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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The Glass Club Bulletin, a biannual 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.

• Cover: Namur Hedwig Glass showing the abstract form. Collection of King Baudouin, Baudouin Foundation, Musée Provincial des Arts Anciens de Namurois, Trésor d' Oignies, Photo © Guy Focant.
• Jane Shadel Spillman, Letter From the Editor's Desk; Editor's Move to State College, Pennsylvania; This issue's content; On the Glass Mega-Convention in Indianapolis; Corning's Exhibition of Mold-blown glass by the entrepreneur Ennion and The show of Pyrex Glassware in the Rakow Library.
• Gay LeCleire Taylor, A Letter From the President; Issuance of the new NAGC Membership Directory; New members; Gail P. Bardhan's extensive glass research; Philip S. Smith, Treasurer of the NAGC Chapter Mt. Washington & Pairpoint Glass Society; Dianne C. Wright's return to the NAGC Board of Directors; the NAGC Nominating Committee; Our next seminar in Norfolk, Virgina.
• Francis N. Allen, The Hedwig Glasses: Thoughts On Design, Function, And Origins.
• Saint Hedwig
• Richard the Lionhearted
• The Corning Hedwig Glass, ill.
• The Amsterdam Hedwig Glass, ill.
• The Coburg Hedwig Glass, ill.
• The Hedwig Glasses, earliest known locations, map
• Wrocław Hedwig Glass, design rollout
• Hedwig Glasses, lion's manes
• Dianne Gregg, 20th-Century Finnish Glass (Part 2), ills.
• Alvar Aalto, Tapio Wirkkala, Timo Sarpeneva, Jaj Franck, Finnish Glass
• "Op" Glasses, Finnish glass
• Gunnar Cyren, Orrefors designer
• Riihimaki Lasi Oy (company)
• Kerttu Nurminen, Nuutajarvi, Notjso
• Mondo glasses, Finnish glass
• Oiva Toikka, Nuutajarvi, Notso - Bird Series; "Fauna" bowl - reissues sold by Crate & Barrel
• Nuutjarvi merger with Iittala, 1988; Iittala Nuutajarvi sold - Fiskars Corporation

  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 $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, 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 - 2015
    
  • Gail Bardhan 2015 -
    
  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.

  Past issues of Glass Shards Are Now On Line - Full Copy via the Glass Shards search page.

  View the Summer 2016 Glass Shards - it contains the following articles:

  • Highlights from the 2016 Seminar in Norfolk: Visiting with Carolyn and Richard Barry in nearby Suffolk, The DeWitt Wallace Museum of American Decorative Arts in Colonial Williamsburg and attendance of a lecture by Suzanne Hood, Curator of Ceramics and Glass, Demonstrations of glassworking with NAGC Second Vice President Art Reed at the Chrysler Museum's Glass Studio. Pictured is Suzanne Hood with Mary Mills during a "hand's-on" session in the Ceramics and Glass Vault of the DeWitt Clinton Wallace Museum. Also illustrated is Art Reed "at the chair."
  • President's Letter - Kenneth William Lyon (1922-2016).
  • 29th Annual Cape Cod Glass Show and Sale. .
  • Westchester Club, a NAGC chapter, Donates $200 to NAGC.
  • The Glass Fireworks of Dale Chihuly Light Up Children's Museum, Indianapolis, Indiana, Spectacular illustrations here .
  • Glass Calendar; Work by Suellen Fowler, Ludvig Lüfgren, Rick Ayotte and Margareta Hennix are illustrated.
  • 17th Annual Liberty Museum Glass Auction and Gala, Champagne cocktail reception in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, dinner and live and silent auctions. Dr. Arlene Silvers honored, Dale Chihuly's Cobalt Blue Basket illustrated.
  • David Huchthausen: A retrospective Selection. A Museum of Glass, Tacoma, Washington presentation. Huchthausen's Mirage is illustrated.
  • The Good, The Bad and The Ugly: New Works by Andrew Miller. Miller's work is illustrated.
  • Works by Charlotte Potter Showcased in Exhibition. Houston Center for Contemporary Craft, Houston, Texas. Potter's Armor is illustrated.

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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 Saville, Illinois
  

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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 Directory 2015-2016, lists:

  • Thirteen 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 - A sampling of the diversity of those interests 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. Also, members may elect to include their e-mail addresses in the directory (those desiring to do so, should e-mail the NAGC Membership Chairperson and Directory Editor Mr. John Kohut PA.)

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