Item description for Vintage Fairfield Dessert/Salad/Bread Plates by Anchor Hocking, Honey Gold 1970s

I was going through my collection of Fairfield dinnerware and discovered that I had acquired a lot more of these small plates than actually needed. They are not very commonly found. So I am making them available for purchase. I have 10 total available, although only 9 are shown in my photos. Since I have several plates for sale, I have set up discounts for multiple purchases. Unfortunately, the shipping costs don't come out right on multiple purchases, so I will have to refund the extra shipping charge when it occurs.

The plates are nearly 6 1/2 inches wide. They have a short upturned edge, so the plate is 3/4 inch high. The same pieces in a pattern vary slightly in weight, so I have averaged the weight for these plates. They weigh 10.2 ounces each, on average (between 9.7 to 10.4 ounces). They are in great condition with no damage.

The Fairfield pattern consists of a daisy-like flower design in the center, surrounded by small thumbprint or teardrop shapes that are rounded on the side facing the center of the plate, and have two angles that come to a point on the opposite side. Those are surrounded by elongated hexagons with a crease down the middle. After the hexagons are overlapping loops, which create ellipses where they overlap. The loops end in scallops around the rim of the plates, which curve upward on the edges. (The drinkware in this pattern do not have the overlapping loops and scallops -- the loops are just side by side, and the hexagons have become 4-sided polygons, and the thumbprints became flat planes. But this is due to the limitation of the shapes of drinking glasses; and they are still considered the same pattern.) With the exception of the deviled egg plate, this pattern was made only between 1972 to 1978. The golden amber color, named Honey Gold, had the most pieces made in it, and for the entire production time. This pattern was made in some colors for only part of a year; or for 1-2 years. The deviled egg plate was made in clear glass well into the 2000s. The egg plate was then renamed to Presence when Anchor Hocking introduced that pattern (about 2002).

They were called salad plates in the book* I have that covers this pattern, but a similar plate in another Anchor Hocking pattern, Wexford, was called a dessert plate. None of the collector books (to date) show any catalog pages for the Fairfield dinnerware pattern, so I don't know what Anchor Hocking called them. But plates of this type typically are dessert, or salad, or bread and butter plates. This is my favorite glassware pattern. It is so beautiful! I feel like it has gotten short shrift in the collector's books. But maybe someday an author will cover this pattern adequately!