Annandale hosts Heisey class show
Glass collectors from all over the nation are converging at the Annandale Fire Station’s bingo hall this weekend for the 37th Annual All-Heisey Glass Show and Sale. 
All the glassware on display—vases, figurines, dinnerware, cake stands, punch bowls, drinking glasses—and much more—were produced by A.H. Heisey & Co., founded in Newark, Ohio, in 1896. The company produced some of the highest-quality glassware in America until it went out of business in 1957. 
The show, organized by the National Capital Heisey Collectors Club, is open Sunday, 11 a.m.-4 p.m. Admission is $7. This year’s show has the theme, “Spring Blooms with Heisey,” and features 19 dealers from as far as Florida, Maine, and Ohio, as well as nearer locations, including Beswick’s Antiques of Annandale.
Sherry Warren, NCHCC secretary/treasury, says people like to collect Heisey glassware because “it is elegant, has crisp, clean colors, and the company hired innovative designers,” like Emil Krall and Eva Zeisel. Warren estimates she has about 2,000 Heisey pieces.
Some of the rarer, more complicated pieces at the show are quite expensive. The yellow rum pot pictured on the top left is priced at $2,400, and the green “moon gleam” cake plate is $850. Many others, though are a lot more affordable.