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These are pieces of glass from our antique collection. The upper right is custard glass made by the Consolidated Glass Co. dating to between 1926-1928. The upper left is a piece of Fenton cased glass with milk glass on the interior and iridescent amethyst on the exterior and all hand decorated. Part of Fenton glass production is individually hand blown, some of their glass is pressed. Theses pieces are both hand blown. The bottom right is another piece of Fenton glass, not cased, but clear cobalt glass and hand decorated. The bottom left is a piece of Consolidated glass in milk glass with 4 other colors. Consolidated glass was made in molds and involved a base glass of custard or milk and other colored glasses forming the decoration. One extra color was most common but some of the rarer pieces have as many as 4 other colors such as this hummingbird vase. The glass was always matte finished. This is my entry for the glass contest. Read on for more information on these two companies if you would like. FENTON GLASS Founded in 1905 by brothers Frank L. and John W. Fenton, the Fenton Art Glass Company located in Williamstown, West Virginia ranks among the world's foremost producers of handmade art glass. Fenton was the largest manufacturer of handmade colored glass in the United States, and the company is renowned for innovative glass colors as well as hand painted decorations on pressed and blown glassware. The company ceased traditional glassmaking in 2011. CONSOLIDATED GLASS (info from book by Jack D. Wilson) began life in late 1893 as the Fostoria Shade and Lamp Company. It became the Consolidated Lamp and Glass Company after a merger. They were located in Fostoria Ohio. In 1896 Consolidated moved from Fostoria, Ohio to Coraopolis, Pennsylvania. They were the largest shade and lamp company in the US by 1911 and then in 1926 moved into the art glass world after the huge Decorative Arts expo in Paris in 1925. They called their glass "Martele" which stood for "hand wrought" and featured raised designs with floral, bird and nude motifs. The Great Depression caused Consolidated to shut down from 1932 until 1936. In 1937 their production was taken to the Phoenix Art Glass company which made it's own line of glassware. That company continued until 1967 but the heyday of Consolidated glass is the period from Coraopolis Pa.