Symposium

September 15-17 in Corning, NY

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Some of My Favorite Things

“I simply remember my favorite things, and then I don’t feel so bad.” Last year’s panel program of “Some of Our Favorite Things” was such a hit, we thought that a reprise was in order. This year, members Karen and Cy Beeman, John Stranges, Scott Hansen, Elizabeth and Frank Creech, Mark Salzman and Dean Powlus will share with us a few of their favorite Carder Steuben pieces. You never know, some of their favorite things must just become some of your favorite things. Come and find out at the Carder Steuben Symposium, September 15 – 17.

Glass on Display

from David Chadwick-Brown

The posy vase on the lower shelf. The migration of red, from what seems to be documented rouge flambe to transparent red on the bottom of the posy vase, does not show well here. As I’ve said before, Frank Blake recalled having seen it in Carder’s home, and he agreed it was rouge flambe. Greg Merkel’s analysis compared it with a known rouge flambe vase in CMoG holdings, and it seems to confirm a close match. To quote Dr. Merkel: “Both the low-energy and high-energy spectra of this vase are very similar to those of a CMoG Rouge Flambe vase, number 69.4.232, on display in the Carder Gallery at The Corning Museum of Glass. The composition of that vase is similar to the recipes for ‘SR20’ and ‘Cardinal Red #19,’ which are simple soda zinc glasses with cadmium, selenium, and sulfur.”

The blue lens on the lower shelf, and clear one above, impressed: OPTICAL CORNING U S PAT 10 OCT 1905 MADE IN U.S.A., and the oval elevator direction marker, impressed CORNING IVRENE MADE IN U.S.A., are of Corning company origin, except the lens may very well be ashtray #7713, page 138, in Gardner’s line drawings. Two paperweights on the bottom are ‘lunchbox specials,’ and one was obtained from Roy Denson, and from the hand of his father, a Corning glass blower. (Roy’s most creative production of jewelry re-purposed from broken Carder items lives on in the pendants, stick-pins, cufflinks, earrings, etc., that continue to have a market on eBay listings amidst our daily perusals for Steuben.)

The Roycroft copper leaves holding the green Steuben seems to have been the favorite, with topaz a much rarer version. Has anyone seen these in another color? Also present, the green crackle and the red cintra with green rim. Also, the Tyrian vase.

Symposium Notes

Each year the Club asks attendees of the Symposium to provide suggestions for future programs. Over the last several years, we have received many requests for someone to talk about what options a collector has when the time comes to dispose of it. Sam Cottone, of Cottone Auctions in Geneseo, New York, has agreed to come and discuss how an auction house may help find a solution to this problem. Sam will also touch on inventory and appraisal as well. Sam has experience as an antiques dealer and furniture restorer, and for the past 30 years has been an antiques auctioneer and appraiser. We look forward to hearing Sam’s comments on “Selling at Auction in Today’s Marketplace” at the Carder Steuben Symposium, September 15 – 17.