Tommy Dreiling asked about the orange color often seen in Cintra applications. Marshall Ketchum responds.

If Tommy Dreiling looks closely at Orange Cintra I think he will find that the glass isn’t really orange. The glass powder picked up from the marver is a mixture of yellow and red which turns out to give an overall orange color.

Marshall

Rande Bly also responds

Tommy Dreiling has asked about the color orange used at Steuben. About 30 years ago I had a piece of transparent orange rimmed and decorated in cobalt blue. It was a very interesting shade of color like Smoke and Orange mixed together. I saved it for years in hopes I would find another piece to confirm it was Steuben. Apparently it was not Steuben because nothing else like it ever showed up. Marshall and I have discussed the blue and orange piece in he line drawings for the last 8 years and have come to the conclusion that Steuben did not make orange transparent colored crystal for production and that the line drawing represents their Cintra glass. We believe he made his own orange for this purpose.

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Orange Cintra

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