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Fenton Art Glass is arguably the single most important name in American collectible glass — founded in 1905 and family-owned for its entire run, Fenton touched nearly every category covered on this site, from early carnival glass to the mid-century milk glass boom to its…

Fenton’s mark history is genuinely simple to summarize but easy to misunderstand: the company left most of its output unmarked for its first six-plus decades, which means the absence of a mark tells you almost nothing on its own — it’s actually the norm for…

Hobnail may be the pattern most associated with Fenton in the popular imagination, but the company’s signature art glass lines — Burmese, opalescent glass, custard glass, slag glass, and Rosalene among them — represent some of its most historically significant and collector-prized work. Burmese Glass…