Tuesday December 18, 2012

Something New

Notice something new? Of course, it’s a whole new look for the Gazette. You may recall that several weeks ago we had problems sending the Gazette to those on AOL. So, we’ve moved to a new professional supported e-mail platform. This will cost the Carder Steuben Club several hundred dollars a year. However, we think it is worth it. We hope we’ll attract some new memberships to help pay for this. So, if you don’t belong to the Carder Steuben Club already, please consider joining. The cost is only $35 for membership.

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Many thanks go to our website developer, Marti DeGraf, webmaster Marshall Ketchum and Scott Hansen in their intensive efforts to work on this new e-mail. We still have some work to do, but want to get started with this particular Gazette.

Nomenclature

In the last Gazette (#1631) Michael Krumme asked several questions about how open museums were to better identification and descriptions of glass. The first response is from Joann Tortarolo:

Speaking for the Historical Glass Museum in Redlands, we are working to identify our glass with the specific information of maker, pattern, manufacturer’s color name, and dates produced for each piece. It takes a lot of time to complete this identification but we feel that we can better represent our glass if we do so.

Marshall Ketchum also answered.

Alan

Michael Krumme asks two questions. The first concerns the nomenclature that museums use in describing colors and forms. Where Steuben is concerned the normal factory colors and forms seem not to be used. I think that this seems to be the case. If you spend some time going through the Carder Steuben collection online at CMoG website you will find that even they do not use the normal Steuben color names nor do they describe the shapes by the shape numbers we all know so well. One can only guess why they do it this way.

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