Friday, March 02, 2012

Tommy Dreiling of Brooklyn poses this experience:

HI – I’ve seen some of the photos club members have sent in of ACBs that are currently being made abroad. Although some of them have somewhat of a Steuben look no one in the club would think for an instant that they were Steuben. I have an ACB I bought in the very early days of E-Bay from a dealer in Monaco who said she was dispersing an estate of an old ship’s caption and that he had traveled to New York City once of twice a year during the 1910s to the war. She had labeled the vase as cameo glass, not french, possibility Belgian or American. She NEVER said Steuben in the listing at all so I honestly don’t remember how came across it. It’s shape is 8413 and it’s Mirror Black over a color that look mint green, or a very very pale Jade Green cut in the Hunting pattern. If you look at all the photos available, the one on the club website I believe comes from The Chrysler Museum, and there is one pictured on page 116 in the Gardner book, in all the ones that I’ve seen, which is only 3, the pattern is significantly different on all of them. It seems to me that since Carder never planed on making a lot of them he let the pattern be varied on each one. I know I need to get some photos sent in but picking up the green has proved impossible. So I thought I start out by asking if anyone has seen a real attempt to reproduce a known Steuben pattern? Again, I bought this off of E-Bay from Monaco (yes the shipping was a fortune) in 1997. If anyone has any info about ACB reproduction I would be very interested to know. – Tommy Dreiling

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Another series of Steuben shades from Kathleen Herdell

Steuben 1

Steuben 2

Steuben 3

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