Further Adventures of a Pyrex Collector/Hazel-Atlas Pink Elephants

It's been about seven months since my last post.  I have kept telling myself I need to get back to it.  However, I find an excuse not to sit down and blog.  Laundry, work, life it all just seemed to get in the way.  I've continued to collect Pyrex over these months.  However, I have been collecting other things as well.  I have started collecting depression glass and other vintage items.  So with that said I have decided not to only blog about Pyrex but encompass all of my collecting.  So without further ado I bring you "Pink Elephant" by Hazel-Atlas Glass.  Manufacturing of this pattern began circa 1948.  It includes a cocktail shaker, ice bucket, shot glasses, and other various size glasses.

Initially I purchased six of these cocktail glasses at a antique store on the far north side of Chicago.  They had been on the shelf for years.  I remember seeing them the first time I went in the store.  I finally inquired about them this spring.  There was no price marked on them.  She told me the price and said she would work with me.  I could not afford them at the time so the owner graciously allowed me to put them on lay-a-way.  She had no minimum down and no time-frame in which they had to be paid off.   So I put my money down and went on my way.  Several weeks later I returned and got them out of lay-a-way.

The last two I purchased where found at a antique store in southern Indiana.  I saw them on a trip earlier this summer.  They had three more of the glasses I had already purchased (unfortunately I had just missed the old-fashioned glasses that they had in stock).  For some reason I decided to pass on them. When my cousin and myself returned at the end of the summer the glasses were still there.  I decided to purchase two of them.  Making my collection a total of eight.  As I feared when I got the two newest ones home they did not match completely.  I believe the first six may have been through a dishwasher.  The elephants are a little bit lighter on them.