From Birmingham, Alabama’s Rande Bly
Charles Sweigart sent a picture of his Bohemian Salt depicting a shade of red he felt to be similar to Carders Cardinal Red that shaded to an orange hue. I will attach a photo of what I believe to be Whimsy Bowl that slightly does the same thing.

Copper red or copper ruby will take on that character due to the fact that it is a “heat sensitive” color and it’s final color is achieved by a combination of reheating process and the annealing ovens. I am under the impression Carder would have attempted to achieve pieces that have very little variation in color and would be uniformly red more like Alan’s vase.

David Goldstein in article #667 sent a photo of his Steuben Letter Opener which he referred to as “Copper Red”. I e-mailed him to inquire why he differentiated it from Selenium Red and this was his response. “Rande, I’m confident its not Selenium and the color looks like a copper-based red. It appears to vary in tone but that may be a function of the varying thickness of the piece.”

Since the perfume is in question as to it’s origin so far all we have is Whimsies and Alan’s vase. In my opinion we really have to come up with a few more examples before we call this a production color. I have a photo of two Steuben plates, one in Selenium and the other signed in Cardinal Red but a plate is a plate is a plate and I was really hoping we could come up with something a little more solid. I am thinking this color had to have shown up in a shown up in a sherbet and under plate or a 6030 vase. I can’t believe I have been on safari for this color for over 25 years and not bagged a trophy yet?