Tuesday, December 13, 2011

Lisa Ackerman of Orange, California sends this piece of information along.

Hi Alan,

Perhaps we might want to remind folks that CMOG is offering an additional 10% off purchases for Members only from Dec. 1-31st. There’s some neat stuff on the website! For delivery by Christmas I think we have to order by the 14th.

http://glassmarket.cmog.org/index.htm

Next, Scott Hansen of Briarcliff Manor, New York forwards this along from The New Bedford Museum of Glass

The New Bedford Museum of Glass

American Historical Glass Display Returns to

New Bedford City Hall!

The New Bedford Museum of Glass has reinstalled its extensive display of American historical glass at New Bedford City Hall after a two month hiatus. The exhibit was temporarily closed during the City’s lead paint abatement program earlier this year. More than 500 examples of glass relating to American political history, the largest public display of its kind in the country, are now back on view along the ground floor corridors of the City Hall building.

Exhibit Preview:

Among the highlights are four exquisitely molded portrait plates depicting the presidential and vice presidential candidates of the 1884 election. Grover Cleveland and his running mate Thomas A. Hendricks proved victorious, despite a nation-wide scandal alleging that Cleveland had an illegitimate son.

Another fascinating piece is a Midwestern tray depicting the likeness of Nellie Bly, the pen name used by investigative reporter Elizabeth Cochrane. In 188 9, Cochrane sought to beat the fictitious travel record described by author Jules Verne in his 1873 novel “Around the World in 80 Days.” Cochrane departed from New York City on November 14, 1889, traveled by boat to England and then across the Mediterranean to Egypt. From there she proceeded to Singapore, China, Japan and San Francisco, sending periodic travel dispatches back to her newspaper, and finally reached New York by train from the West Coast to complete her trip in exactly 72 days, six hours and eleven minutes.

A stark contrast to the Nellie Bly tray is presented by the New Bedford glass vase depicting a severe looking woman, skirt hiked about her knees, who strides forward carrying an American Flag. The vase was intended as an unflattering allusion to the woman’s suffrage movement of the 1880s. The movement gained momentum in the late 19th century but did not achieve its goal of securing women the right to vote in national elections until 1920, when Congress passed the 19th Amendment to the Constitution.

About the Glass:

Much of the historical glass on view comes from a 1,500 piece collection donated to the glass museum by the late Mrs. Warren P. Tingley of Florida. It took Mrs. Tingley more than three decades to assemble the collection, which is housed at City Hall in display cases donated by local glass authorities William Pitt and the late Louis O. St. Aubin, Jr.

Visit New Bedford

City Hall

8 AM – 4 PM

Monday to Friday
133 William St.
New Bedford, MA

Contact the New Bedford Museum of Glass:

508 – 984 – 1666

61 Wamsutta St.

New Bedford, MA 02740

www.nbmog.org

Quick Reminder:

Glass Armonica Holiday Concert

Sunday December 18

3 – 4 PM

The New Bedford Museumn of Glass

61 Wamsutta St.

FREE to Members

$5 General Public

www.cardersteubenclub.org

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2012 Carder Steuben Club annual Symposium will be held at The Corning Museum of Glass in Corning, NY from September 20-22, 2012.