The saying “Born with a silver spoon in their mouth” has nothing to do with being rich. The saying came as a statement of health. This is why flatware was sterling or coin silver(.900) and baby rattles and teething rings were made out of sterling. It keeps you healthy.

I could turn the Steuben 7218 silver deposit piece into a Sterling overlay piece in two days! If one of the handles of the 1308 overlay piece was worn badly I could repair it in one day with no collateral damage or danger to the piece!

Rande Bly the science guy

Here is my colloidal silver generator I have made. Five 9volt batteries wired in parallel a silver coin wires and clips. Properly suspended in a glass of water it will electroplate the silver from one half of a silver coin to the other half also leaving pure silver suspended in the water solution. It is 100% safe to drink. The solution in 3000 parts per million will kill viruses. Even the aids virus. We drink it and do not get sick with colds or flu. I could restore missing silver overnight to pieces of glass with this very same device! All undetectable.

HGM #39 FOR IDENTIFICATION

This is HGM Steuben No 39. The label says that it is a Steuben 11″ vase. The color is iridescent and the pattern is hour glass form.

Joann Tortarolo

I did a “quick and dirty” search of the CSC shape index, using the search terms form: vase and color: verre de soie, and came up with 81 results. After browsing them, I did not find this exact shape as HGM #39 (in verre de soie), but the number 2894 vase is similar. The 2894 vase looks like the same basic shape as HGM #39, but tooled in such a way as to create bulb shapes near the top. (The 2894 also has applied surface decorations, which the HGM vase does not have, but I disregarded those for comparison purposes. I presume that the applied decoration is not what makes it a #2894, but the overall shaping.)

Michael Krumme, Los Angeles

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just make sure it is not the green Aqua Marine, Rande Bly

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This is probably shape 2551 in Verre de Soie. This is a very generic shape which makes positive identification difficult.

Marshall Ketchum

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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