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Left: Pressed dish, 3 7/8 in. dia. 1 in. deep, Heisey Glass Co. "SATURN OPTIC", 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 March 17, 2022
The Glass Club Bulletin, a semi-annual publication, is given to the membership which includes more than thirty 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, Winter 2021, Number 239, contains:
- Cover: Pair of tall Hock wine glasses. Red glass cased over colorless glass, cut in J.S. O'Connor's Napoleon pattern. J.S.O'Connor, Hawley, Pennsylvania, about 1895.
- A Letter from the Editor
- Lawrence Jessen, And A Pig On The Bottom! Discovering The Luther Seargeant Tumbler
- James Measell, Orphan Labor In The Glass Industry
- James Asselstine and Kurt Reed, John S. O'Connor: Dorflinger's Design Genius
- Gail Bardhan, What Is A Wager Cup?
The previous issue of The Glass Club Bulletin, Autumn 2020, Number 238, contained:
- Cover: Ruba Rombic liquor set in Jungle Green, designed by Reuben Haley, made by Consolidated Lamp and Glass Co., Coraopolis, Pa., c. 1930. Haley desiged an entire marketing campaign for the launch of Ruba Rombic at the Pittsburgh Show in 1928, demonstrating the importance of industrial designers to both manufacturing and marketing (Heinz History Center, Hillman Foundation Funds. Photograph by Matt Bulvony). 238+ 2021
- Gail Bardhan, "From The Edior's desk." About the current issue, Losses to the Glass World: Jane Shadel Spillman and Dr Robert Brill. 238+ 2021
- Ian Simmonds, "The 'Cut Glass Pedlars' and Merchants of Hartford." 238+ 2021 ills.
- Anne Madarasz, "The 'Pittsburgh Show': America's Marketplace for Glass Tableware." 238+2021, ills.
- Morgan Pruden, "A Tiffany Mosaic Mystery." 238+ 2021, ills
Back issues are available for purchase at $7.00 each. A complete set of The
Glass Club Bulletin (1938 to the current issue) is $400.00. Send purchase
requests to Bill Thomas, 3708 Mill Road, Abdingdon, MD 21009. Telephone:
410.538.5558
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 - 2015
- Gail Bardhan 2015 -
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 Spring 2022 Glass Shards contains the following articles:
- Chapter News Westchester Glass Club, Mt. Washington Pairpoint Glass, Dr. Fuchshuber, Ft. Worth Museum of Glass, Crown Milano, Royal Flemish, Queen's Design (ill.), Founders Chapter Field Trip, Holy Annunciation Orthodox Church, (ills.) Spring, 2022
- President's Letter, Building the Club, Replacement of officers and directors next year, Spring 2022
- James Garrison Stradling III (1931-2021), Early American glass and ceramics from the 1979s, (ill.), Spring 2022
- 2022 is the International Year of Glass, United Nations General Assembly, International Commission on Glass (ICG), Community of Glass Associations (CGA), ICOM Glass, (ill.), Spring 2022
- Boundless Curiosity Inspired by Glass Supporter, Robert M. Minkoff, The Museum of Glass, Tacoma, WA (ill.), Spring 2022
- Exciting Find in Ancient Glass, Nijmegen, Netherlands excavation (ill.), Spring 2022
- Pure Effects in Sandwich exhibition, Wayne Strattman, (ill.), Spring 2022
- New Book and Exhibit Feature Indigenous Glass Art, 33 indigenous artists, Dale Chihuly, Museum of Indian Arts, Santa Fe, New Mexico, (ill.), Spring 2022
- Fernweh at the Glasmuseum Lette, Coesfeld, Germany (ill.), Spring 2022
- Glass Calendar, Bergstrom Museum of Glass, Jeffery S. Evans Auctions, The Stretch Glass Society, Brilliant Glass Weekend, Wheaton Arts, Sandwich Glass Museum, Early American Pattern Glass Society, Heisey Collectors of America, (ills.) Spring 2022
- Smithsonian Exhibit, Sargent Whistler & Venetian Glass, Sheldon Barr, Diana Jocelyn Greenwold, Stephanie Mayer Heydt, Cawford Alexander Mann III. (ill.), Spring 2022
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Publications of the National American Glass Club such as Newsletter,Glass Shards, The Glass Club Bulletin plus other NAGC publications can be searched in a single data base on our website (search) for keywords, graphics and document covers
Another search option for The Glass Club Bulletin (and other published glass topics) is The Corning Museum of Glass - Rakow Research Library literature search at RAKOW SEARCH
Also, complete back issues of Glass Shards: in .pdf format may also be viewed.
NAGC Newsletter Editor:
1980 - 1982: John Gotjen, RI
Glass Shards Editors:
1985-1993: Sylvia Applebee Lyon, VA
1994 - present: Alice Saville, Illinois
Glass Club Bulletin> and Glass Shards: Designer - Jaci Saunders, Corning, NY
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 Directory 2017-2018, lists:
- Eleven chapters nationwide.
- By-Laws of the National American Glass Club
- Officers and Directors, Committee Chairs and Appointments
- About The NAGC Web Site
- Membership Dues
- Donors
- Institutuional Memberships
- The General Membership Listing - Includes a sampling of the diversity of member's interests which includes American
Glass, European Glass, cut glass, depression glass, paperweights, Moser art
glass, sparking 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.
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