Rande Bly asked whether there were any disagreements on his identifications of ten various greens.

Debby Schultz of New Vernon, NJ asks:
” What about envy green ?”

Marshall Ketchum questions the Nile Green identification.

Rande has no idea what Nile Green really looks like except a guess. The only way that we may find out what Nile Green looks like is if Greg Merkel uses XRF to determine the formula and there is a formula for Nile Green in Carder’s notebooks.

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From Canada

Alan, This year marks 50 years of collecting everything for me. When I first started at 15, there were two wonderful antique dealers in Burlington, Ontario by the name of Arnold and Mabel Hill. I was in high school and I made about $1.85 a hour in my part time job. The Hill’s had the cologne bottle on the left which I greatly admired. They said that it was Verre de Soie glass made by Steuben from Corning but not marked because the hydroflouric acid used to make the mark was rationed in WW1. I didn’t know anything about Steuben, Mr. Carder or Corning. But, I bought it because it looked and felt great. Mrs. Hill was almost blind from complications of diabetes and she asked that I occasionally bring the bottle back for her to hold as she also treasured it. At some point in the 1980’s, we visited Corning and brought the bottle to show in to a gentleman (Mr. Rockwell) who had a shop on Main Street. Upon asking Mr. Rockwell if the bottle was Steuben, he replied that the best way to tell if something is authentic is if a dealer wants to buy it and he then made us a generous offer. The shorter cousin with the blue stopper arrived in the 1990’s for $35 from a Toronto mall show. It doesn’t seem that a lot of Carder’s work made it to Canada. I would also like to point out that my object photography has improved immensely? since the informative lecture at the last Symposium.
Best regards to all,
Jeremy Hayes,
Port Dover