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
Contents:
- Q. DO YOU HAVE ANY RMATN ON GAY FAD STUD (LANSTER, OH), WHICH HAND RATED GLASSWARE OM 1945-62?
- GAY FAD STUD, GLASSWARE BRAND
- FIRE-KG GAY FAD FS AND PEACH BLOSSOM PATTERNS
- THE EARLY GAY FAD YEARS PROVI CLU FOR GLASSWARE COLLECTORS
- 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
- GAY FAD MID-CENTURY GLASSWARE & BARWARE
- UNIQUE GAY FAD FIRE KING CASSEROLE DISH IVY MOTIF
- FIRE KG GAY FAD
- .36. VINTAGE | FIRE KG | GAY FAD | TWO MIXG BOWLS
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.
Lanster, Oh: Gay Fad Studs, 1953.
GAY FAD STUD, GLASSWARE BRAND
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. * fire king gay fad history *
“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.
FIRE-KG GAY FAD FS AND PEACH BLOSSOM PATTERNS
* fire king gay fad history *
Inclus chapter on Gay Fad. Gay Fad: Fran Taylor’s Extraordary Legacy. Inclus Gay Fad.
THE EARLY GAY FAD YEARS PROVI CLU FOR GLASSWARE COLLECTORS
This is a unique Gay Fad handpated Fire Kg bakg pan. Even though Gay Fad is noted for the popular us seri she did for Fire Kg, I have heard that t also were ctom pated Fire Kg eBay * fire king gay fad history *
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. 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
Anchor Hockg-Fire Kg/Gay Fad F Gallery at Hummgbird Hill Antiqu : Page 1 * fire king gay fad history *
They quickly sold, leadg Taylor to jumpstart her own bs, Gay Fad Studs.
A GLIMPSE AT HISTORY: ANCHOR HOCKG, GAY FAD STUDS GLASSWARE AT CTN RHVILLE
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.
Fire-Kg Gay Fad Peach Blossom.
GAY FAD MID-CENTURY GLASSWARE & BARWARE
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. 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.
UNIQUE GAY FAD FIRE KING CASSEROLE DISH IVY MOTIF
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).
FIRE KG GAY FAD
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.
.36. VINTAGE | FIRE KG | GAY FAD | TWO MIXG BOWLS
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. 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.