Modified Formula?

Marshall Ketchum takes issue with Rande Bly over Mousselene:
In several of his latest emails Rande Bly is attempting to convince us that Frederick Carder modified the formula for a glass when he made Mousselene, i.e. optic ribbed, pieces. When I first heard of this I thought it was preposterous. The thought that Carder would modify the formula for 800 lb of glass or 1000 lb of glass just to make pieces with optic ribs made no sense to me. When I was in Corning attending the Symposium I asked one of our Carder glass authorities what he thought of the idea and he said it was nonsense or words to that effect. I won’t name him. Many can guess who I mean and he is free to enter the discussions as he sees fit.

Rande is also assuming the responsibility of defining what the 1932 catalog calls a “ripple” finish for vase shape 2909. Rande doesn’t know what “ripple” means. He is just making a guess. I don’t know what “ripple” means but I am not going to publish a guess just so that I can see my name in print and distribute a lot of, probably, false information. The existing factory records, not the 1932 catalog, use the term “ripple” for only a couple of shapes. They also use the term “stripple” for several shapes and it is unclear how “ripple” and “stripple” are the same or different. Both are undefined.

I think that Frederick Carder took no credit for what is found in the 1932 catalog