Other Resources

from Jeremy Hayes of Port Dover, Canada

Alan, A suggestion for the gentleman with the yellow pitcher. There is a good site (www.loetz and glass.com). It is run by Alfredo Villanueva-Collado. His email is alfavil@aol.com. He has answered me several times on his thoughts on photos that I have sent him.

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Some tongue in cheek comments from John Styler of Prospect Heights, IL

Wow, I can enter the yellow fray with my Peking Yellow bowls

“Good Books Don’t Cost; They Pay”

Michael Krumme of Los Angeles published the following in the Elegant Glass Club newsletter

As Nora Koch, late editor of the Depression Glass DAZE newspaper, used to say, “Good books don’t cost; they pay.” There are often situations when we are out and about and have to make a decision. We can’t have ALL of our reference books with us, so we sometimes have to take a calculated chance.

But woe betide he or she who buys something and has the chance to confirm in reference sources first (before clicking “But It Now” or what have you), but doesn’t.

I don’t fault all sellers for making some kind of statement about a piece when they are not sure. They have to start somewhere. Not everyone is a glass specialist. But I have a particular contempt for those who assume that their many years of experience in antiques gives them the right to say, “I know ______ when I see it, and this piece is ______.”

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Ed. An extensive Carder Steuben bibliography can be found on the Carder Steuben Club website