GREEN #5
Today is a big day for me. I have finally found a piece of the mythical Transparent Colored Crystal Lined Calcite! After 40 years of hunting I have found a Carder Steuben Green #5 lined Calcite Bowl shape 2851.

In the Gazelle Gazette #726 September of 2009 I wrote of Calcite pieces that were lined with colored crystal. Forty years ago I had heard the rumor of these pieces.

In 2009 I was ready to dismiss it as a “fish story” for lack of an example. Today I am here to tell you they are real! Ericson discusses this type of glass on page 13 of his book one. This is just another example of an Erickson “baby that was thrown out with the bath water”.

It is beautiful. This is a Carder Steuben 2851 bowl in Calcite lined with Green #5. Some know this green as “overlay green”. This color over the white at first looks a little like Green Jade. It is not.

I will include pictures to compare with Ivrene and Green Jade. I know some of you have seen this bowl before misidentified as Green Jade lined Calcite.

Rande Bly, Birmingham, Alabama

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MORE FROM JOANN

This is HGM Steuben No 44. The label says that it is a Steuben 11 1/4″ vase. It is silver mounted; it is silver mounted, etched opaline iridescent; and, is marked on underside 23630.

Joann Tortarolo

This may be either shape 1210 or 2142. It is difficult from the drawing to tell which it might be. It is in Verre de Soie and the silver may have been made and applied by Gorham.

Marshall Ketchum

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2013 Carder Steuben Club annual Symposium will be held at The Corning Museum of Glass in Corning, NY from September 19-21, 2013. The festivities will begin with Frederick Carder’s 150th birthday celebration on the evening of September 18, 2013.