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Contents:

• GAY FAD
• HISTORY OF GAY FAD STUDS AND FRAN TAYLOR: ORIGAL DIGNS ON ANCHOR HOCKG AND OTHER BLANKS
• A GLIMPSE AT HISTORY: ANCHOR HOCKG, GAY FAD STUDS GLASSWARE AT CTN RHVILLE
• THE EARLY GAY FAD YEARS PROVI CLU FOR GLASSWARE COLLECTORS
• Q. DO YOU HAVE ANY RMATN ON GAY FAD STUD (LANSTER, OH), WHICH HAND RATED GLASSWARE OM 1945-62?
• GAY FAD STUD, GLASSWARE BRAND
• GAY FAD RETRO GLASSWARE
• GAY FAD STUDS
• GAY MOSW MOSW CY GUI

GAY FAD

Gay Fad Studs. Gay Fad Studs opened Lanster, OH 1945.

Gay Fad's founr was Fran Taylor, who worked at home for seven years hand ratg home goods and glassware ems before openg the stud. While que prolific durg the mid-century, Gay Fad Studs closed 1962. There was an anchor stamped on the bottom, and the si of the glass had a small signature that read “Gay Fad.

HISTORY OF GAY FAD STUDS AND FRAN TAYLOR: ORIGAL DIGNS ON ANCHOR HOCKG AND OTHER BLANKS

But “Gay Fad”? Gay Fad Anchor Hockg shot glass wh stars and strip.

There are tons of vtage ems for sale onle that tout the Gay Fad name. But there isn’t a lot of rmatn on what Gay Fad actually was. So this post is an attempt to be the available on Gay Fad to a short history of the pany.

What is Gay Fad? Gay Fad was a major glass ratg bs that started Detro and ran om 1938-1945. It’s said that she then took $30 and opened up shop as Gay Fad Studs.

A GLIMPSE AT HISTORY: ANCHOR HOCKG, GAY FAD STUDS GLASSWARE AT CTN RHVILLE

Today, Gay Fad Studs is one of the leadg manufacturers of betiful ntemporary accsori for entertag.

Gay Fad Studs Pated Piec. See more pated Gay Fad k glass on Etsy. See more pated Gay Fad k glass on Ebay.

Gay Fad Studs pated on blank glass piec manufactured by Anchor Hockg, Feral, and other well-known glass pani.

THE EARLY GAY FAD YEARS PROVI CLU FOR GLASSWARE COLLECTORS

As far as we n tell, Gay Fad wasn’t associated an official pacy wh the larger pani, other than purchasg their blanks. How To Regnize a Gay Fad Piece. Look for a Gay Fad signature wh a loopy G and a backwards F.

Example of a Gay Fad signature on glassware.

Q. DO YOU HAVE ANY RMATN ON GAY FAD STUD (LANSTER, OH), WHICH HAND RATED GLASSWARE OM 1945-62?

Unfortunately, there are many Gay Fad piec out there whout any markg.

So jt bee a piece don’t say Gay Fad don’t mean ’s not Gay Fad. There are so many wonrful Gay Fad piec out there – take a look on Etsy or Ebay and you’re sure to fd somethg you’ll love! On April 28, his bs, Mike Clum Auctns Inc, will be ctng off a vast llectn of glassware om Gay Fad Studs and Anchor Hockg Glass.

GAY FAD STUD, GLASSWARE BRAND

RUSHVILLE — Retro is : people love havg a piece of history to ll their own, and wh a llectn om a retired Oh Universy profsor gog to ctn next week, they will get their llectn spans more than 3, 000 piec of glassware, om Gay Fad Studs and Anchor Hockg are plete pcher and cup sets, as well as bar ems like nters and glass. April Clum, owner of the ctn hoe, said he's seen some Gay Fad glassware over the years, but this has to be the largt llectn his bs had seen. "We've done a lot of farm sal here over the years, and there has been a smatterg of Gay Fad glassware, but nothg like this.

"Gay Fad Studs was found Detro, Michigan 1939, before s founr Fran Taylor moved operatns to Lanster 1945. Demand for the product expand, and Gay Fad took off Lanster.

GAY FAD RETRO GLASSWARE

"He add he wasn't sure how well the piec would do once they went to ctn: the past, Gay Fad studs weren't pecially popular.

GAY FAD STUDS

"But I had a uple ctomers g for other piec they'd bought, and when they saw , they showed me all sorts of onle posts lookg for Gay Fad Studs piec. You n share story ias or ments wh him at 740-681-4342 or send an e-mail to Follow him on Twter @BarrettLawlisThis article origally appeared on Lanster Eagle-Gazette: Anchor Hockg, Gay Fad Studs glassware at ctn Rhville.

Always wantg to learn more, I ntacted Kty Hanson of the Santa Fe Tradg Post about my spected Gay Fad juice set. Miss Kty, as she is most known, is -thor of the new and credibly, exhstively, rearched two-volume encyclopedia set about Fran Taylor and Gay Fad Studs, Gay Fad: Fran Taylor’s Extraordary Legacy. My opn is that you may well have an early Gay Fad orange sign, but that’s gog to be difficult to fively prove.

So if your set is by Gay Fad, that would mean that Fran produced Detro before movg Gay Fad Studs to Lanster, OH 1945.

GAY MOSW MOSW CY GUI

As we say “The Fran Taylor Story” chapter of our book (page 5, volume 1), we have yet to disver a newspaper article about Fran or Gay Fad or a Gay Fad ad dated prr to 1945. That article is reproduced the “Gay Fad Articl” chapter (page 180, Volume 2). We also know that Gay Fad produced a variety of Orange signs over the years, and we show pictur of 10 of them the “Gay Fad Digns – Intified” chapter (page 103 of Volume 1).

So aga, my opn is that your set may well be an early Gay Fad orange sign, but that’s gog to be almost impossible to prove – at least at this pot time. The dat of the vtage Deprsn glass ci wh Fran Taylor and Gay Fad’s early years durg which the ld patg was done. However, there’s somethg about Gay Fad Stud’s signs, and, pecially, Fran Taylor herself that speaks to me… I do also have a ballera shaker that I’ve sce e to believe was a Gay Fad Studs piece too.