FENTON CARNIVAL GLASS By Sandra Rose
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One of the most widely recognized and most popular kinds of art glass collected today is “carnival glass.” First produced on a large scale in 1908, by the Fenton Art Glass Company, carnival glass was also mass produced that same year by the Northwood Glass Company of Wheeling, West Virginia Carnival glass, sometimes called “dope” glass by glass makers of the time, was treated when hot with metallic sprays, vapors or fumes. This “doping” or treatment was a relatively safe method for the mass production or iridized glass. The sprays, vapors and fumes that were used on the hot glass formed a very lustrous coating on the glass which was described as
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