Blakely Collectibles
Blakely Collectibles
United States
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BLAKELY REPRODUCTIONS
Yes, reproductions do exist in Blakely as with many other collectibles today.
The most commonly found is in the Clear Painted glasses. These glasses were reproduced by both Scaggs Drug and Western Savings & Loan.
I know this because shorly after I began collecting Blakely an ad ran in the Sunday Arizona Republic for Scaggs. That ad was advertising Blakely glasses for sale. They were sold in 4 glass box sets. I went to Scaggs at the time to see what might be different. That day I learned that they added what I would call a copyright mark to the lower corner of the design, it was a circled S. I have also attached a copy of a letter from Libbey Glass in 1984 confirming that they made the glasses for Scaggs.
Western Savings glasses also came in boxed sets of 4 as a bank promotional gift. The Western Savings glasses also have a mark in the lower corner of the design but, it will be the letter W in a circle. I went to a bank close out sale of their warehouse when they went out of business and found them selling what they had left.
Silly me at the time I had just begun collecting Blakely and funds were tight that it did not make sense for me to buy reproduction glasses, now I wish I'd done it for the boxes.
You will find folks selling the reproductions as original Blakely boxed sets. These reproduction sets came 4 to a box instead of 8 so if you find them as a box of 4, the box is not an original Blakely box but one that came from Western Savings or Skaggs. In addition, the box will be a white box with 4 cactus patterns pictured on it and a W if they came from Western Savings. The Blakely boxed gift sets held all 8 glasses in one box and were usually a pink/peach colored box with 1 single cactus in the corner of the box.
I have provided a couple of photos below for you as well to show the marking.
Libbey Glass Letter on Scaggs Drug Glasses
