View this em and disver siar for sale at 1stDibs - Vtage midcentury mic-subject highball glass, (Eight glass) Gay Fad Studs of Lanster Oh, cir 1950s. (VM99004) Each glass has black and gold
Contents:
- GAY FAD MID-CENTURY GLASSWARE & BARWARE
- HISTORY OF GAY FAD STUDS AND FRAN TAYLOR: ORIGAL DIGNS ON ANCHOR HOCKG AND OTHER BLANKS
- GAY FAD
- GAY FAD STUD, GLASSWARE BRAND
- THE EARLY GAY FAD YEARS PROVI CLU FOR GLASSWARE COLLECTORS
- A GLIMPSE AT HISTORY: ANCHOR HOCKG, GAY FAD STUDS GLASSWARE AT CTN RHVILLE
- GAY FAD GLASS
- VTAGE GAY FAD HIGHBALL GLASS WH GOLD RAMPANT LN AND SHIELD WH VIP
- VTAGE MIDCENTURY MIC-SUBJECT HIGHBALL GLASS, GAY FAD STUDS, 1950S
- VTAGE GAY FAD COCKTAIL GLASS, JTER WH TMPET & BELLS ON WHE GROUND
GAY FAD MID-CENTURY GLASSWARE & BARWARE
Fran Taylor’s Gay Fad Studs was a world-renowned Mid-Century cktail glassware and barware sign pany om 1938-1945. Many piec her llectn were hand rated which created very high mand durg the Mid-Century cktail experience. Gay Fad Studs’ signs were known for the tail patterns and vibr * gay fad barware *
Gay Fad Mid-Century Glassware & Barware.
Fran Taylor’s Gay Fad Studs was a world-renowned Mid-Century cktail glassware and barware sign pany om 1938-1945. Gay Fad Studs’ signs were known for the tail patterns and vibrant lors.
Choose om our large selectn of unique and hard-to-fd Gay Fad Mid-Century cktail glassware and barware, perfect for entertag or for a special gift.
HISTORY OF GAY FAD STUDS AND FRAN TAYLOR: ORIGAL DIGNS ON ANCHOR HOCKG AND OTHER BLANKS
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. Taylor and her staff signed a variety of patterns onto "blank" glassware purchased om Anchor Hockg, Hazel Atlas and Fer * gay fad barware *
There was an anchor stamped on the bottom, and the si of the glass had a small signature that read “Gay Fad. 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.
GAY FAD
More than 3,000 piec of glassware om Gay Fad Studs and Anchor Hockg Glass will be for sale at an ctn hoe Rhville April 28. * gay fad barware *
Today, Gay Fad Studs is one of the leadg manufacturers of betiful ntemporary accsori for entertag.
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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.
GAY FAD STUD, GLASSWARE BRAND
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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.
THE EARLY GAY FAD YEARS PROVI CLU FOR GLASSWARE COLLECTORS
View this em and disver siar for sale at 1stDibs - Six vtage highball glass by Gay Fad, wh a large embossed 22 karat gold rampant ln wearg a crown and holdg a shield wh the letters VIP embossed * gay fad barware *
Example of a Gay Fad signature on glassware.
A GLIMPSE AT HISTORY: ANCHOR HOCKG, GAY FAD STUDS GLASSWARE AT CTN RHVILLE
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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.
GAY FAD GLASS
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! 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. Franc Taylor, the founr of Gay Fad Studs, was born 1915 Pennsylvania and was an artist roughly om childhood.
VTAGE GAY FAD HIGHBALL GLASS WH GOLD RAMPANT LN AND SHIELD WH VIP
They quickly sold, leadg Taylor to jumpstart her own bs, Gay Fad Studs. Gay Fad Studs went natnal for eighteen years, placg s products everywhere, om dime stor to partment stor.
” In 1963, Gay Fad Studs shuttered, leavg behd an artistic legacy enjoyed by a new generatn of vtage glassware lovers. 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.
VTAGE MIDCENTURY MIC-SUBJECT HIGHBALL GLASS, GAY FAD STUDS, 1950S
So if your set is by Gay Fad, that would mean that Fran produced Detro before movg Gay Fad Studs to Lanster, OH 1945.
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.
VTAGE GAY FAD COCKTAIL GLASS, JTER WH TMPET & BELLS ON WHE GROUND
So maybe I’ll have to pluck this vtage juice set out of the se and jt accept the fact that I’m now llectg Gay Fad glassware. Now, about the Gay Fad books by Miss Kty and Gay Fad llector Donna McGrady….
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.