Posted 3 years ago
cipele
(12 items)
Hello,
I was giving a Fiesta set - teapot and mugs. They have different markings though. What is the difference between those two markings on those Fiesta pieces, please?
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Hi, cipele. :-)
You haven't provided any pictures other than of the HLC Fiestaware marks, so it's a bit difficult to tell exactly what you have, but they look like a mug and a coffee/tea pot from the vintage period (1936-1972).
The difference between the two markings:
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Fiestaware marks appear in two ways: as a stamp underneath the glaze, or imprinted in the pottery itself as an in-mold mark. Generally, flat items have the stamp and hollow items (like mugs) have the debossed in-mold mark.
Definitive Logo Marks of Old Fiestaware
Lowercase “fiesta” stamp: If the mark is an under-glaze stamp and the word “Fiesta” is entirely lowercase letters, the piece is vintage. “There are lots of variants in the markings, but older vintage Fiesta was ink stamped on the bottom in all lower-case letters,” says Wilkes. No modern Fiestaware has a stamp where the logo is in lowercase letters, though some modern Fiestaware will have an in-mold mark where the logo is lowercase.
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https://estatesales.org/thegoods/the-complete-guide-to-fiesta-ceramics
Why your 'holloware' drinking vessel has a stamped mark instead of a debossed, in-mold mark might be a matter of when it was produced, that is to say, later in the vintage period.
Here is a Fiesta mug with a debossed, in-mold mark from the early vintage period:
https://www.collectorsweekly.com/stories/78577-fiestaware-mug-etching-id
I don't think your pieces are of the earlier vintage period (1936-1951), because of the color which doesn't look to me like the original green:
https://vintageamericanpottery.com/original-green-vintage-fiestaware.html
It looks perhaps like chartreuse:
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Fiesta Chartreuse was produced by the Home Laughlin China Company from 1951 until 1959. Chartreuse is also a contemporary color that was manufactured from 1997 to 1999.
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https://www.microwavecookingforone.com/Fiestaware/FiestaChartreuseVintage.html
https://fiestafactorydirect.com/pages/color-history
Sorry for the late reply. Thank you so much for taking the time. Great info.
Best,
C
You're welcome. :-)
I'm definitely not an expert, but it does look to me like 1951-1959 Chartreuse.
If it were 1997-1999 Charteuse, there would be extra markings.