Fiesta Dishes. Info

Posted on April 21, 2010 by Gretta

One of the best ways to save big on a new or growing Fiesta collection is by buying Fiesta dinnerware sets. Fiesta dinnerware sets are a package deal with savings that often amount to a virtual buy one get one free deal. Each Fiestaware dinnerware set comes with four place settings (i.e. enough Fiestaware dishes [...]

Posted on April 17, 2010 by Gretta

Now that you have purchased, collected, and valued your vintage Fiestaware, you may be wondering where you can sell it for a tidy profit. Even though there are many Fiestaware collectors out there, finding one of them may be harder than you think. Still, there are a couple of ways that you can sell your [...]

Posted on April 17, 2010 by Gretta

Fiesta Sea Mist Green was first created in 1989 and was discontinued in 2005. Because of its recent discontinuation, there are still some Fiesta Sea Mist Green pieces for sale on Amazon.com. Usually, you won’t find rare and collectible Fiesta listed with big retailers – but today’s our lucky day. Check out Fiestaware Sea Mist [...]

Posted on April 16, 2010 by Gretta

The folks over at AndisHouse.com sent us a friendly email to let me know that they had some pretty killer deals on Fiestaware that underpriced some of the Fiestaware discounts that we’d been posting here. So, we checked it out, and indeed, they do. We’ve been posting five piece Fiesta place settings for $26.95 from [...]

Posted on April 15, 2010 by Gretta

Lead content is a bit of the redheaded stepchild of both vintage and contemporary dinnerware – including Fiesta. The fear among many consumers is that lead from the glaze can leach into your food and into your body and cause lead poisoning. Homer Laughlin is well aware of this, and has since begun printing “Lead [...]

Posted on April 07, 2010 by Gretta

You may remember from our earlier post on the original Fiesta colors that Homer Laughlin used to use uranium in it’s Fiestaware to give it that nice, radioactive (literally) red/orange look. Well, if you didn’t believe it then, here’s proof: [youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d8SVyLrv-yQ&hl=en_US&fs=1&] This video accompanies a post from blogger and author Anthony Lewis and shows just [...]

Posted on April 06, 2010 by Gretta

Rose fiestaware first went into production back in 1951 before being retired in in 1959. By popular demand, Fiesta Rose made a comeback in 1986 before Homer Laughlin retired it in 2005. Retired Rose Fiesta on Sale At Amazon.com Today, Amazon has a variety of collectible, retired Fiesta Rose in stock. These range from the [...]

Posted on April 05, 2010 by Gretta

This week, we’re featuring a piece of retired Fiesta on sale at Amazon.com every day. We were going to save Pearl Gray for later, but we noticed that there’s only one deal left: a set of four salad plates. Click through below to see it for yourself: http://rcm.amazon.com/e/cm?lt1=_blank&bc1=000000&IS2=1&bg1=FFFFFF&fc1=000000&lc1=0000FF&t=uncbwibl-20&o=1&p=8&l=as1&m=amazon&f=ifr&md=10FE9736YVPPT7A0FBG2&asins=B00004YJZ7 Note: The Amazon display is a little [...]

Posted on April 05, 2010 by Gretta

If you’re bargain hunting for retired Fiesta on eBay or making a pilgrimage to the Everything Fiesta factory Outlet in the Flatwoods Factory Outlet stores in West Virginia, you will undoubtedly come across something known as “second quality” Fiesta. You’ll notice that second quality Fiestaware comes at a significant price discount – but what is [...]

Posted on April 05, 2010 by Gretta

Amazon.com is an awesome source for Fiestaware sales, but they also have some new and used retired Fiesta colors still available. This week, we’ll be featuring a retired Fiesta color on sale at Amazon.com each day. Today’s retired Fiesta for sale: Juniper Fiestaware Fiestaware Juniper came out in 1999 and had a short two year [...]