The last e-mail was a discussion of the rare Carder color of Persian Blue. Rande Bly has specialized in identifying crystal colors in the blue and green range. Many collectors are quite focused on the 140 color range of Mr. Carder. Others, care about decorations, shapes, table ware, Cintra, perfumes, acb’s and the list goes on and on. Oh, so many ways to collect and understand the genius of creativity from Mr. Carder. Something for everyone. Yes, we have a big tent to cover the technicians, historians, and on to pure decorative art lovers. Well, at any rate for today’s message let’s focus on the Persian Blue color way. Gerry Eggert of Rochester, NY tells us about Rande Bly and his interest in color.
This guy is a real expert on Carder colors and the various shadings of green and yellow. He knew Bob Rockwell when he had the Department Store. He ID’ed a color for Mr Rockwell then!–35 years ago!

June Riccio of Alamo, CA shares the attached picture of a piece of Persian Blue Glass with this lead in comment. Here is a pix of my representative piece of Persian Blue. It is Shape #6817, but the threading is such a pale yellow I attributed it to Citron Yellow rather than Bristol. Perhaps I was wrong. Some of the threading is missing, but it has a nice signature in it. Thanks so much for sharing the article with all of us.

Well the Persian Blue discussion has caused a lot of comment. Wilson Craigie of Richmond, VA asks about the attached:
I’d love to know if anyone can tell me which color this vase might
be?????

Dick Stark of Bethesda discussing Persian Blue says: colors can vary a shade or so from batch to batch as well as from the thickness of the vessel.

Marshall Ketchum who spends the winter in Florence, AZ and presumably will be rooting for the Az Cardinals this afternoon says:
The factory records are fairly explicit about Bristol Yellow being used for reeding with Persian Blue and that includes shape 6817. For reasons that are not clear most pieces of reeded Persian Blue have the reeding damaged more than one might expect. It may well have to do with the temperature of the glass when the reeding was applied. Persian Blue looks essentially the same as Celeste Blue and is probably not as rare as we might believe but has just been unidentified for a long period of time. More on this subject to come forth.