Current Events

From Monday’s edition of the Wall Street Journal, an article captioned “Here’s an Investment That Should Be Handed With Care” page R6. The lead in reads “…glass….in recent years …has become something more: an established art form and an attractive–and affordable–investment.”

(note–the WSJ has many areas that are subscriber limited–don’t know if the link will work for you if you’re not a subscriber)

2014 SYMPOSIUM – BY THE NUMBERS

The 2014 Symposium is now history and what a spectacular Symposium it was. Record attendance – 76 paid, a 19% improvement over the previous record. 5 first timers. More than 90 people at the closing banquet Saturday night. The highest number ever. 72 lots in the auction.

We are beginning to approach capacity limits in some of our venues – what a great problem to have. But the most important number is for 2015. The dates of the 2015 Symposium have been set. It will be held in Corning, New York again beginning on Thursday, September 17th and continuing through Saturday evening, September 19th. Pencil it in on your calendar. Better yet, use pen.

We will share more highlights from the Symposium in the days ahead.

Scott Hansen

President

Are Straws for Drinking?

1) Well, Michael Krumme, I could be all wet, but perhaps to some folks ‘straw marks’ looked like a piece of straw to them. Today we don’t have as much contact with STRAW on a daily basis as these folks did who had to make sure they cleaned out the very same substance from their animal’s stalls.

Then perhaps some will think my supposition more aligned with the other stuff that clung to the a fore mentioned straw as it was exiting the stable.

Was sure thinking of you folks at the Symposium Saturday night! I’ll bet it was a FAB-u-lous auction! 🙂

LIsa Ackerman, Orange, CA

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2) My belief is the term straw mark is simply that the mark often looks like a piece of straw might have been pressed against the piece of glass and left a scar or perhaps even a (drinking) straw might have left
an impression looking very much the same way. It was just a way to try and describe the way a flaw caused by numerous ‘mistakes’ looked.

Norman Skolnick, Toronto, Canada