Vintage Jadeite
Posted in Posters on 09/13/2011 09:54 pm by admin
What is antique “jadeite” kitchenware made of?
Does anyone know what the greenish glass kitchenware from the 50′s and 60′s is made of? I am really obsessed with it and want to know what material it is. Is it just green glass, or something else? I can’t imagine it’s actual jadeite, but maybe…
Also, if it is glass, is there a special process for turning it that color?
Any insight would be great, since I’m a curious, vintage kitchenware loving George.
Thanks!
Jadite was manufactured by many companies from the 1930′s to 1972. Jadite is occasionally referred to as “clambroth” a term also used for opaque white glass. Each company produced a slight variant either lighter or darker of jadite’s basic seafoam -green color. It’s made of low expansion borosilicate glass and is ideal for oven use
Jadite was heavy, durable, inexpensive and, sometimes it was even free. It was often packaged as a giveaway in food and cleaning products. Restaurants served meals on jadite dishes, as they cost pennies to buy and had a high threshold for breakage.
Because Jadite is functional, good looking, and easy to find and still fairly cheap to buy, it is an ideal collectible.
What makes jadite especially fun to collect is the hundreds of different items available. There is everything from basic tableware and kitchenware to unusual, even quirky, things like cigarette boxes, footed bulb bowls, jucie-saver pie plates, door knobs and water dispensers to name a few.
By far the largest and most well-known producer of jadite was the Anchor Hocking Glass Co. was founded by Isaac J. Collins, in 1905, near Lancaster, Pennsylvania, to produce pressed-glass dinnerware.
After Hockings merged with the Anchor Cap Co in 1937, the new company, the Anchor Hocking Glass Corporation, started to manufacturer glass ovenware that could endure high oven temperatures. Their wildly successful line of ovenproof glass, called Fire-King, debuted in 1942 and was made for 30 years. Offered in a variety colors, Fire-King named their opaque green color Jade – ite which would become the line’s most popular color.
Alice: With a delicately embossed floral pattern, this is the oldest Fire King style. It came out in the early 1940′s and only cups, saucers and dinner plates were made. The cup and saucers, which are much more plentiful than the plates, were given away with Quaker Oats crystal Wedding Oats, while the plates were a move goer’s premium.
Charm: Anchor-Hockings made this square Fire-King Pattern from 1950 to 1954. It is the hardest Jade-ite style to locate.
Restaurant Ware. Produced from 1950 to 1956 is the most well-known jadite pattern, and many collectors buy only this. It is a clean simplistic pattern, once used in diners all over the country, and was advertised as :Mass Feeding Establishments”. It was sold in five and dimes, it was produced in a wide variety of tableware objects, including partitioned plates and different sized cup, mugs and bowls. The thick lipped coffee cups were known as “cheater mugs” by using these cups, restarants could save about an ounce of coffee.
These are just a few of the designs available for collectors, others were Jan Ray and Swirl.
Except for rare items, Jadite is fairly abundant. You will be able to find it easily when searching garage sales, flea markets , online auctions etc. Before you buy , research the Jadite , notice what it looks like , and how it is marked on the bottom. There are a great deal of duplicate or new jadite being passed off for the vintage. So beware. Some Dates and Marks that might help you identify your Jadite by Mark and Year:
Date Your Jadite
Date Your Jadite
1942 – 45 FIRE-KING in block letters
1942 – 45 OVEN FIRE-KING GLASS
mid 1940′s OVEN FIRE-KING WARE
Mid to late 1940′s OVEN Fire-King WARE MADE IN U.S.A. (“Fire-King” is written in script lettering)
1951-1960 ANCHOR HOCKING OVEN Fire-King WARE MADE IN U.S.A. (“Fire-King” is written in script lettering)
1960 – late 1960′s ANCHOR HOCKING OVEN Fire-King DINNERWARE MADE IN U.S.A. (“Fire-King” is written in script lettering)
late 1960′s- early 1970′s ANCHOR HOCKING OVEN Fire-King OVEN-PROOF MADE IN U.S.A. (“Fire-King” is written in script lettering)
Mid To Late 1970′s ANCHOR HOCKING OVEN Fire-King Suburbia OVEN-PROOF MADE IN U.S.A. (“Fire-King” is written in script lettering)
Other companies also produced “jadite” . McKee is known for their pale green “skokie Green” jadite. Pieces are often marked “mcK” in a circle and are recognizable by the bulge or hump on the bottom of each piece. McKee produced some pieces with decals, and canisters and shakers frequently have black letters to indicate what goes inside.
The Jeannette Glass Co. bought McKee in 1961 and closed their doors in the early 8,0′s. Some of collectors favorite Jeannette jadite pieces are mixing bowls and refrigerator dish the later is very hard to find. The mixing bowls have vertical ribs that go pa
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