HGM STEUBEN NO. 49

Alan,

I have seen the #2851 bowl on display at the Redlands museum. It is amethyst, not wisteria. We should be so lucky!

Michael Krumme, Los Angeles

Optic Ribbed Amethyst Bowl

Shape #2851

10 inch diameter

HISTORICAL GLASS MUSEUM NO. 50 & NO. 51

This is HGM Steuben No 50. The label says this is a Steuben 9″ vase in Bristol yellow with rectangular body. There is a second vase that looks almost identical to it but was donated by someone else. This vase is shown in HGM Steuben No 51.

Joann Tortarolo

HGM 51 on Left, #50 on Right

Marshall Ketchum’s comments:

This may be Steuben shape 6199 in Bristol Yellow. You need to be careful with this shape because others manufacturered. This shape was made with no pontil mark and the top edge is ground. One way to tell a Steuben piece from someone else is the grinding on the top edge. Most other manufacturers left the top edge rough ground while Steuben’s while not really polished was left with a finer surface.

Difficult to tell for sure what the one on the left is more like I expect to see in a Steuben 6199.

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.

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