{"id":2155,"date":"2016-03-13T10:49:29","date_gmt":"2016-03-13T14:49:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.drivingfordeco.com\/staging\/3617\/?p=2155"},"modified":"2016-03-13T10:49:29","modified_gmt":"2016-03-13T14:49:29","slug":"fiestaware-turns-80","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.drivingfordeco.com\/staging\/3617\/fiestaware-turns-80\/","title":{"rendered":"Fiestaware 101: A course for beginner collectors. Part One 1936."},"content":{"rendered":"
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1937 Fiestaware Price List. Click above to see a PDF of the entire brochure.<\/p><\/div>\n

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January, 2016 marked the\u00a080th anniversary of Homer Laughlin’s most popular and enduring line, Fiestaware. This is the first of a series of posts about this famous dinnerware. It is intended as an overview of it history and as a guide for novice collectors. I have been collecting Fiestaware for 19 years starting with\u00a0the new Fiesta because I liked its nostalgic appeal. By the time I stopped buying “Post ’86 Fiesta”, I had place settings for 20 people and many serving pieces. So it wasn’t much of a leap from the new to the old. It started innocently enough with a vintage\u00a09 inch, light green plate\u00a0purchased on Memorial Day weekend, 2000 at the Circle Drive-in Flea Market<\/a><\/span> in Scranton, Pa. Little did I know how much of an obsession it would become.\u00a0By the end of the day I had added three more pieces to my collection. It has become a goal of mine to acquire one piece of vintage Fiestaware in each color. I still have a long, long way to go.<\/h4>\n

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In the late 1920’s,\u00a0Bauer Pottery<\/a><\/span> introduced a solid color tableware. Around 1933 they introduced a line called Ringware which proved very\u00a0popular. Other California pottery companies soon started producing similar lines.<\/h4>\n

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