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For some reason, people have gone crazy buying glass chicken decorations. I think every grandmother in the country had atleast one of them in their house. In particular, the Indiana hen on nest chickens. My grandmother always kept candy in hers...I think that's what most used them for or for deviled egg plate decor. Anyways...they aren't really "old" when you think of relics or antiques but people are paying crazy prices for the real Indiana glass ones.

Unfortunately my wife has fallen into the collecting trap of them. I've been dragged to antique stores all over the place trying to find them. If you have some or know the location of some, hit me up. I can't handle too much more of the antique store smell on me.

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It is definitely some kind of fad that something online has triggered. I was talking to the owner at one antique store about it while my wife browsed around. She said that a year ago, you couldn't give the chickens away. They would sit on shelves for $5 and $10 a piece. She said "If you stand here for a few, I guarantee within the next few customers that come in, somebody will ask if we have any chickens". Sure enough, about the 3rd person that came in after she said that was on the hunt for chickens. She said "you should see the prices the horizon blue and cranberry red ones are going for on eBay and WhatNot". She pulled one up and showed me...they're active auctions for them now and they are at $400-800 with 3 or 4 days left to go. That's crazy to me for a piece of glass that you're just gonna look at.
 
Funny that you posted this. Yesterday I went and looked at a kitchen remodel. The guy is a widower. He must of had 30 of those in a hutch maybe more. He said some of them was his mother and mother in law's. I had no idea they were a thing now
 
Crow, have you been to the Old Curiosity shop in Crandall Ga? I think she had some of those. It's a REALLY cool shop with a ton of vintage "stuff". The vintage taxidermy collection in the back would be worth the drive for you. At least I think it would be.
 
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I know for a fact there's none of those things in my house. The only thing remotely similar is one of those ubiquitous blue speckled rooster cookie jars. And I actually haven't seen it lately. I guess it wandered off.
 
Yeah, they are a big thing right now. My wife has been antiquing/picking and flipping stuff as of late. She just bought 6 of those stupid chickens this week. I try not to b!+ch…I know I spend more on guns, optics, ammo, whatever. And she's making money for the time being. But I'm afraid it's a fad that's gonna play out really fast. To me, they are just useless trinkets that gather dust.
 
ImThere said:
The store we sell at has told people they have to mark them NEW if they are fake (not antique)
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My wife was talking to someone who has been selling the heck out of the new ones for cheap (compared to authentic vintage ones)…full disclosure given that they aren't antiques. Apparently, people just HAVE to have them, regardless of age. I just don't get it. But, to each their own.
 
Well I'm sure there are some but Cabbage Patch didn't get introduced until 1983. And took a few years to get popular.

Indiana Glass company that produced the hens on nests, started making them in 1955 and continued to the early 1970s.

They were already being bought and collected by the late 1950s and got really popular in the 60s and 70s. And apparently now it has rekindled. The age demographic ranges from elderly folks, to young ones in their twenties and everywhere in between. ChatGPT says the hen collecting started gaining the renewed popularity around 2021 following Covid. I'm assuming this is due to the original buyers back in the 50s and 60s are dying off and the little nicknacks are going to antique stores and estate sales.
 
I follow a page on Facebook for a picker's store, and people are always asking if anyone has them in their booth. To me it's just something else to clutter up an otherwise usable space.
 
Joe2Kool said:
Hmmm. 🤔 As a product of the 1970's, Cabbage Patch Kids were a little after my time. Adoption Dolls must've been a little before my time.
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I believe it was the late seventies when the adoption dolls came out. I remember a store in Cleveland opening up and that's all they sold. I'm sure they made a killing for a little while…
 
CATCHDAWG said:
I believe it was the late seventies when the adoption dolls came out. I remember a store in Cleveland opening up and that's all they sold. I'm sure they made a killing for a little while…
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This fad must not have made it to the tobacco and watermelon fields of eastern NC because I don't remember them at all. :D
 
I have a JM stamped antique metal chicken I dug up in my back yard metal detecting. I can let you have it for the low price of $99.99. Free shipping. I know what I have - no low ballers.

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got a couple of the nested hen. broke my wifes original one warming butter up in it...:eek: see them all the time in antique stores around here, from eight inch or so in length down to maybe two inches. not sure what you'd use them for ??? keep nitro by the bed in case of a heart attack i guess.
 
Wife now has 27 of the hen on Nests. She bought 6 while we were in Jackson this weekend...would have been 7 but she put one down and another lady grabbed it before she could get back to it😆 It just amazes me how big this fad really is. I've got a blue pearlware platter that was made when Thomas Jefferson was still alive, was used during the War of 1812...and it's only worth about $85. These hens were made in the 1970s and 1980s and are bringing $200+. I just don't get it.
 
Crow Terminator said:
Wife now has 27 of the hen on Nests. She bought 6 while we were in Jackson this weekend...would have been 7 but she put one down and another lady grabbed it before she could get back to it😆 It just amazes me how big this fad really is. I've got a blue pearlware platter that was made when Thomas Jefferson was still alive, was used during the War of 1812...and it's only worth about $85. These hens were made in the 1970s and 1980s and are bringing $200+. I just don't get it.
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How many does she want? There all over the place we have our booth at in Florence Al, at the place we visit in mouton and several other places.
 

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