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Post by AmeliaBloomer on Sept 12, 2015 2:19:07 GMT
I read somewhere that the most valuable Pyrex out there is a shamrock & heart pattern. Something like only three pieces of it are known to exist. Now THAT would be the one to stumble upon at a thrift store or garage sale. ![:)](//storage.proboards.com/5645536/images/MNrJDkDuSwqIMVw33MdD.jpg) I got curious. Meh. Check it out. One of them sold for $3000ish this May. The same seller sold one for $1600 two weeks later. Looks like it was a relisting, but not sure. Maybe the first buyer backed out? $3000 and no lid. Heh. ![](http://i.ebayimg.com/00/s/ODkyWDE2MDA=/z/v5UAAOSwZd1VXpJc/$_1.JPG?set_id=880000500F)
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Post by Sue on Sept 12, 2015 2:49:35 GMT
I've been using the same set of Pyrex mixing bowls since I was married 47 years ago... just the common set, lg yellow, med blue etc. Around here stores like Goodwill don't put out Pyrex anymore. It all goes online to be auctioned off. No fair. ![:(](//storage.proboards.com/5645536/images/mYSUyHtG9Jrcmm_ydVcK.jpg)
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Post by glory77 on Sept 12, 2015 3:06:48 GMT
I have the Santa Christmas bowl. I checked Ebay for a year and finally found it. It was a promotional piece too and apparently given out at the Christmas party.
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Post by ellen on Sept 12, 2015 3:16:30 GMT
I started picking up vintage Pyrex items about ten years ago. I found all sorts of great deals at thrift shops and garage sales. Then about five years ago it stopped being fun because others were buying it and prices went way up. I had a storage problem too. I have my house in town and the one at the lake and my kitchen cabinets really can't handle anymore. I like using it. As a child of the 70s I'm kind of drawn to the butterfly gold and spring blossom patterns which were really easy to find. My favorite set is my pink and white gooseberry bowls which I scored for $10 at a neighbor's garage sale.
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Post by Deleted on Sept 12, 2015 3:55:12 GMT
I never see any of the pretty kind. I am jealous.
I am into the orange swirl ( I call it sherbet) fire king .
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Post by crimsoncat05 on Sept 12, 2015 4:07:48 GMT
I feel like a life-long wino who just discovered gin. I just caved and bought my first vintage patterned Pyrex. The black snowflake stuff has beckoned to me for years, but I staunchly resisted it. I have quite enough collections, thank you very much, and didn't need to fall into the Pyrex world... ..until, jonesing, I stopped in a thrift store on the way home and this beauty followed me home (internet photo): ![](https://img0.etsystatic.com/000/0/5267797/il_570xN.33412126.jpg) I love that it's cream colored, not white. And the gold!! What I love more: I've learned that it was a promotional item from 1958 and there are no companion pieces. So I'm done, right? Just one shot of gin? What patterns do y'all collect? (Photos encouraged.) wow!! I have never even seen that pattern!! I just got on the Pyrex bandwagon a few months ago, myself... not the 'real' expensive stuff... I've purchased a couple glass pie pans, a couple casserole dishes, and some newer storage ware (clear glass with the plastic lids) from the thrift store and brand new from the Pyrex store (the 100-year anniversary set). I've really resisted getting into the vintage stuff, because I don't want to have it just for display. Oh, and I've had the blue, red, green, and yellow mixing bowl set since I was about 20... I love that set of mixing bowls, and use them all. the. time.
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Post by georgiapea on Sept 12, 2015 4:14:36 GMT
JustKaren, your Pyrex collection is AMAZING. Every one is a treasure.
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Post by chendra on Sept 12, 2015 4:31:14 GMT
I would be so excited to find a "spirograph" promotional casserole someday. All I ever seem to find are the brown patterns like Americana or Forest Fancies.
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Post by gale w on Sept 12, 2015 8:39:53 GMT
I collected for a while. I still watch for pieces I like but I don't have much room to put it right now. I've gotten a little more since I took these but nothing exciting. The bottom is some real and fake jadite and some glasbake mugs. The egg cups are ones that we had when I was a kid. My mom gave them to me. ![](http://stevengale.smugmug.com/Other/Blog-projects/i-8MxPBJk/0/O/pyrex3sm.jpg) ![](http://stevengale.smugmug.com/Other/Blog-projects/i-5gk96zQ/0/O/pyrex2sm.jpg)
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Post by disneypal on Sept 12, 2015 10:38:09 GMT
I am trying to avoid falling down the vintage Pyrex rabbit hole, but I just changed my kitchen color to aqua and there's some really cool aqua Pyrex out there. ETA: That piece is gorgeous! So unique. Great find. I have also changed my kitchen color to Aqua - I love it! I only have the Pyrex Butterprint design and decided to stick to that pattern only (I have a 4 piece nested mixing bowl set and a 3 piece casserole set with glass lids). However, now that I have seen that chip/dip set that AmeliaBloomer posted, I would grabbed that up if I found it, even though the pattern is different. That is really unique and the perfect color. I really like a lot of the pink Pyrex but just made a deal with myself to stick only with the Butterprint Aqua color - I have a small kitchen and just feel I need to limit my collection to pieces I will use often.
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Post by Bitchy Rich on Sept 12, 2015 11:05:15 GMT
I live in a small town and can still find vintage Pyrex at garage sales for cheap. Then I realized I had collected too many styles/patterns that I didn't truly love. So now I buy everything I find, keep only what I really love and sell the rest on ebay.
I love to browse through the sold ebay listings, sorted by the highest prices. I've never found any of the really good rare stuff.
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Post by Sarah*H on Sept 12, 2015 12:28:28 GMT
I kind of collect but only from real thrift stores, garage sales or estate sales. I won't pay what they ask for Pyrex at antique stores or flea markets. My best find was a couple years ago at an estate sale - an unused set of Pink Gooseberry Cinderella nesting bowls like this: ![](http://i.ebayimg.com/00/s/MTE5NVgxNjAw/z/NrUAAOSwMmBV4inB/$_35.JPG?set_id=880000500F) I only use the vintage pyrex for storage and to decorate my craft room. I have a rainbow of colors! I use the clear glass in the kitchen.
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Post by Merge on Sept 12, 2015 12:34:54 GMT
I love vintage Pyrex. I have a few harvest gold pieces that were my mom's, and a set of butterprint nesting bowls - alas, new house with smaller kitchen means I don't have space for any more.
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Post by lisaknits on Sept 12, 2015 13:13:43 GMT
I have the large yellow mixing bowl and an Autumn Harvest casserole that my Mom gave me as a hand-me-down about 15 years ago. This is a very dangerous thread for me! Stop the enabling!
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Post by vpohlman on Sept 12, 2015 13:26:58 GMT
I just learned that vintage Pyrex was a "thing" last summer when my sister had me look for it at yard sales for her and so she could sell it in her store. I was completely hooked! I had my mom's pink 9x13 baking dish which I didn't realize was a good thing. Figured out the color was called flamingo. So I decided pink would be my color, and now I have most of the flamingos baking dishes and several of the pink gooseberry pieces. I still get as many of everything else for my sister! They are usually pretty cheap at yard sales around here! In fact, I'm heading out right now!
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Post by ellen on Sept 12, 2015 13:40:25 GMT
I would be so excited to find a "spirograph" promotional casserole someday. All I ever seem to find are the brown patterns like Americana or Forest Fancies. I used to not be a fan of Forest Fancies, but then we bought a little lake home in northern MN that is surrounded by tall pines. In the proper setting it's good. I think it's kind of a cute pattern - looks like something gnomes might use. I use my Early American bowls only on the Fourth of July. I don't have a lot of either pattern, but they were all super cheap and they get used.
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Post by AmeliaBloomer on Sept 12, 2015 13:46:31 GMT
This is great. Thanks for all your replies. I've had fun looking up all the patterns mentioned, knowing full well I can't go down this road. That said... I might have stumbled across just one more piece to keep a look-out for. (Okay, TWO, but who's counting...) ![](http://thumbs4.ebaystatic.com/d/l225/m/mNwYMWxo-EQ_xrKQtwihFeQ.jpg) Then about five years ago it stopped being fun because others were buying it and prices went way up. For the last several years, I've noticed the throng of hipsters gathered around the Pyrex-only tables at our regional big flea market. Damn hipsters. They think they're such iconoclasts, and then they all buy the same things...and drive up prices. (It was even funnier to see the throng back when they were all wearing the same hats.)
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Post by Meri-Lyn on Sept 12, 2015 14:54:39 GMT
BTW, if it has gold trim, DON'T put it in the microwave. Ask me how I know. (or DH, rather!) ![:smirk:](//storage.proboards.com/5645536/images/0He9ygTSG_Y046kwp8Y_.jpg) Kinda' like how my husband learned not to put the vintage painted metal trays in the dishwasher? Baffling that he had to ruin TWO of them before it sunk in, though. ![:blink:](//storage.proboards.com/5645536/images/pd7N3dneptLj3pbgz5Gd.jpg) (Thanks for the warning. I even wondered about the regular oven...) It was one of his grandmothers, brown with a gold leafy design. He SWORE that he used to put it in the microwave all the time. When we first moved in together, he went to put it in the microwave...and sparks everywhere! EGADS!! We actually still have it, 20 years later. It's become the cat's bowl.
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Post by alexa11 on Sept 12, 2015 15:10:54 GMT
A local thrift store is having a FB auction this weekend and this one popped up. Anyone want it- I'll bid and ship it to you. Not sure if link will work. link
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Post by femalebusiness on Sept 12, 2015 15:15:44 GMT
I just shake my head in alarm when I think of all the '70's vintage I gave away because of it's color, Harvest Gold. I lived through Harvest Gold and Avocado Green. I hated it then and it it is still ugly. When I was first married I had a Harvest Gold fridge and for all the years that I owned it I had it covered with chrome contact paper.
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Post by anxiousmom on Sept 12, 2015 15:40:05 GMT
Yes, we do use them!! The other side of my kitchen has the Pyrex baking and pie plates that get used as well. I'm about 2 years into collecting Pyrex, but I've collected vintage kitchen stuff for about 15 years. Back in the day I collected jadeite dishes, bowls, etc. Then it went to milk glass and it spun itself into Pyrex. I have a problem. Anyone want any? Lol! Careful, I might send you a list. Your kitchen is darling. Ohhhh...milk glass. Now THAT is something I collect. My rule is that it has to be true milk glass, and that it can ONLY be purchased at places like Goodwill or garage sales. ![:laugh:](//storage.proboards.com/5645536/images/Ivm7lm0DayrhoRpwvCeH.jpg) Here is something that will send you to crazy town-I had a bunch of milk glass on my mantle. I came home one day and about 75% of it was shattered upon the floor. Apparently one of the asshole cats had a good time while I gone. ![>:D](//storage.proboards.com/forum/images/smiley/superangry.png)
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Post by anxiousmom on Sept 12, 2015 15:43:01 GMT
I never see any of the pretty kind. I am jealous. I am into the orange swirl ( I call it sherbet) fire king . I have a couple pieces of this...one is currently sitting by kitchen sink holding little trinkets or whatever needs to be held while I am cooking and cleaning. I used to have more of it, but I don't remember where I put it. ![:P](//storage.proboards.com/5645536/images/OrTI4SBmZ2ZYSFv6ag4f.jpg)
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Post by papersilly on Sept 12, 2015 16:53:55 GMT
I thought of the Peas when I went to a fundraising yard sale down the street. They were selling a couple of dark blue Pyrex bowls for $.50 each. It was nice to see Pyrex at affordable prices before the hipsters get to them.
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Post by chendra on Sept 12, 2015 17:20:04 GMT
I would be so excited to find a "spirograph" promotional casserole someday. All I ever seem to find are the brown patterns like Americana or Forest Fancies. I used to not be a fan of Forest Fancies, but then we bought a little lake home in northern MN that is surrounded by tall pines. In the proper setting it's good. I think it's kind of a cute pattern - looks like something gnomes might use. I use my Early American bowls only on the Fourth of July. I don't have a lot of either pattern, but they were all super cheap and they get used. I hope I didn't sound like I was disparaging these patterns. I've just noticed that if I find pyrex at a thrift store, it's the earth-toned pieces (or completely dishwasher distressed). I'm not sure if people instantly snap up the more colorful patterns, or if they never make it to the shelves at all. I suspect both. Early American would have been perfect in my parents' house--it was in the mid-century colonial style with at least a little knotty pine in every room. Forest Fancies sounds ideal for your lake home; I like the thought of gnomes using it ![:)](//storage.proboards.com/5645536/images/MNrJDkDuSwqIMVw33MdD.jpg)
ETA: You have a corgi! I miss mine so much! After our last one died, her "brother", our current dog (a corgi-terrier mix) decided he wanted nothing to do with other dogs at all, so no more corgis for us for awhile ![:(](//storage.proboards.com/5645536/images/mYSUyHtG9Jrcmm_ydVcK.jpg)
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Post by nysparkle on Sept 12, 2015 17:51:09 GMT
I have a few bowls. They were a wedding gift. I was married in '72. I also have corning ware baking casserole dishes with lids.The chip and dip set Ameliabloomer pictured sparked a memory. I do believe my mom had that set. ![;)](//storage.proboards.com/5645536/images/Q_m8lDOvc_3Le3r1GKdf.jpg)
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Post by stampinfraulein on Sept 12, 2015 19:35:24 GMT
I have been collecting for about 12 years but I am very selective and these days I really only buy to resell. I also have a rule that they have to be thrifted/garage sale/estate sale found, just because it's more of a challenge. My best find was a few months ago, when I found a Starburst spacesaver promo with the lid and cradle at the Goodwill. They were priced separately so I think about $10ish for all. That is a dish that regularly goes for $250-$300 on eBay! I went weak-kneed when I saw it in the bin! I may sell it at some point but for now I am just admiring it.
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Post by caro on Sept 12, 2015 19:38:48 GMT
I collected for a while. I still watch for pieces I like but I don't have much room to put it right now. I've gotten a little more since I took these but nothing exciting. The bottom is some real and fake jadite and some glasbake mugs. The egg cups are ones that we had when I was a kid. My mom gave them to me. ![](http://stevengale.smugmug.com/Other/Blog-projects/i-8MxPBJk/0/O/pyrex3sm.jpg) ![](http://stevengale.smugmug.com/Other/Blog-projects/i-5gk96zQ/0/O/pyrex2sm.jpg) I am jealous. Love the cabinet and dishes.
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Post by alissa103 on Sept 12, 2015 20:27:33 GMT
Wow, I love these pieces and collections y'all are posting!!! I don't collect, but I have some sentimental pieces from both grandmas kitchens that I specifically asked for. No one else in the family cared either way, so I was happy to get them. From my granny (mom's mom) I have the primary colored refridgertor set with lids (yellow square baker with a blue and two small red ones that all stack perfectly together). Circa 40-50s. I love it! She used to make apple cobbler in the yellow baker and I do now as well ![:)](//storage.proboards.com/5645536/images/MNrJDkDuSwqIMVw33MdD.jpg) From my grandma (dad's mom), I have the primary nesting mixing bowl set plus an extra yellow big bowl. She used these all the time and served potato salad in the yellow bowls at family cookouts and things. Love them. Also circa 40-50s. I recently found an extra red dish for the refrigerator set at Goodwill for 50cents. I bought it just in case. ![;)](//storage.proboards.com/5645536/images/Q_m8lDOvc_3Le3r1GKdf.jpg) I do always check thrift stores for pieces, though.
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Post by crimsoncat05 on Sept 13, 2015 3:31:42 GMT
Wow, I love these pieces and collections y'all are posting!!! I don't collect, but I have some sentimental pieces from both grandmas kitchens that I specifically asked for. No one else in the family cared either way, so I was happy to get them. From my granny (mom's mom) I have the primary colored refridgertor set with lids (yellow square baker with a blue and two small red ones that all stack perfectly together). Circa 40-50s. I love it! She used to make apple cobbler in the yellow baker and I do now as well ![:)](//storage.proboards.com/5645536/images/MNrJDkDuSwqIMVw33MdD.jpg) From my grandma (dad's mom), I have the primary nesting mixing bowl set plus an extra yellow big bowl. She used these all the time and served potato salad in the yellow bowls at family cookouts and things. Love them. Also circa 40-50s. I recently found an extra red dish for the refrigerator set at Goodwill for 50cents. I bought it just in case. ![;)](//storage.proboards.com/5645536/images/Q_m8lDOvc_3Le3r1GKdf.jpg) I do always check thrift stores for pieces, though. ^^^ My mom has that set, and the yellow one was always used to make a frozen pineapple / marshmallow / Cool Whip salad for Christmas dinner. It just wouldn't taste the same if it was made in a different container!!
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Post by ceepea on Sept 13, 2015 3:58:48 GMT
I feel like a life-long wino who just discovered gin. I just caved and bought my first vintage patterned Pyrex. The black snowflake stuff has beckoned to me for years, but I staunchly resisted it. I have quite enough collections, thank you very much, and didn't need to fall into the Pyrex world... ..until, jonesing, I stopped in a thrift store on the way home and this beauty followed me home (internet photo): ![](https://img0.etsystatic.com/000/0/5267797/il_570xN.33412126.jpg) I love that it's cream colored, not white. And the gold!! What I love more: I've learned that it was a promotional item from 1958 and there are no companion pieces. So I'm done, right? Just one shot of gin? What patterns do y'all collect? (Photos encouraged.) I have yet to find that heart piece!! And I want it!! I actually have a Pyrex problem. This is one corner of my kitchen. I also have pieces and sets all around and hidden away. When I started running out of room I starting putting the sets I didn't care for behind closed cabinet doors. I do use these and my kids at anytime can grab one to use as well. ![](http://i59.tinypic.com/209m71j.jpg) I love your pyrex collection, but I am dying over your table. Can you tell us a bit about it?
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