First, part of the genius of Frederick Carder was as a glass chemist in creating 140 colors. Back in the early 1900s you couldn’t call and order a color from a local vendor like artists can today. You called the raw material maker and ordered a chemical and then formulated the various chemicals to create a color from scratch. Carder developed his colors ( and carefully guarded the formulas) largely based on color pallette largely derived from nature; Mr. Carder claimed that “it was possible to use all his colors together with no more fear of their clashing than the mulitcolored flowers in a garden.” Many colors are obvious, but then, many we’re uncertain of.

In aid of this process Ed Bush of Painted Post suggests:
Perhaps the best way to deal with identifying the known and unknown colors would be for the Carder Gallery at CMoG to have a permanent section displaying articles, say a goblet when available, labeled with the name of the color.

Next, Tom Dreiling of NYC asked about greens. Marshall Ketchum provides a response (and an attachment) and shows us some of the thought process in identifying colors.
Tom Dreiling wondered about Nile Green or windowglass green. I have attached a photo of a 6692 champagne that I am tentatively calling Nile Green. If you go to the factory records for shape 6692 you find that they were made in Marina (plain), Crystal engraved Hanover and Nile Green. There is some reasonable chance that this then is Nile Green. It is not a sure thing since the existing records aren’t complete and a goblet could have been made in some other color that missed being listed. I have not seen a piece that I would call windowglass green. I would expect a glass with that name to be a more subtle color perhaps similar to the subtlety of Moonlight.

Finally, on the administrative side. I’m learning that for unknown reasons sometimes you receive one e-mail, and realize from its contents you didn’t receive the prior one. At the suggestion of Club Vice-President, Scott Hansen, we’ll start numbering our e-mails. That way if you are missing a number you can write in and ask for it to be resent.

What’s next? Well, Rande Bly wrote and said: When the discussion over the blues is done I am ready to unveil Canary Yellow for the first time. I have two pieces right now signed