FENTON FLYER FOTOS November - December 2023
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Membership Mice for 2024 By Sharon Fenner  Our 2024 Membership mice are Mosser made in Buffett Blue Carnival and Crystal. They are available to members current in their 2024 dues, at $30, one of each per household.  The picture of the Buffett Blue Carnival mouse is for color only. Better pictures will be posted when the mice are available to photograph. The second mouse is Crystal.    zzzzzzz zzzzzzz 'Tis the Season... By Sharon Fenner Ho...Ho...Ho...Merry Christmas!!! 'Snowflakes, Gifts from Heaven'...    Former Fenton Artist Frances Burton has designed and hand-painted this magical, Mosser made, Rose Santa. His soft pink robe is adorned in glittering snowflakes, while he is carrying a list of names of good little girls and boys who are to receive from the bag of gifts.  Santa is limited to 24, one per household, for $139.00, beginning November 20th. zzzzzzz zzzzzzz More Fenton Look-A-Likes    By Stephen Embry It seems every day more Fenton Look-A-Like items are cropping up. Follow the NFGS Facebook group to see them when they are spotted! zzzzzzz zzzzzzz         I-Spy  By Becki Ann Selby Joanna Johnson spotted this Cranberry Opalescent Hobnail lamp on an episode of Laramie. HAPPY THANKSGIVING  zzzzzzz zzzzzzz August/September on eBay - Fenton from Sublime to Elegant By Doug McIntosh #1. Murphy/Bomkamp 10.25-inch Milk Glass - cut-to-Ruby vase titled '105 Years of Glass' created to celebrate Fenton's 105th Anniversary; #15/25; best-offer-accepted for $1800.00; sold through the Gift Shop #2. Burmese 8-inch melon vase, Rose design; sold on QVC in 2001; Don Fenton facsimile signature; 6 bids; 3 bidders; $1400.00 #3. #192 8-inch melon vase; Charleton 'Stipled Roses' design; Silver Crest with satinized crest; 20 bids; 8 bidders; $1248.00 #4. 8.75-inch Burmese vase; Kim Barley; 2015; landscape design; frit highlights; $1099.00 #5. Burmese 7.25-inch vase; sold on QVC in 2010; titled 'Father of our Country'; 14 bids; 6 bidders; $1025.00 zzzzzzz zzzzzzz Critter Corner By Becki Ann Selby   The 5167 Sunfish is 2.5-inch tall and was first made in the 1930s for Kresge Department Stores. Fenton made them again in 1979, then shelved the mould until 1991.  At right is one Sunfish of a 3-part hand-painted set made for QVC in 2000.  Below is a Favrene example, and a Sunfish with interesting color. The NFGS now owns the Sunfish mould.   zzzzzzz zzzzzzz Butterfly ornaments: three spectacular ornaments - Vaseline Carnival - $5750; Green Carnival with Museum numbers - $6750; and uniridized Vaseline/Lime Green transparent - $6000; sold by Seeck Auction in Brookfield, WI during the International Carnival Glass Association Convention Celeste Blue Chrysanthemum large, footed, round bowl sold at the same auction for $10,000 Wisteria Stretch Glass mayo / master nut dish,with Laurel Leaf decoration sold for $260 #215 grape juice pitchers and tumblers - all considered scarce #1502 Diamond Optic Stretch glass cups and saucer sets Unlisted Diamond Optic high stemmed water goblet in Velva Rose, pictured with a scarce Bridge Goblet for comparison #1563 Lattice and Grape Milk Glass vase - a color fairly scarce for 1930s Fenton #66 Lemon Tray in Black - unlisted and uniridized zzzzzzz zzzzzzz
Please use the PDF to print the form, and mail it, along with your check to: National Fenton Glass Soc.  P. O. Box 4008                        Marietta, OH  45750	Member_Appl_2017.pdf  [56.09K]