flickers of color

Two new colored votives arrived yesterday, one Wexford and one imposter.

fade into color

While I’ve been aware of Wexford with color ombre since the six amber wine glasses five years ago, I’ve only recently begun to find other pieces. Likewise, I’ve found nothing to identify who did it: Anchor Hocking, or a third party seller embelling AH blanks. Either way, this arrived today: The ombre pieces always include […]

adding to the darkness

A couple more pieces picked up in pewter mist. The glasses are filling out, but the pitcher is the only large serving piece I have. More to look for…

the local color

I was reminded recently of the option of local listing on fb marketplace. Sometimes, buying glassware online can be stressful. Many sellers are not practiced at safely packing glass for shipping. Considering that I am mostly now looking for harder to find pieces, I appreciated the reminder and did a search. And how glad am […]

the new unknown

I have only recently been aware of the variety of Wexford’s ombre flash colors. I also learned it was applied to the large footed fruit bowl. And then I found one online. And it arrived today!

the real deals and the auction scams

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 […]

today’s bonus

Every misstep and delay that could happen as a pharmacy refills a prescription happened to me over the weekend and into today. What turned around my day? A processing time of thirty minutes with thrift stores enroute. For the first time ever I found a sorbet cup styled candleholder in a thrift store. This makes […]

finding unknown things

Based on Anchor Hocking’s Fire King and More, Second Edition, I move through the world thinking that I know the Wexford pieces that I comes across in it. I rather enjoy the moments when I’m wrong. This morning, I stopped at a thrift store on my grocery run, and I found something I had not […]

top 10 for 2020

The Top Ten Wexford moments for 2020? Honestly, it’s closer to a Top Five list with a six-way tie for fifth place, but here we go: Number Ten: The Gathering of Parts for Homemade “Cobble”ware None of these parts were found with Wexford glassware, but a few used Early American Prescut (EAPC) also by Anchor […]

squeeeeeeeee

As far as I can prove, Anchor Hocking produced exactly one piece of Wexford in cobal blue: the cake plate. And now, we have one. And it is glorious! Post-college, I had a thing for cobalt. At least, I wanted to. Sadly, affordable cobalt isn’t typically, well, cobalt. It’s just blue glass… Eventually, I grew […]