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Collector
Glass
News
Dec/Jan/Feb/ 2011
Issue No. 106
“An international Publication of the PGCA providing current news to collectors of cartoon, fast-food, sports, and
promotional glassware”
The Green Hornet is appearing at
theatres this winter in a new movie.
PGCA members Jimmy Driver and
Jimmy Tyler have shared some pictures
from some scarce and desirable Green
Hornet, Kato and Lenore Case glasses.
Auction 105 closes Feb 19, 2011
Editor's Notes
ISSUE 106
This issue of Collector Glass News would not be possible without the hard work of Brent Sehnert,
editor of CGN for the last 11 years, and Mark Chase and Mike Kelly, the previous editors and
founders of CGN. They have given glass collectors a fine publication, with the help of many
contributors, writers and photographers. With help from Brent Sehnert, Fred Stepanian, Mike Vath,
Tom Coughlin, David Lester, Jimmy Driver, Jimmy Tyler and many others I hope to continue in
this issue to provide glass collectors with interesting and current information on this enjoyable
hobby. The newsletter cannot survive without contributions, so please send articles, photos, new
issue information, classified ads and glass collecting information to Brian Callahan at 317-345-4547
or bricall@att.net.
In this issue is a Warner Brothers Checklist and article by Tom Coughlin, who has worked out a
fine tool to keep track of the variations in this popular set. Some new issues of glasses have been
found by Tom, Sean Will, Brent and others, as well as some unusual glass finds by our club
President, Fred Stepanian. Also in this issue is glasses auction 105 with some great items.
We have been updating the club website www.pgcaglassclub.com which is a great tool for members
and other collectors. Don't forget to browse and submit glasses to the glasses database, developed
and maintained by Steve Simek. The PGCA Annual Meeting 2011 is May 20th and 21st in
Columbus, OH at Best Western Suites 1133 Evans Way Court 614-870-2378.
Attention Members! The Club website has been revamped to allow easier
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Staff: Editor: Brian Callahan Writer: Brent Sehnert Auctions: Carl & Mary Sehnert
Promotional Glass Collectors Association Officers: President: Fred Stepanian
Vice President: Alice Clark, Treasurer: Marilyn Johnston, Secretary: David Lester
Board Members: Mike Vath, Brent Sehnert, Brian Callahan
Elections for club officers are held each May at the annual meeting. Each office is a two year term.
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Advertising Rates: Free member classified ads may be submitted to bricall@att.net or
317-345-4547. If you have questions about display ads or rates contact Brian Callahan at
317-345-4547 or bricall@att.net
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New Issues
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Sean Will reports that the Trend Setters store at local SW Pennsylvania malls have
Marvel glasses, in 4 glass box sets. The glasses come in 10 oz., 14 oz. and 16 oz.
sizes. The box sets are of Iron Man, Spiderman, or The Hulk. There may be some
new versions or new characters in 2011.
Gordmans Department stores have a large selection of character glasses,
including Beatles, Elvis, Marilyn Monroe, Playboy, Godfather, Ozzie Osborn, Kiss
Black Crows and other characters. They also have a large assortment of beer brands.
Some of the character sets like the Beatles have several different versions.
Tom Coughlin has found at the Arbys in Michigan, a Michigan vs Michigan State
glass. Titled The Big Chill at the Big House, the glass is promoting the hockey game
for these 2 colleges on 12-11-2010. This is a nice looking Arbys glass. It is on a heavy
pounder style glass, with the Arbys logo.
Another evolving story concerning collectible glasses is the issue of cadmium and
lead paint on glasses. The last Shrek glass promotion from McDonald's was recalled
due to the cadmium on the glass. Even though the amount of cadmium was minimal
and the US Government did not insist on a recall, McDonald's recalled the Shrek glasses.
According to an AP article in my local paper the US Consumer Product Safety Commission
said it was collecting samples of all glasses cited in an AP investigation into dangerous
metals in children's merchandise. The article stated that two companies that imported the
glasses from China, with Superman, Wonder Woman, and Wizard of Oz characters,
recalled about 160,000 glasses. These particular glasses were purchased at the WB
store and were tested by Associated Press. Regulators are more strict if they consider
these type of glasses to be a children's product. It remains to be seen what impact these
investigations will have on the future of glass promotions in the US and other countries.
Interesting to me was the color photo in the Indianapolis paper for this article shows an
Olympus Innov-X Delta Handheld XRF Analyzer being used to test a 1970's glass
with Ronald McDonald in the action series. It's a little late to recall that one I think.
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Pepsi Warner Brothers 1973 Collector Series
Character
Beaky Buzzard
Brockway 6 ¼”
16 oz. LOS
White Letters
All 18 Available
Brockway 6 ¼”
16 oz. LOS
Black Letters
All 18 Available
LOS= Pepsi Logo on Side
LUN= Pepsi Logo Under Name
All LUN Glasses are Black Letters
Brockway 6 ¼”
16 oz. LUN
Black Letters
Only 6 Available
Not Available
Federal 6 ¼”
16 oz. LOS
White Letters
Only 14 Available
Not Available
Not Available
Federal 6 ¼”
16 oz. LOS
Black Letters
All 18 Available
Bugs Bunny
Cool Cat
Daffy Duck
Elmer Fudd
Not Available
Foghorn Leghorn
Not Available
Not Available
Henerey Hawk
Not Available
Not Available
Pepe Le Pew
Not Available
Petunia Pig
Not Available
Porky Pig
Road Runner
Slo Pk Rodriguez
Not Available
Speedy Gonzalez
Not Available
Not Available
Sylvester
Tasmanian Devil
Not Available
Tweety
Wile E. Coyote
Not Available
Yosemite Sam
Not Available
Variations:
Cool Cat, 6 ¼” Brockway white letters LOS, can be found with eyes open and with eyes squinting.
Elmer Fudd, 6 ¼“ Brockway black letters LOS, no Warner Brothers.
Foghorn Leghorn, 6 ¼” Brockway black letters LOS, no Warner Brothers.
Pepe Le Pew, 6 ¼” Federal and Brockway LOS, clear unpainted eyes.
Petunia Pig, 6 ¼” Federal white letters LOS, clear unpainted eyes.
Road Runner, 6 ¼” Brockway black letters LOS, no “Beep Beep” coming out of mouth.
Road Runner, 6 ¼” Brockway black letters LOS, no Warner Brothers.
Road Runner, 6 ¼” Brockway black letters LOS, feet on one side of glass touching his feet on the other side.
Road Runner 5 1/8” 12 oz. Brockway black letters LOS feet touching, no “Beep Beep”. VERY RARE
Sylvester, 6 ¼” Brockway LOS black letters, small red nose instead of more common large nose.
Tasmanian Devil, 6 ¼” Brockway LOS, chocolate brown body & lettering, orange stomach, green face.
Tasmanian Devil, 6 ¼” Brockway white letters LOS, word “DEVIL” missing on one side of glass ****.
Tweety, 6 ¼” Brockway black letters LOS, no Warner Brothers.
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Pepsi Warner Brothers 1973 Collector Series
Character
Federal 6 ¼”
16 oz. LUN
Black Letters
All 18 Available
Beaky Buzzard
Federal 6”
15 oz. LUN
Black Letters
Total Unsure
Exist ?
Federal 5 1/8”
12 oz. LUN
Black Letters
Only 6 Available
Not Available
Brockway 5 1/8”
12 oz. LUN
Black Letters
Only 6 Available
Not Available
*Brockway 5 1/8”
12 oz. LOS
Black Letters
Total Unsure
Not Available
Bugs Bunny
Rare
Cool Cat
Not Available
Not Available
Not Available
Daffy Duck
Rare
Elmer Fudd
Not Available
Not Available
Not Available
Foghorn Leghorn
Not Available
Not Available
Not Available
Not Available
Not Available
Not Available
Not Available
Not Available
Not Available
Not Available
Not Available
Not Available
Henerey Hawk
Rare
Pepe Le Pew
Petunia Pig
Rare
Porky Pig
Rare
Road Runner
Rare
Slo Pk Rodriguez
Exist ?
Speedy Gonzalez
Not Available
Not Available
**Very Rare
Not Available
Not Available
Not Available
Sylvester
Tasmanian Devil
Rare
Rare
Not Available
Not Available
Not Available
Tweety
***Exist ?
Wile E. Coyote
Not Available
Not Available
Not Available
Yosemite Sam
Not Available
Not Available
Not Available
*No Federal glasses listed in PGCA Database.
**Existence verified Ebay 2007
***No listing in PGCA database, listed in Collectible Drinking Glasses, Chase and Kelly, page 29
****Existence verified Ebay 10/2010
All data for this chart taken from the following sources:
PGCA Database
Collectible Drinking Glasses by Mark Chase and Michael Kelly
Tomart’s Price Guide to Character & Promotional Glasses by Carol Huffman and Tom Hoder
Contemporary Fast-Food and Drinking Glass Collectibles by Mark Chase and Michael Kelly
Checklist compiled by Tom Coughlin
Unusual Glasses
Fred Stepanian
Fred Stepanian found some unusual glasses on a trip to Canada. Shown are glasses
from an eight glass Jurrasic Park set that was probably not released, a set of four
from Libbey-St. Clair promoting glassware as a form of advertising, and an unusual
Police Academy and Star Trek glass. Fred also found a color variation of the Canadian
Peter Pen short Big Chief glass.
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Presidents Message
Hello fellow members,
I would like to wish all club members a belated Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year.
As a new year begins I have a good feeling our club will continue to thrive and grow. As I look back
over last years newsletters I see a few new collectors joining our club each issue, our website continues
to attract new people who share our interests and weren’t aware that we existed and our yearly Annual
Meeting continues to be well attended and enjoyed.
Our Annual Meeting will again be in Columbus, Ohio in May. Details and dates of this event are in
this newsletter. Please plan on attending as it is a great chance to meet fellow glass collectors, sell or
trade your duplicate glasses and add some additional glasses to your collection.
It is amazing to me how several club members still seem to find many interesting glasses on eBay,
Craig’s List or in their travels that we never knew existed. I’m guessing that over the course of a year
over one hundred glasses are discovered that aren’t in any book and no one has ever seen or heard of.
Someone is always finding glasses of a different size or color variation, an unknown character or even
a unknown set of glasses to add to our database.
Just when you think that you completed a set that you have been working on someone will come up to
you and say “ did you know those glasses also come in a taller size" or "are you going to collect the
same glasses in a wavy bottom." Just look in this issue and you will see what I mean. Very few
hobbies can claim this perk.
God I love this hobby!! God I hate this hobby!!
Hope to see you all in May.
Happy glass hunting,
Fred Stepanian.
Welcome new members:
Ronda Martin. Spotsylvania, VA
Ken Riddle. Ft. Atkinson, WI
Matt Stoll. Buffalo, NY
Teresa Lassiter. Ederton, NC
Carl Dunn. Lenoir City, TN
Holland Perdue. Rocky Mount, VA
Pamela Stice. Newton, IA
Dennis Kelly. Oneida, NY
PGCA ANNUAL MEETING will be May 20th and 21st, 2011 in Columbus, OH.
This is the same weekend as the large Springfield, OH Extravaganza Flea M arket.
Our meeting site is at the Best Western Suites located at 1133 Evans Way Court
in Columbus, OH right off of I-70, on the west side of Columbus. The PGCA
annual meeting is a great place to meet other collectors, buy, sell and trade
glasses, and enjoy the many interesting shops, malls and attractions in the area.
The club has a get together Friday night, and on Saturday a silent auction, and
business meeting in the evening. Plus lots of room hopping and good fun. The
phone number for reservations is 614-870-2378.
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More Warner Brothers
Tom Coughlin
Interesting Facts: The Pepsi 1973 Warner Brothers Collector Series
The first cartoon glasses to be released by Pepsi in the United States and Canada were the 18 Warner
Brothers Cartoon Characters in 1973. This was done to encourage fast food restaurants to sell their
brand of soft drinks exclusively. The promotion was a huge success, and Pepsi continued to license
cartoon characters throughout the 1970’s.
You buy a glass of Pepsi and for 49 cents more get to keep the glass! What a concept.
They were originally released in upstate New York by the Carroll’s Restaurant Chain, now Burger
King. The restaurant originally ordered six characters; Bugs Bunny, Daffy Duck, Porky Pig, Road
Runner, Sylvester, and Tweety. They were so popular that Carroll’s decided to order additional
characters until the series numbered eighteen.
The original six characters are much easier for collectors to find these days than the remaining twelve.
Many restaurants only ordered the original six. Approximately 14.5 million glasses of the entire series
were produced.
At first, the 12 ounce glasses were available. As the success of the promotion spread, more and more
restaurants that sold Pepsi participated. The larger 16 ounce (and the rare 15 ounce) glasses soon
replaced the shorter glasses (you get more Pepsi in the 16 ounce glass!). The Pepsi logo first appeared
under the character’s image (LUN), and then was relegated to the side of the glass between the two
images (LUS) to accommodate a larger image of the character.
The Brockway Glass Company could not keep up with the demand, and the Federal Glass Company
started producing a glass that was thinner and more delicate. While this glass was more pleasing than
the thicker, clunkier Brockways, it was easily broken. This might explain the less availability of the
Federals to today’s collectors.
Later on, the characters’ names were changed from black lettering to white. This was because the
character’s name in black letters disappeared when the glass was filled with Pepsi.
The following are the 10 categories of the 1973 series:
1) 16 ounce Brockway LOS (Logo on Side) black letters, all 18 characters
2) 16 ounce Brockway LOS white lettering, all 18 characters
3) 16 ounce Brockway LUN (Logo Under Name) black letters, only 6 characters
4) 16 ounce Federal LOS black letters, all 18 characters
5) 16 ounce Federal LOS white letters, only 14 characters
6) 16 ounce Federal LUN black letters, all 18 characters
7) 15 ounce Federal LUN black letters, total unsure*
8) 12 ounce Brockway LUN black letters, only 6 characters**
9) 12 ounce Federal LUN black letters, only 6 available
10) 12 ounce Brockway LOS black letters, total unsure***
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*15 ounce Federals: Tomart lists 16 characters excluding Beaky and Slow Poke. Chase and Kelly
lists Petunia Pig, Tasmanian Devil, and Henerey Hawk as extremely difficult to find, and “no one
really knows if there are 15 ounce LUN versions of Slow Poke Rodriguez and Beaky Buzzard.
Time will tell”.
According to a reliable source, the 15 ounce and 16 ounce thin LUN glasses may not be all Federal
glasses. Some of these glasses were actually made by Brockway, as per Brockway stickers on the
bottom of the glasses. The belief is that the slight size difference between the 15 ounce and the 16
ounce glasses may actually be because of the two different glass companies.
**The 12 ounce LUN glasses are said to have come with a metal tray.
***The 12 ounce LOS glasses are not listed in the PGCA database, but are listed in Chase and
Kelly p. 30. I do not own any of this series, but I know several people that have them.
If you would like a copy of the checklist all on one page (8 ½ X 14), please email me at
phgrtom@charter.net Most all of this information is culled from: PGCA database
John Hervey and Myles Bader Collectors’ Guide to Glass Collecting, 1988
Collectible Drinking Glasses, Mark Chase and Michael Kelly, 1988
Tomart’s Price Guide to Character and Promotional Glasses, Carol Huffman and Tom Hoder, 2000
Contemporary Fast-Food and Drinking Glass Collectibles, Mark Chase and Michael Kelly, 1996
Classifieds: For sale Tomarts Guide to Character and Promotional Glasses
third edition. New copies. $25.00 shipping included. Contact David L. Lester at
616-878-5213.
For pictures of glasses in my want list, see this link:
http://www.visi.com/~pepsimike/glasswants
Mike Vath, 952-210-4371
For Sale:Callahan's Pepsi glases- CA1091 - The Fried Pipers,CA1093 Hot Diggity.
$85.00 each or both for $160.00. My want list - Lone Star Comics Glasses - 1994-95
Need all 5 -Tomart # LO205- LO206. Adventuer Series , Arby's 1988 (need 2)
WA3280 -Bugs Bunny & WA3282 Porky Pig "lunar Lunch"
Batman SU8000 - two color & three color
Robin SU8001 - Three color & Three color variation with Robin Punching
Need a Snoopy camping Mcdonalds Managers glass PE1435 (at a fair price)
jtylerjr@yahoo.com
WANTED: any and all HouzeArt See Thru Football glasses, including the College Teams,
Super Bowl variations, Regular issues(NFL), and of course, any variations/errors.
Please contact Matt Stoll at: foxyguy66@yahoo.com
Wanted: will buy or trade for: Gullivers Travels short Jar style glasses: Gulliver, Bombo, King Little
& The Prince. Jimmy Driver, email glasgalore@aol.com, phone 540-434-5193
Want List and For Sale List of glasses at www.juniousjunior.com, along with
interesting glasses pictures, frosted ice tea reference list and American Ceramic Society
glasses reference list. Brian Callahan 317-345-4547 bricall@att.net
Lots of unusual items that you don't see every day on ebay. Seller name Snapper Collectibles
Snapsnert. Brent Sehnert. snapsnert@bellsouth.net 954-475-7289
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