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To identify and authenticate items as Blenko with absolute certainty one must be able to match a form with a Blenko design number. Blenko produced an annual catalog in each of the Historical Period years and thereafter (1947 onwards) and also most years prior. Each catalog identifies every shape available for purchase that year with a photo and corresponding design number. Fortunately all the catalogs of the Historical Period (1947-74) are available from the following sources:

 

Vintage Catalogs - Historic Reproductions

In cooperation with the Blenko Museum, high quality spiral-bound reproductions, digitally restored, are currently available for the catalog years shown below. Currently these may be purchase through the Vintage Catalogs ebay bookstore. They will soon be available directly from www.VintageCatalogs.com.

 
Early Period, Pre-1948


IMPORTANT NOTE
: All pre-1948 catalog-year assignations are only estimates. Blenko catalogs of this period were never printed with a date. Until there is conclusive evidence regarding exact dates, the catalogs will be shown here in chronological order and assigned a tentative "circa" date. So far as our research indicates, all claims of conclusive dates are as yet unsubstantiated.

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Blenko Catalog Circa 1937
late 1930's (c. 1938)
Blenko Catalog Circa 1941
early 1940's (c. 1941)
Blenko Catalog Circa 1942
early 1940's (c. 1942)
Blenko Catalog Circa 1946
mid 1940's (c. 1946)
Blenko Catalog Circa 1947
late 1940's (c. 1947)
 
Winslow Anderson Years, 1948-1953

Blenko Catalog 1948
1948 Pre-Order Only

Blenko Catalog 1949
1949
Blenko Catalog 1950
1950 Pre-Order Only
Blenko Catalog 1951
1951

1952 Blenko Catalog
1952 Available for viewing online below

Blenko Catalog 1953
1953
Wayne Husted Years, 1954-1963
scheduled to be available for purchase May 2007, pre-order a copy now by clicking on the pre-order email link and requesting the catalog year you want.
Blenko Catalog 1954
1954 from the West Virginia Museum of Glass
Blenko Catalog 1955
1955 Pre-Order Only
Blenko Catalog 1956
1956 from the West Virginia Museum of Glass
 
The Blenko Museum, 1952 &1958

full catalog available for viewing online through the links below.

1952 Blenko Catalog
1952
Blenko Catalog 1958
1958

 

1959-1983 Blenko Catalog Reprints from Schiffer Books

available at various online booksellers (ex: Barnes & Noble) and directly from the publisher's website

"Blenko Catalogs, 1959-1961 and 1984-2001", Schiffer Publishing, Ltd 2002, ISBN 0-7643-1651-6, Note: factual errors in preface and a price guide that is best ignored

 
"Blenko Glass, 1962-1971 Catalogues", Schiffer Publishing, Ltd 2000, ISBN 0-7643-1026-7, Note: factual errors in preface and a price guide that is best ignored

 

"Blenko Glass, 1972-1983 Catalogues", Schiffer Publishing, Ltd 2001, ISBN 0-7643-1383-5, Note: timeline and preface both contain factual errors, price guide is best ignored

   
 
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