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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;SeaGoat, post: 264999, member: 1136&quot;]So going through a box I found a bunch of reference books I never looked through. </p><p><br /></p><p>Thumbing through them I saw what looked to be full of Fenton.</p><p><br /></p><p>Confused I started reading and it said, &quot; Unlike the plants which manufactured and sold their own glass lines, the LG Wright glass company did not bring out new patterns, colors or decorations on yearly basis. A Wright pattern line&nbsp; (such as panel grape or moon and star) or an item (such as the pump and trough) which continued to sell reasonably well would be made in various colors from time to time and dust could remain in the line for many years.</p><p><br /></p><p>Since Wright owned the mold from which his items were made, he was free to transport the mold from one Factory to another. Records kept at Viking glass company in New Martinsville show that some of the Wright molds remained at Viking for several years While others came from Paden City to Viking for short time and then were taken to Fenton or Fostoria or Westmoreland, only to return to Viking later.</p><p>....</p><p>Wright typically had glass made in relatively small quantities. He bought by the turn and this might mean 175 blown cranberry water pictures or several hundred of a small pressed piece.</p><p>...</p><p>When Wrights inventory of a particular item was getting low, he would make the rounds of the glass plants which could make the Ware, typically Contracting for a few turns wherever the piece was best. &quot;Si was a shrewd businessman,&quot; Frank M. Fenton recalls. &quot;My father [Frank L. Fenton] often made glass for him at prices barely over cost because he wanted to keep our skilled workers busy during a slack period&quot;</p><p>...</p><p>Getting pressed items made in the standard glass colors was not particularly difficult in the 1940s, as Wright could turn to Fenton, Fostoria, Paden City, Westmoreland, or Viking. Each of these plants quoted prices to Si Wright, some even updating their quotes regularly in small binders.</p><p>...</p><p>Fostoria produced an excellent pink, and most of Wrights moon and stars articles or Daisy and button pieces in this hue were made there. Fenton made opalescent glass regularly and turned out lots of custard glass in the late 1960s. Fenton would not make carnival glass for Wright, however, so he turned to Westmoreland for this treatment.</p><p>...</p><p>The point of this discussion is a simple one, namely, that Wright glass is, by definition and practical fact, glassware made for and sold by the LG Wright glass company. One cannot look at a given Wright glass item and easily determine the manufacturer. The mold belongs to the LG Wright glass company, of course, so it follows that the glass is Wright glass, regardless of its particular place of manufacture.</p><p>...</p><p><b>Wright generally did not allow other glass plants to use his molds to produce wear for their own lines.</b>&quot;</p><p>The L.G. Wright Glass Company</p><p><br /></p><p>Looking at the pictures from these lines I&#039;ve seen many of these pieces come through auction and they are most always called Fenton (even by Fenton collectors). </p><p><br /></p><p>So I&#039;m left a little confused. </p><p>Are these pieces Wright Glass or Fenton (Westmoreland, fostoria, etc)</p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]83255[/ATTACH] </p><p>[ATTACH=full]83256[/ATTACH] </p><p>[ATTACH=full]83257[/ATTACH] </p><p>[ATTACH=full]83258[/ATTACH] </p><p>[ATTACH=full]83259[/ATTACH][/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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