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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 20, 2025
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 2024/2025, Number 244, contains
- COVER: Salt cellar. Non-lead blue glass. Possibly United States, 1764-1800. Two-piece construction. Blown in a mold, with seven rows of 13 nodules. Cup-shaped bowl constricted above a solid bulbous lower section on a short drawn stem and basal knop. Applied slightly conical foot. Unpolished punty scar. OH: 3 3/16 Inches. Private collection. Photo by Lawrence Jessen.
- Lawrence Jessen, "An Engraved Amelung Flask Fragment From A Central Maryland Privy."
- Gail Bardhan and Jill Thomas-Clark: "Decorative Or Functional Glass In The Movies."
- Gail Bardhan, From the Editor's Desk. About the contents of this issue.
The previous issue of The Glass Club Bulletin, Spring 2024, Number 243, contained:
- COVER: An impressive green stretch glass pitcher, tumblers and lemon server vreate an inytriguing set up for entertaining at home.
LI> Gail Bardhan, From The Editor's Desk, About the authors in the current issue, Our 90th birthday and a correction to our last issue, p.3
- Lawrence Jessen, "Samuel Cook's Whiskey Jug: Marking the Sesquicentennial of a Thoughtful Gift, ills. p.4.
- Cal Hackeman, "American Stretch Glass and Home Entertaining and Decorating in the 1920s and 2020ss, ills. p.9
- Anne P. Madarasz, "Reflecting on the Past: National American Glass Club at 90, ills, p.17
- Gail Bardhan, NOTE. Article omission in previous issue, Bulletin 242, by Ian Simmonds is published re. "ALAS! THE BRITTLE CLAY!" p. 19
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 Winter 2024 Glass Shards contains the following articles:
- Chapter News, Cape Cod, Founders, ills. Winter 2024
- Beaded Tapestries, Lowe Art Museum, Coral Gables, Florida ill. Winter 2024
- The Creative Influence of Louis Comfort Tiffany
Explored in New Josh Simpson Exhibition, ill. Winter 2024
- Bringing Nature into the Art of Glass, Museum of Glass, Tacoma, WA ill. Winter 2024
- President's Letter Winter, Oglebay Museum in Wheeling, West
Virginia, Winter 2024
- 4,000 Years of Artistic Innovations in Glass, New Orleans Museum of Art, ill. Winter 2024
- A Celebration of All Forms of Glassmaking, ill. Winter 2024
- Jeffrey Evans Auctions, ills, Winter 2024
- Goblet Making Demonstrations and Sale, ills. Winter 2024
- Glass Calendar, ills. Lino Tagliapietra, Glass Chair, Perfume Bottle, Wintern 2024
- New Acquisitions on View, ill, Winter 2024
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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,
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glass, Sandwich glass, crackle glass, Dorflinger, Steuben - the list goes
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