Thursday, April 21, 2011

I recently was discussing with Dick Stark, an English Cameo, Tiffany and sometimes Carder collector, the fact that I understand Sotheby’s and Skinner’s no longer are providing much auction space for art glass. Dick responded.

it’s been that way for some time….i’m certain they will auction fine vessels as well and other exceptional objects…

i think there is more interest in carder now than almost any other time…

Dick’s last sentenced caused me to write back and ask his opinion on growing interest in Carder, which he attributes to current research.

i’ve been collecting for a long time and have witnessed the evolution of collecting art glass and the emerging trends as well as the insight into the recognition of identifying the more important objects. victorian was collected prior to the emergence of tiffany, which incidentally went into cycles. iridescent objects made by companies other than tiffany were considered secondary and only the choicer objects were reverred. one must also be mindfull of the paucity of literature as well. , in recent times there has been a burgeoning of books and many i’ve never seen. with that, revi and then gardner people began to assemble the carder items such as acb’s, cluthra, rosaline etc etc etc which was largely ignored in the early days of collecting. no one analyzed the varieties and shades of color as you are now doing. they only treasured the lovely rare items which seldom surfaced…. reds, tyrian, dec greens etc.

Finally, a few days ago we had the question asked about identifying an engraved plate. Only one response—from Gerry Eggert. Gerry may be onto something. He suggests the engraving may be by Steuben master engraver, Max Ehrlacher of Campbell, New York (Corning)

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