Fenton Mosaic Threaded Vase 1926 RARE!

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Fenton Mosaic Threaded Vase 1926 RARE! Up for auction is a VERY RARE Fenton Art Glass Mosaic Threaded Vase made in 1926! These are so rare that they don't even have one of these in the museum at the Fenton Gift Shop in Williamstown, WV. The background on this Vase, as told to me by the Fenton employees who run the museum, is that back in 1926 they had American glass blowers that, were born and learned their trade in Belgium. They did amazing things with glass. This piece as well as other mosaic threaded pieces of this era were made by them. The problem was that they were very expensive. They cost around $50.00 back then to buy. So many of them didn't make it our of the store, or survived many homes for the last 80 years. After about a year or so of making these, the Belgium glass blowers left and Fentons never heard from them again. The piece itself is just amazingly beautiful! It has a mosaic of reds, yellows, orange, and browns swirled around a black vase with a carnival glaze. Added to this is the threading, which is very difficult and not seen anymore in glass. It is 11 inches Tall and about 3 inched in diameter. You may notice in the picture that t is a line on the bottom of this piece, the Fenton museum employee told me that it isn't a crack, because a crack would have broke the piece over time. Instead I was told it happened read more

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