Comments on: Vintage Gay Fad Florals

By: Rick

Rick — Thu, 13 May 2010 23:29:33 +0000

Hello Deanna and Sandy,

I was searching the web for anything related to Gay Fad Studios when I found this great website and this webpage. Gay Fad Studios was my (late) aunt’s company and my sister is very interested in collecting information about it. Sandy, if you are interested in sharing, is there some (safe) way in which you and she can correspond, either on this website or, if that is not appropriate, by some other means? BTW, if you are interested, there is a short biography about Fran Taylor posted here:

National Women’s History Museum, Chronicles of American Women
http://www.nwhm.org/Chronicles/Taylor.html

By: Rick

Rick — Thu, 13 May 2010 23:26:17 +0000

Hello Deanna and Sandy,

BTW, if you are interested, there is a short biography about Fran Taylor posted here:

National Women’s History Museum
Chronicles of American Women
http://www.nwhm.org/Chronicles/Taylor.html

By: Deanna

Deanna — Fri, 19 Feb 2010 05:45:59 +0000

Hi Sandy,

The first thing I’d do is photograph and document your pieces — and any paperwork etc., that your mother may have saved. Not only are there collectors who may be interested in your pieces, but the information on patterns etc. is relatively valuable. The photos will help you, whether you want to sell the entire collection, a group or lot, or individual pieces.

By: Sandy

Sandy — Fri, 19 Feb 2010 02:57:32 +0000

I was looking up Gay Fad and saw your post. I have many items from Gay Fad . My mother was an officer of Gay Fad Studios and a personl friend of Fran Taylor. I didn’t know Gay Fad glassware was getting to be a collectors item. I am getting to the age now where I need to scale down and haven’t known what to do with my mother’s collection. Any suggestions ?
Thank You