THE BEGINNING OF RESPONSES

To Frank Creech:

In a non-binding straw poll the members at last year’s meeting voted in favor of this. The Board has also voted in favor of it.

Now that Steuben is no longer being made Modern is no longer a contemporary product. Carder himself designed some of the early pieces.

The antagonism toward Carder Steuben was largely from the Houghtons, going back to the time of the management change. The elder Mrs. Houghton passed several year ago and her passing may have sounded the death knell for Steuben. Some of her children may not care for Carder and some of our members may not care for Modern, but we have many members who collect both. I know that one of our Symposium speakers does, and MJ Madigan, another of our speakers, is the Gardner of Modern.

I was talking with a Modern collector (over 600 pieces) the other day and he is interested in joining the Club and assisting if we add Modern. I doubt if he is the only such collector.

I can recall when the Mount Washington Glass Club rejected the idea of expanding to include all Victorian Glass. The Wavecrest collectors formed a separate club which is thriving and the MW club is dying.

CMoG doesn’t display much Modern Steuben either. In that sense, they show more Carder than Modern.

Regards,

David Goldstein, Naples, FL

FROM THE MAGAZINE OF THE WEST VIRGINIA MUSEUM OF AMERICAN GLASS

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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.

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