{"id":5622,"date":"2020-08-29T08:32:16","date_gmt":"2020-08-29T12:32:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/grannysglasses.com\/?p=5622"},"modified":"2020-08-29T08:32:40","modified_gmt":"2020-08-29T12:32:40","slug":"fenton-line-100-topaz-three-legged-bowl","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/grannysglasses.com\/?p=5622","title":{"rendered":"Fenton Line #100 Topaz Three Legged Bowl"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"<\/a>This little bowl has a very pretty colour.\u00a0 I don’t know Fenton’s colour chart at all, but my understanding that this is their colour Topaz.\u00a0 I have this great book – Colors & Patterns of Depression Era Glassware by Doris Yeske & Lyle Fokken – which refers to Fostoria’s ‘yellow’ glass being called ‘Topaz’.<\/p>\n

In fact, Fenton is a company that is not well represented in my collections, or purchases.\u00a0 Don’t know why.\u00a0 I tend to lean toward Heisey, Cambridge or Fostoria glass lines and etches.<\/p>\n

The brightness of the colour, and the opalescence around the rim caught my eye.\u00a0 However the pattern is pretty too.\u00a0 The photos may not show this well – but there are rings in the glass.\u00a0 I don’t know if the pattern was named “Ring’ or ‘Rings’ or ‘Ringed’ by Fenton but I see online that it is often referred to by one of those names.\"\"<\/a><\/p>\n

This piece does glow brightly under a blacklight.\u00a0 These bright green pieces are often referred to as Vaseline glass.<\/p>\n

The Encyclopedia of Glass by Mark Pickvet defines ‘Vaseline Glass’ as follows (p. 269):<\/p>\n

“Glass made with a small amount of uranium oxide (usually 1-2%) that imparts a light greenish-yellow color……Vaseline glass was first made by the Romans; however it was not used in glass production in any quantity until the mid-nineteenth century.\u00a0 The term ‘Vaseline’ was not used until about 1937.\u00a0 Note \"\"<\/a>that the English usually refer to Vaseline glass as ‘Lemonescent’ while it has also been called canary, yellow, uranium, topaz, magic, Canaria, Chameleon, Anna Yelloow, Annagrun, and Lenora Green.’<\/p>\n