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Vintage Fiesta Covered Casserole

The vintage fiesta covered casserole can be found in all eleven vintage colors, including medium green. Collectors will rejoice being able to add such a large and decorated piece in medium green to their collections. Like many vintage pieces, production techniques changed throughout the years in search of quicker methods. The very earliest casseroles had a separately cast foot ring that would had to have been painstakingly applied to the body of the pot by hand. This laborious method was quickly worked around and by the end of the first year of production Homer Laughlin had figured out how to turn the bottom and foot into a single modled piece, but the foot would still need slightly worked by hand, flaring it out and etching rings onto it at the jiggering machine. Both the handles and the lid finial had to be applied by hand throughout the entire length of the production run.

Dimensions

9 3/4" wide from handle edge to handle edge x 5 3/4" tall from base to top of finial.

Marks

Marked on the bottom in the impressed in mold mark: "fiesta HLCo USA" or "Fiesta MADE IN USA".

Years of production

Circa 1936-1969: Made in all eleven original vintage colors. Red discontinued from the end of 1942 until reintroduced in 1959.