Question: About five years ago, I bought a blue glass Fenton vase at a thrift shop. Almost 10-inches high, it is a hand holding a cornucopia decorated with painted flowers. The vase is signed "T.

She and a partner operate www.justglass.com, an informative Web site on all kinds and periods of glass. Haines identified the vase as a piece of early Fenton art glass. Readers accustomed to today ...