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

Gay Fad Studs produced hand pated glassware throughout the 1940's - 1960's and pated several patterns for Anchor Hockg's Fire-Kg glassware. I fell love wh that adorable Peach Blossom mug and that started yet another new pattern to llect. I am very reful to hand wash all of the as I have seen lots… * fire king gay fad history *

Like the hand-pated Gay Fad piec, NEVER wash Peach Ltre a dishwasher.

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

For a more recent take on Gay Fad and Fran Taylor, the Febary 17, 2020, issue of AntiqueWeek (Eastern Edn) featured an article by Kelley Summers Jent entled, "Fran Taylor Brought Art and Talent to Gay Fad, " which you n read on the AntiqueWeek se. Gaytime glassware by Gay Fad for livg.

GAY FAD STUD, GLASSWARE BRAND

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Lanster, Oh: Gay Fad Studs, 1953. “A Begner’s Gui to Gay Fad. Derated Glassware: Dispellg the Gay Fad Myth.

Hand-Pated Glassware: Dispellg the Gay Fad Myth.

Inclus magaze ads, sal brochur, price lists, eds, historil documents, glassware and boxed sets, and several Gay Fad talogs. Inclus chapter on Gay Fad.

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Gay Fad: Fran Taylor’s Extraordary Legacy. Inclus Gay Fad. Inclus Gay Fad Studs.

Inclus Fran Taylor/Gay Fad.

We also have a folr of materials on the Gay Fad Stud our J. The Corng Mm of Glass has a few piec of Gay Fad Stud glass, which were gifts of Gay Fad Stud.

THE EARLY GAY FAD YEARS PROVI CLU FOR GLASSWARE COLLECTORS

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You n fd more exampl of Gay Fad Stud glass the llectn of The Mm of Amerin Glass Wt Virgia.

Franc Taylor, the founr of Gay Fad Studs, was born 1915 Pennsylvania and was an artist roughly om childhood.

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

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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. Fire-Kg Gay Fad Fs Pattern.

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Fire-Kg Gay Fad Peach Blossom. Fire-Kg Gay Fad Fs.

Gay Fad Studs produced hand pated glassware throughout the 1940’s – 1960’s and pated several patterns for Anchor Hockg’s Fire-Kg glassware.

Always wantg to learn more, I ntacted Kty Hanson of the Santa Fe Tradg Post about my spected Gay Fad juice set.

GAY FAD MID-CENTURY GLASSWARE & BARWARE

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. 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).

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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.

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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….

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.

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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 Studs Pated Piec.

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