We have a chance to set the history books straight, give collectors something to look for and talk about, and perhaps discover something on our shelves we didn’t realize was there.

WRITE HISTORY

Many collectors care about when each item they own was made. Perhaps they choose to collect only the most original styles and colors, or just those produced in the fifties (the four “fifties” colors plus yellow and turquoise).

There are items, like the creamer, that had a stickhandle originally, and a ring handle later, but both available in the “original six” colors. You’d have to know the stickhandle came first to collect that style for your “most original” collection. Or that the ring handle in yellow and turquoise—not the stickhandle version—was the one made for the fifties to accompany the “fifties” colors.

It gets ever more complicated as you look to coffee cups with flat interior bottoms, bowls lacking interior rings, and pieces that went from having a glazed “foot” (resting surface) verses a “wiped” (glaze-less) foot.

Obviously some of these variants could be quite rare, and their scarcity might make them more valuable—or at least, of greater interest to some.

This is your chance to write history!