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Left: Pressed dish, 3 7/8 in. dia. 1 in. deep, maker unknown, with fired on lettering "The National Early American Glass Club 1935"
Right: Pressed window medallion, 3 1/4 in. dia., commemorating NAGC 70-th Anniversary, Art Reed, Sweetwater Glass, DeLancey, NY
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This page updated December 6, 2011
The Glass Club Bulletin, published three times annually, is sent to the membership which includes more than fifty museums, libraries and other institutions in the United States, Canada and abroad. The Bulletin's editors have consistently brought to their readers leading scholarship in a wide variety of original articles and research, not only about American glass, but on international glass topics from antiquity to the work of contemporary artists.
The current issue of The Glass Club Bulletin, Autumn/Winter 2011, Number 220 contains:
- Cover: Decanter with stopper, cut in the Fisher Diamond Pattern. Mt. Washington Glass Company, U.S., New Bedford, Massachusetts, 1877-1885 H. 27.8 cm. The Corning Museum of Glass (2011.4.41).
- Jane Shadel Spillman, "From The Editor's Desk:" due to rising publication costs, the NAGC Bulletin will be published twice a year; notes on this bulletin's contents; Correction to Amelung family article in Bulletin 219, Anton Amelung, John F. Amelung, Carl Philipp Amelung, Johann Friedrich Magnus Amelung.
- Ken Depew, "A Letter from the President:" A review of the Mega Glass Convention which included our 27th Annual Seminar in Overland Park, Kansas - an "overflowing" response - an experience enjoyed by everyone; reduction of Bulletin issues per year; new club officers elected; 28th Annual Seminar planning underway; establishment of the Earl and JoAnne Autenreith Study Collection at the Museum of American Glass in Weston, West Virginia.
- Jane Shadel Spillman "New Marks on Old Glass;" New England Glass Company, Thomas Leighton; Boston and Sandwich Glass Company; Deming Jarves; Joseph Burdakin; Sinumbra lamp; Frederick William Woodhouse; sandblasted names added in the 1960s; engraved marks; Viola Abbott; Jenny Lind; acid etching; Bohemian glass; Bakewell; Henry Fillebrown. fake marks, many ills.
- Jeffrey S. Evans, "A Most Unexpected Pressed Glass Dish;" lacy butterfly dish; Boston and Sandwich Glass Company; lead glass; Ray pettern; McKee and Brother; ills.
- New Publication: The Golden Age of English Glass, 1650-1775 by Dwight Lanmon, Review by Ivor Noël Hume, OBE, FSA, ills.
- Mary Cheek Mills, "NAGC Inaugurates Distinguished Member Recognition Lectures and Scholarships," Dorothy-Lee Jones; National Early American Glass Club; Sylvia and Kenneth Lyon; Miriam Mucha, ills.
- Jane Shadel Spillman, "What is This? (Part II);" probably Czechoslovakian, 20th c., ills.
- Sneak Peek: National American Glass Club 2012 Seminar; Harrisonburg, Virginia; hi-lites and tours; planning information.
- Back Cover: Richard Sheaff; The George H. Gibson Stained Glass Works, Philadelphia; MacLean and Ritchie; windows; ill.
The previous issue of The Glass Club Bulletin, Spring 2011, Number 219 contained:
- Cover: Mug with chain decoration. U.S., proabably South Jersey, possibly Midwestern, about 1825-1850. H. 5 3/4 in. The Corning Museum of Glass (79.3.1204, gift of the Ruth Bryan Strauss Foundation).
- Jane Shadel Spillman, "From The Editor's Desk:" On Bulletin contributors Holly McCluskey, James Measell and the Oglebay Institute Museums in Wheeling, West Virginia; Tom Haunton's new book on the Clevenger Brothers; the seminar in Kansas City.
- Ken Depew, "A Letter from the President:" Corning Museum of Glass' 60th anniversary; the mega Convention in Kansas City, Kansas.
- Francis N. Allen, "A Note on Amelung Family History," based on information from the periodical Crown Jewels of the Wire," January 2011.
- Editor, "What Is This?" Background and questions raised on the mug pictured on this issue's cover.
- James Measell and Holly Hoover McCluskey, "Harry Northwood: A Brilliant Career in Glass," ills.
- New Publications: Last Links to the past: 20th Century South Jersey Glass, Volume 1 - Clevenger Brothers by Thomas C. Haunton, Ills.
- Edward Bush, "A Note about Frederick Carder", ill.
- "Mount Washington & Pairpoint Glass to be Featured at The Corning Museum of Glass." A special exhibition at The Corning Museum of Glass and the new publication
Mount Washington & Pairpoint Glass coming in May.
- Back Cover: Schedule for the 27th Annual NAGC Glass Seminar, July 7-9, 2011, Overland Park, Kansas.
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at the members' price of $4.00 each ($6.00 for non-members). A complete set of The
Glass Club Bulletin (1938 to the current issue) is $400.00. Send purchase
requests to Karen Petraglia, 18 Smithfield Lane, Bedford, NH 03110. Telephone:
508.429.5135, e-mail: education@glassclub.org
Our First - The Glass Club Bulletin, No. 1, January 1938
EDITORS OF THE GLASS CLUB BULLETIN
- Ada J. Danforth 1938 - 1943
- Emma D. King 1944 - 1955
- Ethel Mary Doane 1955 - 1958
- Joseph W. Limric 1958 - 1959
- Louise Draper 1959 - 1963
- Robert Bryden 1963 - 1967
- Dorothy-Lee Jones 1967 - 1973
- Fred Meyer 1973 - 1974
- Paul Hollister 1975 - 1985
- Arlene Palmer Schwind 1985 - 1990
- Eason Eige 1990 - 1993
- Bonnie Bledsoe-Fuchs 1994 - 1998
- Kyle Husfloen - 1999
- Jane Shadel Spillman 1999 -
Rt: Pressed cup plate by Pairpoint Glass Co. Sagamore, Massachusetts commemorating NEAGC 50th Anniversary 1983
Members also receive:
Glass Shards is NAGC's illustrated newsletter which is published four times a year. View the current issue of
View the Winter 2011-2012 Glass Shards, it contains the following articles:
- Kenneth Depew. "President's Letter," The Corning Museum of Glass 2011 Seminar; progress with the NAGC seminar for 2012 in Harrisonburg, Vairginia; new NAGC brochure published; Amelung Chapter provides a generous Memorial Fund donation in honor of Dorothy Camp and Barbara Lessig
- John Kohut "Steuben Glass LLC Closes," ill.
- Dan Dailey Exhibition at the Fuller Craft Museum, Brockton, Massachusetts, ill.
- Ancient Glass Treasures. at the Israel Museum, Jerusalem, ill
- The Museum of Glass, Tacoma, Washington - Studies in Style, ills.
- Glass Calendar
- Chrysler Museum Opens a Glass Studio, ills.
- Corning Celebrates American Studio Glass, ill.
- Research, Publication and Glass News; In Memoriam - Edward W. Kleppinger; Susan Warner - Appointed as Deputy Director/Curator, Museum of Glass, Tacoma, Washington, ill.
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NAGC Newsletter Editor:
1980 - 1982: John Gotjen, RI
Glass Shards Editors:
1985-1993: Sylvia Applebee Lyon, VA
1994 - present: Alice Walsh, MA
The National American Glass Club's membership directory is published annually solely for the use of the membership. It lists members' names and addresses, officers, local chapters, and, occasionally, a compilation of educational programs for NAGC members and chapters. The current Membership and Resource Directory 2007-2008, lists the NAGC Membership, forty-four Institutional Memberships and seventeen chapters nationwide. Members may list their collecting interests in the directory. Also included are the By-Laws of the National American Glass Club, Officers and Directors, Committee Chairs and Appointments, "Exploring the NAGC Web Site www.glassclub.org" and a list of supporting members. Also included are a number of illistrations depicting a variety of glass objects.
A sampling of the diversity of those interests includes American
Glass, European Glass, cut glass, depression glass, paperweights, Moser art
glass, sparkling lamps and other lighting, bottles and flasks, carnival glass,
commerative and historical glass, Tiffany, salts, Bohemian glass, opaline,
enameled glass, Gillinder, pressed pattern glass, Duncan, cordials and
decanters, ancient through Islamic, Heisey, 18th & 19th c. Anglo-Irish,
buttons, stained leaded glass, salt shakers, glass literature, cranberry glass,
glass dolphins, perfume bottles, vaseline glass, cup plates, children's pressed
glass, Sandwich glass, crackle glass, Dorflinger, Steuben - the list goes
on.....
In addition, members may elect to include their e-mail addresses in the
directory (those desiring to do so, should e-mail the NAGC Membership Chairperson).
The current Membership Directory was compiled and edited by Jim Davidson,
Maryland.
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