Basket Handler Marks
Attaching basket handles requires a great deal of skill. There's less than 30 seconds to attach and shape a handle before the glass cools down and is no longer workable.
In the 1950s, company President Frank M. Fenton and his brother Bill Fenton, Vice-President, decided that each Fenton basket handler should have a distinctive mark so collectors could identify the artisan who created their basket.
These marks are impressed at the base of each side of the basket handle. We currently have five skilled basket handlers at Fenton. Featured below are our handler's marks, accompanied by their employment dates. For more information on creating Fenton handles, click here.
To read about Fenton's first basket handler, Frank O. Myers, click here.
To see the production steps involved in making our 6" 2010 Spring Family Signing Event Exclusive Rosalene Basket, click here to download the basket production PDF.
Handler's Marks from 1907-Current:
Apprentice Mark
Jon Anderson
1992 - 2011
Donald Badgley
1956 - 1978
Ron Bayles
1956 - 1997
Fred Bruce
1953 - 1990
Bob Buchanan
1990 - 2004
Rob Camden
1998 - 2003
D. Austin Dallison
1933 - 1982
Terry Deuley
1989 - 1999
Floyd Duff
1962 - 1978
Ronald Farley
1993 - 2004
Edwin J. Garber
1957 - 1968
Brian Green
1986 - 2011
Tom Ingram
1996 - 2011
Lloyd Lauderman
1953 - 1993
Frank O. Myers
1932 - 1962
Andy Newland
1986 - 2007
Robert Oliver, Sr.
1957 - 1995
Greg Parsons
2000 - 2001
Bob Patterson
1973 - 1996
J.R. Phillips
1986 - 1995
Jim Ralston
1992 - 2005
Peter K. Raymond
1907-1913 & 1921-1964
Matt Stanley
2000 - 2001
Delmer Stowasser
1965 - 1990
Junior Thompson
1957-1977 & 1990-93
Dave Vincent
1964 - 2005
Frank Workman
1996 - 2011
Butch Wright
1973 - 2011
