24th Annual Tennessee Elegant and Depression Glass

Show and Sale

Gallatin Civic Center, July 19-20, 2025

The Fostoria Glass Society of Tennessee is pleased to announce that the 2025 Tennessee Elegant and Depression Glass Show and Sale will be held on the usual third weekend in July at the Gallatin Civic Center.  The Civic Center is located at 201 E. Albert Gallatin Avenue, Gallatin, TN 37066.  

The venue is in a suburb of Nashville - 35 miles from the Fairgrounds where previous shows have been held. 

At the show dealers from across the country will offer a wide variety of American-made glassware and pottery for you to browse and buy.  Show hours are 10 am to 5 pm on Saturday and 11 am to 3 pm on Sunday.  Admission to the show is $8.00 per person, good for both days.  Parking is free and convenient.

The show is devoted exclusively to glassware made by American manufacturers.  Most of the manufacturers of this glassware are no longer in business, and the show provides an opportunity to see and purchase items that cannnot be acquired in today's retail stores.  The vendors will have early American pattern glass (EAPG), depression-era glass, elegant glass, mid-centurn modern glass, and kitchen glassware such as Fire King and Pyrex.  

We expect to have twenty dealers from across the country participate in the 2025 show.  The dealer list for 2025 is:

Dennis Bialek, Florida 

Roger Bowen, Oklahoma 

Pam Dunkel, Illinois

Pat & Sharon Ervin, Illinois 

Jonathan Fields, Missouri 

Pam & Bob Franscella, South Carolina 

Adam Headley, Georgia

Sue Janke, Wisconsin                                               

Lorrie Kitchen & Mark Hunter, Ohio 

James & Leora Leasure, Pennsylvania

Sherry & Reid Lisak, Tennessee

Rob & Amy McMichael, Texas 

Art & Shirley Moore, Oklahoma

Brooke & Larry Newton, Florida

Steve & Carla Rausch, Oklahoma

Carolyn & Glen Robinson, South Carolina

Cecil Taylor, Texas 

Debbie Traver, North Carolina

Jodi & Mark Uthe, Iowa

John Walk, Illinois

On Saturday at 1 pm, Mary Sue Lyon will give a seminar on Fostoria glass decorations.  She is the author of a book on Fostoria's Gold, Enamel, and Iridescent Factory Decorations which was published in January 2025 by The Glass Flakes Press of the Museum of American Glass in WV.  The seminar will review the results of an extensive search through the Fostoria Glass Company records to find its gold, enamel, and iridescent decorations primarily applied from 1915 to 1940.  Many example of these decorations will be on display.

The show will also feature a display of glass from the collections of members of the Fostoria Glass Society of Tennessee.

The show is hosted by the Fostoria Glass Society of Tennessee, a chapter of the Fostoria Glass Society of America.  Proceeds from the show are used to support the Fostoria Glass Museum in Moundsville, WV, and other museums and programs devoted to preserving the history and heritage of American-made glassware.