Heisey Glass Company

The A.H. Heisey Glass Company was founded in the city of Newark in Ohio, in 1895. This company was, and still is known for its glass decorative tableware as well as its figurines; both were made via pressed or blown glass, in a wide variety of colors and shapes. The factory operated until 1957 when the factory was closed. Also, Heisey Glass Company made headlights for cars – known as Holophane. Heisey glass remains a valuable collectible today.

Heisey glassware is easily known because of its high clarity and brilliance. The glassware is finished with firepolishing and has polished bottoms as a result. In fact, most people at first think that the pieces are pure cut crystal because of just how crisp the molding is. Most of the Heisey Glass Company pieces have the logo of the company embossed onto them: a raised capital letter H in a diamond.

Popular patterns are Crystolite, Greek Key, Empress, Plantation, Ridgeleigh, Stanhope, Old Sandwich and Yeoman, as well as many others.

Heisey produced colors during the entire time of the factory’s existence, but the most known time of colored glass manufacturing was from 1925 to 1938. Most of the collectibles were made during this timeframe. The company had put much effort into their production of different colors, most of which are what help to identify a Heisey glass. For example, Moongleam and Flamingo, which were green and pink respectively, were produced. Other colors were Marigold, a brassy yellowish gold hue, and Sahara, which was a softer yellow. Starting in 1933, the company decided to go with darker colors, such as Tangerine, which was a red-orange, and Steigel blue, which was cobalt, was also produded. Heisey Glass Company’s rarest color is Alexandrite, which, depending on the light, shines either turquoise under normal lighting or pinkish-lavender under sunlight. The very last hue that the company invented was called Zircon, and was a grayish-blue.

It’s thought that Heisey made several milk glass pieces early on, back in the 1920s, along with Vaseline glass. This is glass that has a coating to make it not as transparent.

When the factory was closed in 1957, the Imperial Glass Company purchased Heisey molds and continued to manufacture many of the patterns until 1984 when Imperial Glass Company went out of business.

Heisey patterns include:
Cabochon
Charter Oak
Chintz
Crystolite
Empress
Greek Key
Ipswich
Lariat
Minuet
New Era
Octagon
Old Colony
Old Sandwich
Orchid
Plantation
Pleat & Panel
Provincial
Queen Ann
Ridgeleigh
Rose
Saturn
Stanhope
Twist
Victorian
Waverly
Yeoman

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