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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, Summer 2010, Number 217 contains:
- Cover: Fish Trophy, made from pressed pickle dish, reverse-painted, mounted and framed. Atterbury and Company, Pittsburgh, PA, about 1872-1885. H. 47.4 cm. The artist who painted and framed the pickle dish is anonymous. The Corning Museum of Glass (94.4.121)
- Jane Shadel Spillman "From The Editor's Desk." Dean Six's successful museum fund-raiser;
New Bedford Museum of Glass collection partly on view; Trip to England and our successful seminars in conjunction with the Westchester Glass Club and the Mt. Washington/Pairpoint collectors; The Corning Glassfest on Memorial Day weekend; Research on John Frederick Amelung; Visit to the Virginia Museum of Fine Arts and the Tiffany collection.
- Ken Depew, "A Letter from the President." The spring NAGC seminars; The NAGC trip to England plus a meeting with The Glass Circle; The next NAGC seminar will be in Kansas City, Kansas, July 2011; Seminar Laison is Ellen O'Brien; Davis Watts the author; preparation of the NAGC Recognition Program underway.
- Sandra D. Palmer and Lawrence Jessen, Notes on Our Search for the New Bremen Engraver, ills.
- Kenneth C. Depew, A Musical Interlude. The glass Grand Harmonicon, ills.
- Howard Lockwood, The Rule of Forty. Italian glass and collecting strategies, ills.
- "On The Manufacture of Glass" a brief article from The American Museum, August, 1789
- Book Review: A History of Glassmaking in London and its Development on the Thames South Bank by David C. Watts, ills.
- Book Review: Oceans Odyssey: Deep-Sea Shipwrecks in the English Channel, Straits of Gibraltar & Atlantic Ocean Edited by Greg Stemm and Sean Kinglsey, ills.
- Review: Tiffany Glass: A Passion for Colour, Exhibition created by Musée des Beaux Arts de Montreal and shown at Musée du Luxembourg, Paris and The Virginia Museum of Fine Arts in Richmond, Virginia - Catalog, ills.
- "It's A Mega Event - And You're Invited" About the NAGC Seminar in Kansas City, Kansas, July, 2011.
The previous issue of The Glass Club Bulletin, Spring 2010, Number 216 contained:
- Cover: View of the American Flint Glass Works, South Boston, Gleason's Pictorial Drawing Room Companion,. April 23, 1853.
- Ken Depew, A Letter From The President: Schadenfreude , Mary Cheek Mills and the Nominating Committee, Membership Chair Jim Davidson's efforts to e-mail issues of Glass Shards to members, President DePew meeting with Dan West, President of the American Cut Glass Association and David Goldstein, President of The Carder Steuben Club, Bill Thomas and Gay Taylor finalizing the NAGC Seminar in Old Greenwich, Connecticut
- Editor's Desk, Jane Shadel Spillman: About our current issue, Glassmaking thrives Offshore but declines in the US, Attendance at a glass history meeting in Europe where she learned Holmgaaard, the Danish Royal factory, has closed, Hadelands, (Norway) and Val St. Lambert (Belgium) teetering on edge. Several Swedish glasshouses have closed while Waterford (Ireland) is in receivership but still being made on the Continent. Royal Brierley Crystal and Thomas Webb & Sons as well as others in England are also gone, Dean Six reports that the West Virginia Museum of Glass has raised neary 90% of its goal.
- John Hansell, A Cameo Incrusted Decanter: A Search for its Maker, ills.
- Jane Shadel Spillman, Ceramics Copied from American Glass: A 19th-Century Phenomonon, ills.
- Lon D. Hodge, Base Pattern Analysis of Double-Vine Bellflower Provides Additional Evidence for a Distinctive M'Kee and Brothers' Design Style, ills.
- Book Review, The Glass Industry in South Boston by Joan E. Kaiser, ills.
- An Interesting Comparison - pieces manufactured by Cristalleries de Baccarat "Jets d'Eau" (1925) and possible influence on Frederick Carder's "Fountain", ills.
The Glass Club Bulletin is indexed in the Reader's Guide to
Periodical Literature and an index is also published separately by NAGC with updates aperiodically in the Membership Directory.
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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 -
Members also receive Glass Shards
Glass Shards is NAGC's illustrated newsletter which is published four times a year Check out this sample of The Glass Shards .
The current issue, Summer 2010, contains the following articles:
- Luke Jerram: Infectious Beauty. At the Heller Gallery, New York, NY, ills., Summer 2010
- President's Letter, Ken Depew. About or Seminars at Greenwich, Connecticut and London, England. ills., Summer 2010
- Glass Callendar, Summer 2010
- The Art of Hans Godo Fräbel at Glorious Glass in the Garden: The Art of Hans Godo Fräbel at Lewis Ginter Botanical Garden now through January 10, 2011. 1800 Lakeside Ave., Richmond, VA. ill., Summer 2010
- Carnival Glass Collection Donated to Redlands Glass Museum by Plymouth Village resident Doris B. Spoor, ill., Summer 2010
- Mini review: Diane G. Lytwyn, Silvered Mercury Glass - Identification and Values , ill., Summer 2010
- Findlay Antique Bottle Club sponsors an antique bottle show in August, 2010 in Ohio, ill., Summer 2010
- Drawings for American Stained Glass, at the Rakow Research Library at the Corning Museum of Glass, through Decembr 31, 2010, ill., Summer 2010
- Morgan Contemporary Glass Gallery Xpertease, Morgan Contemporary Glass Gallery, 5833 Ellsworth Ave, Pittsburgh PA.ill., Summer 2010
- Sandwich Glass Museum Exhibit The Artistry of Sayuri Kingsbury. 129 Main st. Sandwich MA, ill. Summer 2010
- New Release: Doris Yeske and Lyle Fokken, Colors and Patterns of Depression Era Glassware ., ill., Summer 2010
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1980 - 1982: John Gotjen, RI
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1985-1993: Sylvia Applebee Lyon, VA
1994 - present: Alice Walsh, MA
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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 Elissa Goldstein,
New Jersey.
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