Thursday, November 03, 2011

A couple of responses to Rande Bly’s thoughts on Nile Green

First from Marshall Ketchum.

Alan

I won’t take it upon myself to comment on Rande’s conclusions other than to say that a lot of guess work on his part does not make his conclusions facts. I will comment, however, on his idea that there was a Steuben color that was actually called “Pale Green & Blue”. From looking at the factory records for stemware shape 5120 I see no reason to conclude that that was so. The common interpretation of the notations in the factory records would lead me to believe that the stemware was made in two colors, one part was Pale Green and the other part was blue. The factory records are full of color notations that are not complete enough to know what color was actually being described such as here where it was called just “blue”.

The “Pale Green & Blue” notation in the factory records is used for shapes 3162, 3165, 5112, 5120 and 5123. All of these shapes are somewhat similar in construction and decoration except for 3165 which is a pitcher and mug. The 5154 stemware set also uses a somewhat similar notation except that it says “Pale Green & C.B. stem” which make it clear that the stem was Celeste Blue while some other parts were Pale Green. If a shape could be found that used the “Pale Green & Blue” notation that was clearly made of just one piece of glass with no other decoration then there is a better chance that Rande’s idea might be correct. So far, that has not happened.

Marshall

Next, from Bob Bjork

Alan,

Refreshed and now the pic’s show.

Bob

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