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McKee Fentec Milk Glass Cream & Sugar
McKee Fentec Milk Glass Cream & Sugar

McKee Fentec Milk Glass Cream & Sugar
Here is the patent for Fentec pattern on a plate. http://chataboutdg.com/gallery/details.php?image_id=5327

Both pieces are marked McKee. There was considerable discussion about whether these were made by Kemple after the acquisition of McKee molds. According to Tom Felt, "the transparent colored -tec pieces [are] Kemple, even when they are marked, because the molds for them had been sold to Kemple and Smith before those colors came into popularity. However, milk glass is another matter. After McKee became a division of the Thatcher Glass Mfg. Co. in 1952 (and probably for just a year or so before the molds were sold in 1953), there were some -tec pieces reissued in milk glass -- including the cream and sugar. Here they are in an advertisement from Chain Store Age, November 1952:"
http://chataboutdg.com/gallery/details.php?image_id=13104 McKee November 1952 Ad.

To complicate matters even further, Kemple apparently called both the Fentec and the Toltec pattern "Toltec"!
Keywords: Fentec, Kemple, Toltec
Date: 08.12.2008 11:29
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