Glass Chatroom Board

Well, I posted here, walked in my bedroom to pick up something, looked at my bed, fell on it, and now, 4 1/2 hours later I just woke up. Going to get something to eat and crawl back in bed.

@scott SCOTT ... I, too, belong to GLGD, but I rarely go there. It is a slow-loading site for me, not easy to get around the database. I felt the photographs for so many of the items were so poorly done and the quality of glass brought for ID was lacking. Also I just didn't feel there was much expertise for many of the ID's...just a lot of unfounded speculation (with the exception of Fran who knows her Candlewick! 😀 ) I use to try to help ID things, but I got angry when I'd spend time trying to ID something only to find out they had already gotten an ID on an item but hadn't posted it on all their pics, or hadn't moved it out of the "need ID" area. And there was a "need ID" area in the database and one in the Yahoo base and they weren't necessarily coordinated. I only subscribe to the updates now and only occasionally add to the site. As a "newbie", Diane has it set up in such a way that your post has to be "approved" by a moderator before it can be posted. It's a rubber stamp, but I never figured out the why of it. I actually unsubscribed to it at one time, but finally came back as long as I just only see the updates and can click out of it fast. Today was typical. Someone had posted a picture of a vase they wanted an ID on and the vase is laying on it's side because they didn't rotate the picture. Irritates this old woman. I just deleted the email and won't bother standing on my head to try to deal with old fuzzy pics.

@cjvreeland CHUCK ... L.E. Smith had a Fayette Decor line in the early 1960s. and it was marketed as Fayette Glass. According to Tom Felt's LE Smith Glass Company book. This soon was marketed simply as Fayette Glass, with no mention of the issuing company....this was done to allow Smith to sell to discout stores without interfering with its regular customers. Pieces from previous seasons that were no longer in the current catalog could be sold this way at volume prices. This is the explanation why so many known Smith items can also be found with Fayette labels....Fayette was sold for at least 10 years before being phased out in the 1970s.