If you like vivid, warm colors, Fiesta wares have undoubtedly attracted your attention in antique stores. Fiesta pitchers/bowls/carafes are the boldest, brightest, most eye-catching of all types ...

While Fiestaware pottery has become a hot commodity for antique collectors, the ceramic dish sets are also becoming hot items for public health officials, who warn that some of the dishes emit low ...

This is the time of the year to let colorful pottery decorate your table in rainbow of colors. The pottery is called Fiestaware.

But nostalgia aside, the vintage pieces — Fiestaware is still in business — are highly collectible and can be worth tens, and sometimes thousands, of dollars.

Vintage Fiesta dinnerware made in the 1930s is more valuable than pieces made since 1986, but some 1930s dishes are worth more than others.

After the history lesson, start your hunt for vintage Fiestaware and Franciscan dishes along antiques row. Begin at Aurora's largest antique store, Main Street Mercantile ...