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Most but not all standard color ware patterns were offered with a #500 refrigerator storage dish set. The earlier versions should also have come with the original style ridged-top lids, as opposed to the fluted-underside type provided in the 1980s. Dishes from the two time periods can be differentiated by the unique backstamp versions in use during each of those timeframes. A set in clear glass containing all three 500 series dishes was available in the 1980s as a #5000 Bake 'N' Store Set. Open stock dishes designated 510 and 512 of the same sizes as the 501s and 502s are known in clear glass, dating to around 1949. Its shape is reminiscent of the tab-handled early clear Pyrex model 231 utility dish. Of the three sizes, only the largest dish and its lid have handles. Lids were designed to accommodate stacking in either the normal or a space-saving inverted position. It is said the medium size was designed both to fit a pound of butter and to fit in a woman's hand. So popular was the new refrigerator set that, by Spring 1948, one newspaper had four different dealers' ads plus a half page national ad for it all on the same page.įrom their item numbers, they have come to be known as #500 sets or #500 series dishes. In contrast to the early clear models, they consist of four dishes in three sizes, the two small dishes and one medium dish sized to stack side by side neatly atop the large. The colorful sets introduced in 1947 as an "Oven-Refrigerator Set" were produced, except in rare cases, in painted and/or decorated opalware. Different sizes were discontinued at different times, but none appear to have remained in production past WWII. At some point, with the addition of a lid, a 4"-deep 5"x9" loaf pan was also called to serve as a refrigerator storage dish.Īll were available in sets or individually. The deep rectangular dish was also marketed without lid as a loaf pan. Top dimensions of the dishes were such that one lid fit either a deep or a shallow of its same width and breadth. The early clear dishes originally came in four different sizes: both a 2"-shallow and a 3"-deep 6"圆" square, and similarly shallow and deep 5"x9" rectangles. Although the color ware sets were introduced in 1947, quite differently-shaped clear versions had been around intermittently since 1925. The colored opalware sets were actually not the first Pyrex refrigerator dishes. If you want to collect them, there are a few things you may want to know. From these first color ware sets came a bevy of paint shade and decoration combos to coordinate with nearly every standard pattern collection. Even the most casual Pyrex enthusiast is probably familiar with the Refrigerator Storage Dish Sets with bright primary colors matching those of the iconic Multicolor nesting mixing bowls.