Gay Fad Retro Glassware | Hepts Haven

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

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.

THE EARLY GAY FAD YEARS PROVI CLU FOR GLASSWARE COLLECTORS

So this post is an attempt to be the available on Gay Fad to a short history of the pany.

What is Gay Fad?

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

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. 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. 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.

GAY FAD STUD, GLASSWARE BRAND

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.

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

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! 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.

AFTER 35 YEARS OF LLECTG, GAY FAD ENTHIAST PUTS 3,000+ LLECTN UP FOR CTN

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).

GAY FAD RETRO GLASSWARE

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.

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. 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.