Indiana Glass:Whitehall Pattern

In the early part of the 1960s the Indiana Glass company introduced what would become one of their most popular lines, and is now among the ones most collected–the Whitehall line.

This is Pattern Number "521" in the Indiana Glass Company. Whitehall may have achieved its popularity due to the similarities it holds to the Fosteria pattern called American.

Whitehall does look very much like the American pattern and is available in multiple colors much as it was.

Indiana Glass’Whitehall Pattern was produced in  gold or amber, crystal and olive green, as well as a gorgeous pale blue, a teal color and the crystal clear with a ruby stain.

The 1980’s saw the pattern still popular and blue and green carnival glass candy bowls were added to the offerings for the Whitehall pattern.
The American Whitehall pattern, close to the Whitehall, but not the same.  Now here’s where it gets confusing.

Fostoria company was bought by Lancaster Colony in the early part of the 80’s. Whitehall pattern is  made from the basic beginning Indiana Glass mold, and then post purchaseAmerican Whitehall was produced after the purchase of Fostoria, and was made actually using Fostoria molds, or so I"m told.

The name was then changed to American Whitehall, which means that prior to the early part of the 1980’s your glassware is probably Whitehall, and later than perhaps 1980, that same glassware changed to American Whitehall and the molds were not the same ones used to produce the basic Whitehall.
There are some pronounced differences between the two different glasswares, so depending on what you’re collecting you’re going to want to pay attention to detail.