May - Fenton Finders of Greater Kansas City

FENTON FINDERS OF GREATER KANSAS CITY
The meeting of the Fenton Finders of Greater Kansas City will be
SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 9TH, 2013 at the Raytown City Hall, 10000
E. 59th, and Raytown, Missouri.
The meeting will start at 7:00 P.M.
Melvin and Norma
Norma Lampton brought in some very beautiful Orient
and Flume glass for us to admire and study.
As you can see from
the above picture
picture we had a lot of wonderful and unique glass to study.
Orient and Flume has only been in production since 1972 when Douglas
Boyd
Boyd purchased an historic carriage house in Chico California and
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opened a glass studio and named it after the street address, Orient
Street and Flume Street.
The new glass studio was dedicated to
recreating the iridescent glass of Tiffany, Steuben, and Loetz.
both traditional and comtempory motifs in their design.
design.
featured artist are Bruce Sillars and Scott Beyers.
They use
Two of their
Bruce Sillars is a
master glassmaker and designer who specializes
specializes in making iridescent
vases and paperweights that incorporate both geometric and naturalistic
floral motifs.
Scott Beyers
Beyers another feature artist not only tries but does
bring a feeling of natural movement in his designs such as the Red
Beta Fish vase that he designed and made. To see samples of the
Red Beta vase and other pieces of their work go to the Orient and
Flume website
website and enjoy.
If you are interested in purchasing some of
this wonderful glass you can get the information from this website.
website.
As you can see from the picture on page one and the pictures on
page four Orient and Flume has done a very good job of recreating
recreating the
iridescent glass of the past as well as their efforts to bring to life the
naturalistic and geometric shapes in their works of art.
We are very
grateful to Melvin and Norma Lampton for sharing this information with
us.
We also want to thank Norma
Norma for all the work she did getting the
treats for our meeting, Sundays and dump cake. The treats were great.
Melvin took a moment
moment after the meeting to present me with a
surprise thank you gift of a ruby overlay atomizer that he had created
from Fenton’s 192 small squat cologne produced in the 1940’s.
This
was a wonderful and very thoughtful gift and he should not have done
it - but I am glad that he did.
Check the picture out on page 8.
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Joy Livengood, our wonderfully efficient and talented vice president,
has made reservations for us at Ryan’s Steak House again this year for
our Christmas party.
When she did she found out that the Ryan’s
Steak House in Olathe has closed down and they are building a tire
resourceful
ceful can do
store there. With her usual quick thinking and resour
determination
Shawnee.
she
checked
around
and
found
another
restaurant
in
She made the reservations for us to make sure that we had
a place for our party then she took the time to check it out to be sure
that it would be acceptable since it was
was an older restaurant than the
one in Olathe.
She found that it was better for us than the newer one
that we have gone to for several years.
work, Joy.
Thank you for your hard
The party is scheduled for December 14th, from 4 to 7PM,
the address is 10810
10810 W 75th Street, Shawnee, Kansas.
should be easier to find than the one in Olathe.
years
but
but
as
I
recall
if
you
take
highway
This restaurant
It has been a few
35
north
from
435
(Lenexa)you will get off 35 at 75th street and head east until you
reach the restaurant.
There will be a map in the December newsletter
with better information.
Our meeting in November is very important,
important, We will be electing a
new secretary and vice president or reelecting our old ones.
That will
be up to our members; so if you would like to nominate someone or if
you would like a chance to contribute your wisdom and experience to
our club please come and
and raise your voice. It will be your last chance
to do so until next year when we will have elections for president and
treasurer.
treasurer.
If you choose to run there is a two year term and you will
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have lots of fun as well as do a little work that is interesting aand
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Wild and wonderful Orient and Flume glass
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Nick Duncan and Melvin Lampton looking at show and tell glass
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sometimes very demanding.
the effort.
We can assure you that it is well worth
Please try to come to our November meeting if you can so
you
u can tell
that we can all voice our choice and vote our will. (As yo
there
has
been
too
much
politics
on
TV
lately
and
your
secretary/newsletter editor has been infected)
For our meeting
meeting in November the program will be a group program
on
Fenton
advertising
suggested this
glass.
When
Nick
Duncan,
our
president,
there was a little confusion on just what was needed
and many of our members, including myself, said what?
However after
a little
little thought this program promises to be very interesting as well as
challenging.
or someone
Fenton has made glass to advertise something ffor
since the very beginning of its production.
On checking out the
Whitmyer’s book, Fenton Art Glass 1907 - 1939 the first
first piece of glass
advertising something was found on page 69, there are two carnival
glass plates, one with the Indiana State House
House and the other the Illinois
Soldiers and Sailors Home.
Now this was not a page by page search,
I was just glancing thru the book to see if I could find something and
found that it was not difficult at all to find glass used to advertise.
Fenton has used
used bells to advertise often and well.
There were several
line items produced by Fenton with agreements with various companies.
A couple of items that comes to mind is the Campbell
Kids and the
both
th were
Clydesdales, both lines produced in the early 1980’s and bo
very popular with many pieces of Fenton decorated with the companies
logo. Fenton sought many other License agreement with
with other companies
including Jack Daniels, which proved to be very popular.
Mackenzie
was
a
very
popular
Spuds
item that Fenton
Fenton included in its
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production line but sold mostly thru the breweries’ outlets; when people
began to regard Spuds as being objectionable because of the influence
on young people the brewing company scaled back its use of Spuds
and while Fenton had a few items of “Christmas Spuds” ready to go
they never reached the marketplace.
were sold in the Fenton Gift Shop.
already
ready produced
What items were al
Anyone have one? Fenton was
also doing a lot of sandcarving on bells, plates, mugs, paperweights and
ashtrays to be used as awards and gifts with the company or college
name on it. There is also the very hard
hard to find Crystal Nipper Dog for
RCA. Looking at the glass made for other companies 1970 - 2005
there were several different plates
plates and bells made for Minerva, Ohio for
their Sesquicentennial, both bells and plates.
Many collector clubs
including our own
own have had Fenton made glass for them to sell and we
could very well say that glass is used for advertising.
We do not want
to forget the most easy to find and most common piece of advertising
glass that Fenton has made and most Fenton collectors have - their
their
Fenton logos.
What would you call those but advertising glass?
So
we have gone from thinking that there will be very few pieces of glass
available to use as examples of advertising glass to thinking that we
may have more than one table full of glass.
glass.
This should give us all
an opportunity to do some research on our glass and to see if
something that we thought of as a collectible
collectible is also an use to
advertise something.
Be sure to join us before the holidays start and bring your show
and tell glass.
Be safe and happy until then and please come and
vote for your favorite candidate this month.
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Jackie Oglesby
Secretary
fentonfinders.net
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