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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The Glass Club Bulletin, a biannual puplication, 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.

• Cover: Detail of The Peace, one of Marc Chagall's famous stained-glass windows, located in the Chapel of the Cordeliers, Sarrebourg, France.
• Jane Spillman, From the President/Editor. Thanks to Ken Depew for his leadership - About the contents of the current issue - The NAGC-sponsored trip to France - Our program for the next seminar in Florida - A reminder that Amazon purchases linked from our home page on the web earns us funds.
• Paul Doros, "Stourbridge Glass Company and Tiffany Furnaces." Louis Heidt and Company - Heidt and Dannenhoffer - Boston Antique Glass Company - Streator Art Glass Company - Kokomo Opalescent Glass Company - Arthur J. Nash - Favrile - Corona - Dr. Parker C. McIlhiney - Jimmy Stewart, gaffer - Tiffany Girls - Daniel Cheser - Childe Hassam - Frederic Church - Gutzon Borglum - Edwin Blashfield - René de Quelin - Thomas Manderson - Laurelton Hall - Arthur V. Rose - Francis Thill glasshouse - Candace Wheeler - - old gaffer Thomas Manderson - Gillinder and Sons glasshouse - Boston and Sandwich Glass Company - John Hollingsworth - August "Auggie" LeFevre - Mt. Washington Glass Works - Arthur E. Saunders - Thomas Johnson - James A Stewart - gaffers' pay rates - George J. Cook - Maurice Kelly - Quezal Art Glass Company - Durand Art Glass Company - American Flint Glass Workers Union - Tiffany Furnaces Sick Benefits Society - James Grady - Joseph Cook - beer during breaks - The Glass Workers of Tiffany Furnaces club - John Page - Robert Hicks - "mask and civil ball" - cut glass - John Cook - Frederick George - baseball team - several ills. - extensive references.
• Ken Depew, "The History and Artistry of French Glass" - NAGC-sponsored trip - group photo - Notre Dame Cathedral - Sainte-Chapelle - Chartres - Malcom Miller - Verrerie d'Art - Versailles - glass flowers - Galerie-Musée Baccarat - Starwood Capital Group - Baccarat glassware - Anne Vanlatum - Musée de l'Ecole de Nancy - Gallé - Daum - Mme. Valois - Musée des Beaux-Arts de Nancy - Chagall window The tree of Life (La Paix) - St Louis glass factory - La Grand Place Crystal Museum - Musée Lalique - Reims - wine at Vin et Maree, ills.
• 2014 NAGC Seminar, May 8-10, Double Tree Hilton Hotel, Orlando, Florida - schedule

  The Glass Club Bulletin is indexed in the Reader's Guide to Periodical Literature. .

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  Back issues are available for purchase 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

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  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

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  Glass Shards is NAGC's illustrated newsletter which is published four times a year.

  The GLASS SHARDS Are Now On Line - Full Copy

  View the Spring 2014 Glass Shards - it contains the following articles:

  • The Corning Museum of Glass to Showcase Lalique Glass, Stanford and Elaine Steppa collection, Coty, Worth, D'Orsay, Roger & Gallet, Lucien Lelong. ills.
  • Jane Shadel Spillman, President's Letter. About our seminar in Orlando, Florida.
  • "Breaking Through: Moving 4Ward", About The Pittsburgh Glass Center's newest exhibition. Lisa Demagall, Laura Beth Konopinski, Anna Mlasowsky, Nadine Saylor, ills.
  • Glass Callendar, ills.
  • Explore the History of Glassmaking in Southern New Jersey at Wheaton Arts. NJ350. ill.
  • Museum of Glass Highlights Collection of Crystal Perfume Bottles and Bedroom Accessories from Bohemia, Tacoma Washington, Czech Republic, Katie Phelps, ill.

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  Also, complete back issues of Glass Shards: in .pdf format can be viewed by searching the Glass Shards INDEX - search for season AND year. Click HERE for a list of complete issues presently on line.

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  NAGC Newsletter Editor:
      1980 - 1982:       John Gotjen, RI
  

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  Glass Shards Editors:
      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 2010-2011, 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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