There are some things to know about Wexford if you are looking to bring some to your home: while it is pressed glass, it is not depression era pressed glass. It is not lead crystal, Anchor Hocking called the clear pieces “crystal” as a color reference. It is glass.
Broadly released in 1967 (it may have been available as service-ware as early as 1962), it was a prolifically produced pattern that saturated the market. A majority of the line is still regularly and affordably available in thrift stores and online.
But I want to say, sellers online are misinformed about what Wexford is and is worth. And I want to provide some reality. I’m also going to rant a bit about greedy sellers and price-gouging…
**Please note: Kansas City, Missouri is a lower cost of living than most of the United States, and thrift stores are widely available here.
Lets start with the basic salad/fruit/sorbet bowl. This bowl can be found regularly in many thrift stores for less than two dollars apiece. Our thrift stores typically reduce the price as the items sit, so I often find these smaller pieces for less than one dollar.
Assuming a cost of $1.50 each, the above listings have a 360% to 530% markup. That is disgusting.
I have found the large punch bowl sets (whole or assembled from separate pieces) for fifteen dollars or less.
Reminder: none of this is heavy enough to run fifty dollars for shipping.
These hexagonal footed plates are among my most favorite pieces in the Wexford collection. Typically, I can find them while thrifting for anything under five to six dollars a piece. It is not as common as many of the smaller pieces, so the thrift price is consistently higher.
The colored flashed pieces of Wexford are significantly harder to find. In thrift stores, I am mostly likely to be buying it whenever I find it. The cranberry banded Wexford is the rarest of all. Most often listed as ruby flash, Fire-King & More offers the color cranberry, also showing ruby flash as pieces with a less pink overover flash color. I had never seen a complete punchbowl set before the one below. I would be tempted if the shipping charge didn’t feel like gouging.
this punchbowl set looks amazing and the banded flash is of the best quality I have seen, but the shipping charge is offensive. 
this offer is nearly irresistible for being the lowest cranberry flash listing to be found, with an almost believable shipping charge. 
this listing is a great deal for what I’ve seen. sadly, it is the one cranberry flash Wexford I already own. 
the same item, plus one more piece, for over twice the price, including ridiculous shipping charge.
The dinner plate is the rarest “everyday” piece of Wexford. When you find it online, it will be expensive. In thrifting, I have found them only rarely. In handling experience, the bent scalloped edge is easily chipped from stacking and I have always assumed this contributes to the rarity and price. Be aware that the buffet set plate looks identical but has a raised ring to hold the punch cup.
I store the handful I have (of both) either on the plate rail in our hutch or stacked with packing material layered in between. I mostly consider them as a collectible, not an everyday item that we use. (I don’t have a lot of the former category.
I will say, replacements.com can be a handy place to find a piece that is otherwise unavailable, but they are rarely competitive except maybe on a few larger pieces. My husband got me our first Wexford trifle bowl from them, price consistently with auction listings. If you have the patience for waiting until it is in a thrift store, that will undoubtedly be the better deal. This is a site for replacing, not collecting.
My first lazy susan was assembled out of individually thrifted pieces, including scalloped sectional dishes that are not Wexford, but likely to be Anchor Hocking’s Early American Prescut (EAPC). It has been handy, but is still missing the spinner.
I have found a few complete lazy susans online and they are always pricey. I almost overlooked a steal of a price in a thrift store (with the spinner!). It is now mine. It had the wrong bowl, but I have the correct one at home already! Occasionally found sectional dishes (tapered down toward the outside edge and with the Wexford starburst on the bottom) are pricey on they’re own, but handy to have as backups when prepping food plates to simplify serving for an open house or buffet. I have a set of six extras for both Wexford and EAPC.
I love Wexford, to nearly obsessive levels, but a huge part of that love comes from the availability, affordability, and usability… part of it’s value is in these qualities. I hope anyone else out there collecting Wexford has the patience to wait for affordability because it is out there. And I hope you use it because it is the most durable fancy glass pattern I have ever held in my big oafish hands.
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