letting the imposters shine

A great migration is underway: the collection has gone in a way that some groupings have outgrown their cases, and others need to be reworked/regrouped entirely. The silver/platinum group is definitely in the former. And it is the first group on the move. The top shelf was the focus of this evening, comprised of as […]

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platinum membership

Way back at the start, I was collecting Wexford because it was durable, widely available, affordable, and honestly the design was my kinda of fancy. Now, I’m running out of pieces that I don’t have. At least as far as I know, anyway. For one thing, I keep finding platinum-banded glassware I didn’t know about, […]

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the golden hoard

I have been adding to our Wexford collection a good bit lately, including many metal-trimmed pieces I had previously not found in decent condition. They. Are. Glorious.

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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 […]

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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 […]

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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!

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long pauses

Live is full. And hectic, too, for certain. We use our Wexford glassware daily, and I always look for opportunities to bring out bigger pieces, but we haven’t entertained in our home since before COVID. That said, I garden mostly to have fresh flowers to bring into the house, and they always go into Wexford.

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