How much is a Pyrex Flameware percolator worth?
A Pyrex Flameware percolator is clear stovetop glass with a molded number, often 7756. It is not the white Corning Ware pot and not a patterned mixing bowl.
Short answerA Pyrex Flameware percolator is clear stovetop glass, marked Flameware, not the white Corning Ware pot and not a patterned bowl. The molded number, often in the 7754, 7756, or 7759 series, is the model. A broken stem or a missing basket changes the sale. Compare sold listings of that number.
Pyrex Flameware is Corning’s clear rangetop glass, not the opaque mixing bowls and not Corning Ware. A Flameware percolator is a clear pot, often with a slight blue tint in the glass, a metal band, a handle, a lid, a glass stem, and a basket. The number is molded into the base and often stamped on the band. The Corning Museum of Glass records a 7756 as a six-cup Flameware percolator, with 7756B on the base and 7756 on the band. The neighboring numbers in that series are 7754 and 7759. Read the number on your pot, and read any cup lines molded in the glass. Do not borrow a 7756 sale for a pot that says something else.
The white Corning Ware percolator is the other coffeepot people confuse with this one. It has its own guide, and it is the pot named in the 1979 CPSC corrective action about handles and metal bands separating. That notice says the problem does not extend to Pyrex clear-glass percolators. Clear is not a permission slip from this page. Flameware was sold for the rangetop with its own cautions, including heat and boiling dry, and those words belong to the instructions that came with the piece. If you do not have them, do not invent a modern warranty. Chips, a cracked stem, and a missing basket are condition. They are also how a complete pot becomes a parts pot.
What should you look for?
- Flameware, in the glass
- The word Flameware, or the Pyrex Flameware mark, molded in the base or stamped on the band. A clear pot with no mark is not identified yet. A white pot is the Corning Ware guide. A colored mixing bowl is a different Pyrex line entirely.
- The molded number
- 7756, 7754, 7759, or the number that is actually there, including a letter suffix such as B on the body. The lid and the stem carry their own marks. Photograph each. A number you remember from a caption is not a number you may add.
- Stem, basket, and band
- The glass stem is the part that breaks. The basket and its metal plates are the coffee works. The band holds the handle. Say which of those you have. A pot with no stem is a pot with no stem. Do not call it complete because the lid still fits.
- Chips and cloudiness
- Rim chips, a crack at the band channel, and a stem that is already cracked are damage. A light blue cast in clear Flameware is the glass, not a stain. Brown coffee staining is use. Show the worst of it. A dishwasher cloud is condition, not a rarer tint.
What moves the price?
- Number and cup lines
- Comp the molded number, and say what the cup lines read. A six-cup 7756 is not a smaller pot and not a nine-cup neighbor. One complete sale with a bright basket does not price your pot if the stem is gone. Match the parts, then the price.
- The parts that break
- A sound stem and a full basket are why a buyer wants this instead of a decorative pot. Replacements are not something you should promise unless you have them. Disclose a glued handle or a replaced band. Original is a claim you can support with photos of the marks, not a mood.
- Not the white pot
- Corning Ware comps, especially a patterned P-149, do not transfer to clear Flameware. The safety notice splits them on purpose. If your sold search is full of white pots, you searched the wrong object. Start again with Flameware and the number.
- Use versus display
- Some people still cook in vintage Flameware. Some will not. This page does not referee that. It tells you to read the instructions you have and to price the pot as the marked glass in the condition you can show. A cracked stem ends the user claim.
Where can you sell it?
- eBay
- Flameware, the number, cup lines if they are molded, and a parts list: lid, stem, basket, band. Photos through the glass so a crack shows. Read the current fee. A single chipped pot with no stem may not clear a label. Say so to yourself before you pack it.
- Local
- Right for a heavy, incomplete, or sharp-chipped pot, and for a buyer who wants to look through the glass in person. Do not ship a cracked stem and call it a surprise.
- Parts
- A marked lid or a sound stem can be the sale when the pot is cracked. Title the number on that part. A basket with no number is a weaker search. Show the piece. Do not attach it, in the title, to a pot you do not have.
What can a photo settle?
A side with the cup lines readable, the base mark including Flameware and the number, the band stamp, the stem, the basket, and any chip at the rim. Worth can call a clear banded pot a percolator from the shape. It cannot tell 7756 from 7759 if the number is out of frame, and it cannot see a crack in the stem you left in the sink.
What else do people ask?
- Is Flameware the same as Corning Ware?
- No. Flameware is clear Pyrex rangetop glass. Corning Ware percolators are the white pots, including codes such as P-149, and they are the pots in the 1979 CPSC notice. The notice says that separation problem does not extend to Pyrex clear-glass percolators. The marks are how you tell which pot you have.
- What does 7756 mean?
- The Corning Museum of Glass records a Pyrex Flameware percolator numbered 7756 as a six-cup pot, with the number on the base and on the band. Your pot is 7756 only if it says so. 7754 and 7759 are different numbers in the same series. Read the glass.
- The stem is broken. Is the pot worthless?
- It is incomplete. Price it as a pot without a stem, or sell the sound parts separately with their numbers. Do not borrow a complete-pot sale. A replacement stem is a claim only if you have one and it is the right number.