 by brothers Frank L. Fenton and John W. Fenton.

History [edit]

The original mill was in an erstwhile glass mill in Martins Ferry, Ohio in 1905.^[1] The factory at one time was owned past the former West Virginia Glass Company.^[2] At first they painted glass blanks from other glass makers, only started making their own glass when they became unable to buy the materials they needed.^[ii] They moved beyond the Ohio river to Williamstown, West Virginia, and built a manufacturing plant in 1906. The first year for glass product was 1907.^[one] In 1908 John Fenton left the company and founded the Millersburg glass company in Millersburg, OH.^[1]

Frank Fenton was the designer and decorator. From 1905 to 1920, the designs made there were heavily influenced by two other glass companies: Tiffany and Steuben. But the many unlike colors were the work of Jacob Rosenthal, a famous glass chemist who is known for developing chocolate and golden agate glass.^[three] Towards the end of 1907, the Fenton brothers were the first to introduce funfair glass, which after became a popular collector'due south item.^[four]

During the Not bad Depression and World War II, Fenton produced practical items (such equally mixing bowls and tableware) due to shortages. At the aforementioned time, they continued creating new colors. Towards the stop of the Peachy Low they likewise produced perfume bottles for the Wrisley Visitor in 1938. The bottles were made in French opalescent glass with the hobnail blueprint.^[v]

In 1940, Fenton started selling Hobnail items in French Opalescent, Green Opalescent and Cranberry Opalescent. The Hobnail design glass would become the top-selling line and allowed the Fenton company to be during WWII and to expand after the war.

In the belatedly 1940s, the top three members of Fenton's management died. Frank Fenton and Wilmer C. "Bill" Fenton immediately stepped in and took over the positions of President and Vice President, respectively. Over the next thirty years, they connected to expand Fenton Art Glass, despite a big number of drinking glass factories endmost downwards.

In 1986, George W. Fenton, Frank's son, took over every bit President of the company.^[half-dozen]

Maker marks [edit]

In 1970, the company added their logo to the bottom of their "Original Formula" Funfair Glass pieces to distinguish them from their older Carnival Glass pieces. Past 1974, Fenton was putting their logo on all the pieces they made. Pieces made in the 1980s have the number eight nether the letter "n" in the logo, pieces from the 1990s have the number nine and pieces made in the 2000s take a 0 in the aforementioned place.^[7] From June 1996 to July 1998 Fenton marked preferred seconds sold in their gift shop with a sandblasted solid or hollow star.^[8] In August 1998 an F replaced the star.^[8]

Some other type of mark is found on glass baskets. Where the glass handles of the baskets are attached to the base of the basket a postage is made.^[9] Each handler had a specific blueprint to help identify which handler fastened the handle.^[ix] The marks began in the 1950s and were instituted past Frank Thou. and Pecker Fenton.^[ix]

Particular codes [edit]

Fenton used a coding system to describe the items information technology produced.^[x] The code used numbers for the pattern and letters for the colour.^[10] There were besides alphabetic character codes for whatsoever decorations.^[xi]

Patterns [edit]

Farsi Medallion in marigold

Green opalescent Basket Weave plate

Some of the patterns used on items produced by Fenton were:

Name	Years Produced	Description	Reference
Cherry Chain		Distinguished past groups of cherries in a circular pattern.	[12]
Money Dot	1947, 1952–54, 1956–64	A pattern made by using opalescent glass that was a re-create the Polka Dot Victorian pattern.	[13]
Dragon and Lotus		This blueprint is possibly available in more colors than other patterns.	[14]
Hobnail		An fifty-fifty arrangement of bumps similar to that establish on the bottom parts of hobnail boots.	[15]
Open up Border		Too referred to every bit Basket weave. The pattern is on the outside of the bowl, basket, or plate and the edge has two rows of holes around it. Three rows of holes were also made.	[16]
Panther		This is an interior design showing two big cats, the outside pattern is Butterfly and Drupe. All pieces accept balled feet.	[17]
Farsi Medallion		Embroidered medallions in a ring. Used on plates, bowls, and bonbons.	[18]

Colors and combinations [edit]

Fenton fabricated hundreds of different colors of glass over the time they were open.^[19]

Carnival colors ^[20] The color of carnival glass is the colour of the applied treatment not the colour of the piece of glass.^[20]

Proper name	Years Produced	Description	Reference
Amberina		A fiery scarlet blended to yellow.	[20]
Amethyst		A deep to pale purple.	[twenty]
Bluish		Pale to deep blueish.	[20]
Cobalt Blue		A deep shade of blue and the most sought later.	[twenty]
Independence Blueish	1975-76	A cobalt blueish carnival treatment made during the U.S.Bicentennial.	[21]
Green		This color ranges from a deep light-green to a light xanthous light-green.	[twenty]
Marigold		A yellowish orange color.	[20]
Crimson		A crimson color that is deep when held to a light.	[xx]
Rich Marigold		Orange-red in appearance.	[xx]

Opalescent colors ^[22]

Proper noun	Years Produced	Description	Reference
Amethyst Opalescent			[22]
Blueish Opalescent	1959-64, 1978–81	Appears at odd times subsequently 1907 till 1959.	[22] [23]
Cameo Opalescent	1920's, 1979–82	Brown to tan in colour.	[23]
Cranberry Opalescent	1956-1989	Mainly made in hobnail and money dot pattern molds.	[23]
French Opalescent	1956-68, 1980	Also called Crystal. Clear class. Made in hobnail, Money Dot molds, also Mandarin and Empress vases.	[22] [23]
Green Opalescent	1959-61	Can exist a jade color to a lime greenish.	[22] [23]
Plum Opalescent	1959-62	Created by attempting to brand a cranberry opalescent that could exist used in pressed molds. A deep majestic colour.	[23]
Topaz Opalescent	1940-44, 1959–62, 1980	A yellowish uranium glass. Used in Hobnail, Coin Dot, Cactus, and Lily of the Valley design molds.	[23]

Crests This color combination consists of glass of a different color added to the rim of a piece.^[24]

Proper name	Years Produced	Clarification	Reference
Aqua Crest	1940-42, 48-53	Milk Drinking glass with a blue edge.	[25]
Blackness Rose	1953-54	Peach Blow with a black border.	[25]
Blue Ridge	1939	French Opalescent with a bluish edge.	[25]
Crystal Crest	1942	Milk drinking glass with a double row of crystal and white glass.	[25]
Emerald Crest	1949-55	Besides called Greenish Crest in 1949.	[25]
Gold Crest	1943-45	Xanthous glass on the edge of Milk glass items.	[25]
Ivory Crest	1940-41	Custard glass with a crystal edge.	[25]
Peach Crest	1940-69	A cased glass with milk glass on the outside and ruby on the inside with a crystal edge.	[23]
Silvery Crest	1943 onwards	A crystal edge on milk drinking glass.

Marble or slag A type of drinking glass that is opaque and streaked. It is commonly a drinking glass pressed in molds rather than being diddled.^[26]

Proper noun	Years Produced	Clarification	Reference
Blue Marble	1970-73	Blue with swirls of white.	[23]
Chocolate Glass	1907-1910, 1976	Also called Carmel slag. Created by drinking glass maker Jacob Rosenthal.	[27]

Overlays Overlays are a type of cased glass. Cased glass is fabricated up of dissimilar colors in layers.^[28]

Name	Years Produced	Description	Reference
Apple tree Dark-green overlay	1961	A low-cal green glass over milk glass.	[23]
Blue overlay	1943-53, 1967, 1971	Bluish glass over milk glass.	[23] [25]
Coral overlay	1961	A peach glass over milk glass.	[23]
Gilded overlay	1949	Milk glass with an bister overlay.	[25]
Green overlay	1949-53	Milk glass covered in green glass.	[25]
Ivy	1949-52	Dark green over white drinking glass.	[25]
Rose overlay	1943-48	Milk glass cased with light pink glass.	[25]
Shelly Green overlay	1967	Colonial greenish over milk drinking glass, used merely on lamps.	[23]

Vasa Murrhina is a cased drinking glass, the name means vessel of gems. This type of glass has a long history pre dating Fenton. Frank Grand. Fenton had glass chemist Charles Goe develop a way to make it since the way it was made was long forgotten. The piece starts out as a ball of drinking glass that is rolled in small pieces of cleaved glass called frit. Then another layer of crystal was gathered over the frit.^[29]

Name	Years Produced	Clarification	Reference
Adventurine Green	1964-68	Blue and green frit over a milk glass base	[29]
Autumn Orangish	1965-67	Chocolate-brown and orangish frit over an opal glass base.	[29]
Blueish Mist	1965-67	Blueish frit over a crystal base.	[29]
Cerise Mist	1965-67	Cerise frit over a crystal base of operations.	[29]

Fenton has an extensive line of MILK GLASS that also is offered in an array of patterns.

Decorations [edit]

Fenton had a long history of decorating glass that goes back to its beginnings in 1905.^[one] The Fenton Art Glass company started out as a decorating company that purchased blanks from glass manufacturers and placed their own decorations on them.^[2] Fenton did not manufacturer drinking glass until 1907 a twelvemonth after the Williamstown, WV establish was built.^[2]

Decorations institute on three or more shapes

Name	Years Produced	Description	Glass blazon	Code	Reference
Apple Flower	1969-seventy	Painted pink flowers.	Silver crest	AB	[11]
Bluebells on Hobnail	1971-72	Painted blue flowers.	Hobnail milk glass	BB	[eleven]
Bluebirds	1977-79	Painted bluebirds	Custard glass	BC	[11]
Transfer leaves	1970-72	Transfer decoration of oak leaves	Burmese	BD	[11]
Blue Dogwood	1980-82	Blue flowers with five petals. A mistake in naming that stuck considering Dogwood only has 4 petals.	Cameo Satin	BL, BQ	[11] [30]
Blueish Roses	1978-83	The first item to be painted with the ornament was an egg.	Blue Satin and Custard drinking glass	BL	[11]
Butterflies	1977-78	Collywobbles and yellow and blueish flowers	Milk glass	BY	[xi]
Violets in the snow	1969-84	Tiny violets, as well called decorated violets.	Silver crest and Milk glass	DV	[11]

Closure [edit]

On August 9, 2007, Fenton Art Glass sent out a printing release stating they would "cease... operations over the next few months."

Their plans involved laying off 25 employees immediately, and in the following weeks, the rest of their workers would be laid off.^[31] Still, on December 4, 2007, Fenton Art Glass released a printing argument, saying that due to an unexpected buying frenzy and internal restructuring, the visitor would stay open until at least the spring of 2008.^[32] In an open letter in Baronial 2008, company president George Fenton said that thanks to the ownership frenzy, the company had been able to institute some reforms, and wouldn't be endmost in the foreseeable futurity.^[33]

On July 6, 2011, Fenton Art Glass sent out a printing release stating they would "wind downwardly product of its collectible and giftware glass products."

According to WTAP Tv, "The company cites financial challenges since its restructuring in 2007 and recent developments as factors in its determination to shut downwardly its traditional glassmaking business. Fenton Art Glass says information technology's exploring the sales of one or more of its product lines."^[34]

Fenton ceased "traditional" glassmaking at the Williamstown, WV factory in July 2011. However, the factory remained open as a jewelry making operation, producing handcrafted glass beads and Teardrop earrings. The Fenton Souvenir Store, located in the same building, also had a big quantity of glass remaining in their inventory. Visitors to the mill were still able to watch the beadmaking demonstrations and purchase Fenton Art Glass.

In June 2017, Wood County Schools Superintendent John Flintstone signed an agreement to buy the land that the onetime Fenton Glass Mill occupied. In October 2017, it was announced that demolition of the factory buildings would brainstorm by the end of 2017, and that the new school, to be named the Williamstown-Waverly Elementary School, will occupy the manufactory'southward employee and visitor parking areas. Art glass using the original Fenton mold designs, including the Fenton keepsake, continues to be produced at some other factory in nearby Ohio, while handcrafted jewelry and hand painted items will keep to be offered at the new Fenton Art Glass Gift Shop at 2242 Williams Highway, Williamstown, WV 26187.^{[35] [36] [37]}

Continuing the drinking glass bead jewelry tradition [edit]

In 2015, Fenton's glass bead jewelry concern was purchased by John Barton Company of Philadelphia, PA. Today, the visitor operates a manufacturing and fulfillment center in Philadelphia, producing glass beads for the wholesale and retail markets, likewise equally selling directly to consumers through an online store.

Encounter also [edit]

• Fairy lamp

References [edit]

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18. ^ David Doty. "Farsi Medallion, Fenton". The Field Guide To Carnival Drinking glass . Retrieved 25 April 2015.
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24. ^ William Heacock; Eugene Converse Murdock (1995). Fenton glass the second twenty v years. Marietta, Ohio: Glass Printing inc. p. 17. ISBN9780915410293.
25. ^ ^{a b c d eastward f one thousand h i j k fifty} William Heacock; Eugene Converse Murdock (1995). Fenton glass the second 20 five years. Marietta, Ohio: Drinking glass Press inc. pp. 5–6. ISBN9780915410293.
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33. ^ "An open up alphabetic character to friends of Fenton Art Glass" (PDF) . Retrieved 2008-xi-15 .
34. ^ "Fenton to "Stop Traditional Glass Production"". Retrieved 6 July 2011.
35. ^ "Official Fenton Fine art Glass Website: Well-nigh Fenton Art Glass". Retrieved 2018-02-11 .
36. ^ "Wood County Board of Education signs paperwork to buy Fenton site". Retrieved 2018-02-11 .
37. ^ "Fenton demolition to begin this month". Retrieved 2018-02-11 .

External links [edit]

• Fenton Glass Jewelry - Handmade Chaplet & Charms for Bracelets and Jewelry
• Fenton Art Glass Company's website
• The Fenton Art Glass Collectors of America
• The National Fenton Glass Society
• The Pacific Northwest Fenton Association
• Fenton Fanatics Website
• Fenton Art Glass History
• Fenton Art Drinking glass Company - Basic Summary

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