Jadeite gets the spotlight, but Anchor Hocking's Fire-King line ran for four decades and produced a dozen other patterns that quietly outperform it on certain pieces. Sapphire Blue, Peach Lustre, Jane Ray, Alice, Turquoise Blue, Restaurant Ware — here's what each is selling for and which pieces lead.
| Piece | Sold for | Sold |
|---|---|---|
| Sapphire Blue 1-pint measuring cup, 1940s | $395 | May 18 |
| Turquoise Blue mixing bowl set, complete 3-piece | $235 | May 16 |
| Peach Lustre 9-piece dinner set, no chips | $165 | May 14 |
| Jane Ray (ivory) full place setting, 4-piece | $85 | May 12 |
| Alice pattern dinner plate, early floral | $42 | May 10 |
Snapshot estimated from recent eBay sold-listings data across non-jadeite Fire-King patterns. Numbers refresh every Sunday. For an exact current price on a specific piece, scan it.
Fire-King is Anchor Hocking's heat-resistant glassware line, launched in 1942 and produced through the mid-1970s. Jadeite is the famous pattern, but the line ran much wider — including a half-dozen patterns that today have their own collector bases and price ranges. The median across all non-jadeite Fire-King is lower than jadeite (around $25 versus jadeite's $45+), but individual pieces in the right pattern routinely beat anything jadeite produces.
Sapphire Blue (sometimes called Philbe blue) was produced briefly in the 1940s and is the highest-individual-piece pattern in the Fire-King family. The 1-pint measuring cup is the headliner — clean examples regularly fetch $300-$500. A complete set of Sapphire Blue measuring cups (1-cup, 2-cup, 1-pint) can land between $800 and $1,200. The blue is unmistakable: a deep, clear cobalt-adjacent sapphire that catches light differently than any other Fire-King pattern.
Peach Lustre is the iridescent copper-tint pattern, produced from the early 1950s into the 1960s. Pieces glow with a metallic peachy-pink shimmer over a milk-glass body. Single dinner plates sell for $20-$35, complete dinner sets for $150-$250, and rarer pieces like the Peach Lustre pitcher or three-tier serving stand can hit $100+. Copper-Tint is the related darker variant, and Lustre Shell is the scalloped-edge cousin — all three trade in the same price band and reward complete sets.
Jane Ray is the ivory pattern with concentric rings around the rim, produced from 1945 through the 1960s. It has the broadest collector demand of any non-jadeite Fire-King — pieces appear in nearly every estate sale that includes 1950s housewares. The flip side: per-piece values are modest. Common cups and saucers sit at $8-$15, dinner plates at $12-$25, and complete place settings at $40-$85. Jane Ray wins on volume, not per-piece price.
Alice (the early floral with a delicate hand-painted-style flower around the rim) was produced from 1945 into the early 1950s — relatively short run, modest survival rate. Dinner plates fetch $40-$80, full place settings $120-$200. Alice is harder to find than Jane Ray and tends to surface in the estates of households that bought the pattern new.
Turquoise Blue from the late 1950s is a softer, pastel turquoise — sometimes confused with jadeite at a glance. The mixing bowl set is the headliner: a complete 3-piece nested set in good condition fetches $200-$300. Splash-proof bowls and dinnerware in Turquoise Blue trade in the $25-$60 range. The pattern saw less production than Jane Ray, which keeps prices firm.
Fire-King Restaurant Ware (the heavyweight diner-style ivory pieces) is the volume leader of the line — produced for commercial use and now widely available. Per-piece ceilings are lower ($15-$45 for most pieces), but the right pieces — the embossed coffee mugs, the heavy oval platters, the original creamer-sugar sets — still earn collector premiums.
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Sapphire Blue is the highest-priced individual pattern outside jadeite — single Sapphire Blue measuring cups (1940s production) regularly sell for $300-$500. After that, Peach Lustre commands the strongest set premiums ($150-$250 for complete dinner sets), Turquoise Blue mixing bowl sets reach $200-$300, and Alice pattern (the early floral) sees $40-$80 per dinner plate. Restaurant Ware is the volume leader but has a lower per-piece ceiling, typically $15-$45.
Fire-King is a product line made by Anchor Hocking — they're the same company. Pieces marked "Fire-King" on the base are the heat-resistant oven-glass line introduced in 1942. Anchor Hocking also produced standard glassware (Forest Green, Royal Ruby, etc.) under just "Anchor Hocking" or no mark at all. The Fire-King mark indicates oven-safe milk glass or tempered glass; the company name alone indicates general glassware.
Jane Ray (the ivory pattern with concentric rings) has broader collector demand but lower individual-piece prices — $8-$25 for common pieces, $40-$85 for complete place settings. Peach Lustre (the iridescent copper-tint glaze) is the higher-margin pattern — single dinner plates fetch $20-$35, complete dinner sets $150-$250, and rare pieces like the Peach Lustre pitcher or 3-tier serving stand can hit $100+. Peach Lustre wins on individual-piece returns; Jane Ray wins on consistent volume.