Chair, Bonnie Salzman, Announces This Year’s Symposium

Symposium Program is Announced

The Carder Steuben Club proudly announces its 16th Annual Carder Steuben Symposium, co-hosted by The Corning Museum of Glass. This year the Symposium will be held on September 15 – 17, 2015 in Corning, New York.

The program, registration form, hotel accommodations, and Club auction information can all be found by clicking here .

Program and registration materials will be mailed to all Club members in late July.

Registration is due by September 6.

Traveling to Corning

We frequently get requests about traveling to Corning by some form of transportation other than car.

For Bus Service: Go to www.coachusa.com/shortline. There is a bus from Port Authority NYC that comes to Corning and arrives at 3:50 pm at the bus station right next to the Radisson. You will change buses once, in Binghamton. Other than that change, its almost direct. It leaves NYC around 10 am.

For Air Service: The closest airport is the Corning/Elmira airport (ELM) and Philadelphia and Detroit are gateway cities to Corning using American and Delta. Allegiant also flies to Corning from Florida. The last option would be to fly to Buffalo, Syracuse, Binghamton or Rochester and drive the rest of the way.

There is no train service.

No matter how you get there, it will be worth your time and effort!

Sherbets

David Chadwick-Brown responds to Jim Sutterfield on sherbet casings.

I appreciate Jim’s comments on sherbets, and must admit that when it comes to casings, I have never known which ‘white’ was used. I do know that calcite is the white found on aurenes, and alabaster is identified as the white applied to jades (as I mentioned in the case – if you’ll pardon the pun – of the grotesque, in Dimitroff, p.179). I thus jumped to the conclusion that alabaster was the choice of material for casing other jades, though recognizing that the stems of sherbets are said to be ‘flint white.’ It may well be that ‘flint white’ is the substance used in the casing on the blue jade and under plate, in my cabinet, shown in the Gazette, and thus also the substance used for stem and foot. And if stem and foot are flint, then it would seem to follow, Q.E.D., that the casing would also be flint, which confirms Jim’s assumption.

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Jim Sutterfield responds to the question of a Rose du Barry sherbet

Interesting photo which is better than a word description but less than seeing the real thing. My first reaction is Rosaline which as you know can be very variable in color hue. Both Jade Green and Rosaline differ greatly in color perhaps from batch errors,density separation in the pot or perhaps volitation of colorants.. The stem looks very white in the photo which would be My first check.If the stem appears to not be alabaster, then I would become much more interested.

I only know of 3 pinks in Carder’s products. Rosaline was the volume, Coral was trim and Rose du Barry is rare. I have never seen a sherbet in Rose du Barry but with Carder never say it does’t exist. You should be aware that not all in Ericson is consistent with today’s identifications.