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. Featured below are our handler's marks, accompanied by their employment dates.

  • Apprentice Mark
  • Donald Badgley
    1956 - 1978
  • Fred Bruce
    1953 - 1990
  • Rob Camden
    1998 - 2003
  • Terry Deuley
    1989 - 1999
  • Ronald Farley
    1993 - 2004
  • Brian Green
    1986 - 2011
  • Lloyd Lauderman
    1953 - 1993
  • Andy Newland
    1986 - 2007
  • Greg Parsons
    2000 - 2001
  • J.R. Phillips
    1986 - 1995
  • Peter K. Raymond
    1907-1913 & 1921-1964
  • Delmer Stowasser
    1965 - 1990
  • Dave Vincent
    1964 - 2005
  • Butch Wright
    1973 - 2011