Heisey Glass

The A.H. Heisey Company was formed in Newark, Ohio in 1895 by A. H. Heisey. The factory provided fine quality glass tableware and decorative glass figurines. Both pressed and blown glassware were made in a wide variety of patterns and colours.

Heisey glassware is readily identifiable as being of high clarity and brilliance, and highly finished through the process of firepolishing, with polished bottoms. Many of the pressed pieces appear to be cut-crystal on casual inspection due to the high-quality of the glass and the crispness of the molding. The majority, but no where near all of the pieces are impressed with the company logo a raised capital letter "H" inscribed in a diamond of approximately 1/4 inch (6 mm) in length. This mark is found on the bottom of most large pieces and on the base or stem of drinking glasses and comports.

Popular pattern names include Crystolite, Rose, Greek-key, Empress, Orchid, Plantation, Ridgeleigh, Stanhope, Old Sandwich and Yeoman amongst dozens of others.

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Heisey glass was produced in colors throughout the life of the factory but the most prolific period of colour manufacturing was from 1925 to 1938 when the most collectible colours were created. The company went to great lengths to produce distinct colours and Heisey glass may often be identified from the specific colours alone. In 1925 Flamingo ( a pastel rose-pink) and Moongleam (a vivid green) were introduced and produced in large quantities. Marigold is a brassy gold-yellow colour. Sahara, which replaced Marigold, is a satisfying soft lemony yellow colour. Hawthorne is a lavender colour. Tangerine, a bright orange-red, produced from about 1933 was part of a trend to darker more vivid colours. During this time a Cobalt colour called Steigel Blue was also produced. Alexandrite is the rarest of Heisey colours -- it can be a pale blue-green under normal light but in Sun-light or ultraviolet light it glows with a pink-lavender colour. Zircon is a very modern grey-bluy colour and was the last new colour introduced.

Heisey is believed to have made a few pieces in milk-glass in its early production years and likely produced vaseline glass as well in the early twenties although not in large quantities.

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