Donna McGrady started llectg Gay Fad glassware 1987, gatherg more than 6,000 piec before sellg some her move to Indiana.
Contents:
- HISTORY OF GAY FAD STUDS AND FRAN TAYLOR: ORIGAL DIGNS ON ANCHOR HOCKG AND OTHER BLANKS
- 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
- A GLIMPSE AT HISTORY: ANCHOR HOCKG, GAY FAD STUDS GLASSWARE AT CTN RHVILLE
- AFTER 35 YEARS OF LLECTG, GAY FAD ENTHIAST PUTS 3,000+ LLECTN UP FOR CTN
- GAY FAD RETRO GLASSWARE
- HISTORY OF GAY FAD
- GAY RIGHTS
HISTORY OF GAY FAD STUDS AND FRAN TAYLOR: ORIGAL DIGNS ON ANCHOR HOCKG AND OTHER BLANKS
* gay fad history *
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.
THE EARLY GAY FAD YEARS PROVI CLU FOR GLASSWARE COLLECTORS
Gay Fad (GF) is the bra child of Fran Taylor. In 1938, wh a $30.00 vtment, Fran Taylor started her own pany (Gay Fad Studs) which would go on to bee one of the major forc glass ware sign durg the 1940s and 1950s. Today, she has left a great legacy of hand-rated glassware… * gay fad history *
It’s said that she then took $30 and opened up shop as Gay Fad Studs.
Today, Gay Fad Studs is one of the leadg manufacturers of betiful ntemporary accsori for entertag.
Q. DO YOU HAVE ANY RMATN ON GAY FAD STUD (LANSTER, OH), WHICH HAND RATED GLASSWARE OM 1945-62?
Fran Taylor worked om home om 1938-1945 hand ratg those wastebaskets and other t ems, as well as an ever creasg number of glass piec. She opened Gay Fad Studs Lanster, Oh, 1945, and for the next 18 years Gay Fad was one of the bt known and most prolific ratg pani … * gay fad history *
Gay Fad Studs Pated Piec. See more pated Gay Fad k glass on Etsy.
GAY FAD STUD, GLASSWARE BRAND
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.
A GLIMPSE AT HISTORY: ANCHOR HOCKG, GAY FAD STUDS GLASSWARE AT CTN RHVILLE
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.
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!
AFTER 35 YEARS OF LLECTG, GAY FAD ENTHIAST PUTS 3,000+ LLECTN UP FOR CTN
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. 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.
GAY FAD RETRO GLASSWARE
The dat of the vtage Deprsn glass ci wh Fran Taylor and Gay Fad’s early years durg which the ld patg was done.
HISTORY OF GAY FAD
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….
GAY RIGHTS
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.
“A Begner’s Gui to Gay Fad.