Happy Belated Mr. Heisey!

Greetings from the PurplePatty.com Community! Mr. Augustus Henry Heisey was born in Hanover, Germany on August 25, 1842. He is the gentleman that founded A.H. Heisey & Co. in Newark, Ohio in 1895.

It was in the early 1900s when the Heisey factory was credited with the manufacturing of the finest table glassware in the world and Mr. Heisey known as the "Dean of American Glassmen." Upon Mr. Heisey's death on Februrary 13,1922, the Heisey factory had 3 furnaces and 700 employees producing glassware that was sold in the United States and several foreign countries.

After selling much clear crystal glassware, it was during the 1920s that Heisey added glass with color. This colored glassware was a huge seller and came with enticing names as, alexandrite, dawn, flamingo, ivorina verde, limelight, sahara, and zircon. This line of glassware was made in all one color and in mixed colors with clear crystal, such as: a colored stem with crystal top or a crystal stem with colored top.

The Heisey factory also created custard glass, iridescent glass, milk glass, and silver-trimmed glass. It was on June 2, 1936 that the Heisey factory introduced a new method for making etched glassware that gave it a more delicate etching with lots of detail like the well known Heisey Rose pattern.

There have been many stories about the Heisey molds being destroyed, lost, or even sold. One thing that we do know is that at the time of the closing of the Heisey factory, the remaining molds were sold to Imperial Glass Company of Belaire, Ohio. Under much dissatisfaction of collectors, the Imperial Glass Company manufactured using these molds and put the diamond H trademark on the glass, which makes it very difficult to attribute the maker of these items.

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