If you haven’t already noticed, the Carder Steuben Club webpage now has the beginnings of a Stoppers section (there’s a link on the left). I think it is in the development stage, but the photos so far are great. Scott Hansen, Briarcliff Manor, New York

PHILPOT INTERVIEW

Mr. Carder did have a single cased glass he made by casing a flint white with transparent colored crystal. Here is the following where he describes” in his own words” the vase in his personal collection. The recorded interview was with Mr. Carder, Mr. Bob Rockwell, and Mr. Gerry Philpot at Mr. Carder’s house in 1963. This glass was popular with Stevens and Williams , Mount Washington, and many other glass companies. It was not a full fleged production item but as usual Carder made it too. Pictures will show my bowl and the white glass threading Carder was speaking of.

Here is what I found in the transcript of the recording Conversations with Carder on Steuben page 17:

Conversations with Carder on Steuben

Mr Philpot: Mr. Carder, you have in your collection here, a small cased ruby vase and the interior casing of it is a whitish substance. Can you tell us something about the white glass, sir?

Mr. Carder: Well, it’s just ordinary white glass that I make for threads.

Mr Philpot: For what sir?

Mr. Carder: For threading.

Mr Philpot: Threading?

Mr Carder: For fine threading, for instance, for latticino work and things of that kind. It was a hard glass and when the cup is made it is dropped into a mold and then it is filled with the white. That is all that’s necessary to blow it out into the form and you’ve got a coating of a certain thickness of ruby all over the object.

END

Carder is describing a Gold Ruby vase with a white glass casing on the inside. A transparent colored crystal on top of ordinary white glass. The white threading Mr. Carder is talking about is the threading that shows up on Bristol Yellow, Celeste Blue and Pomona Green . Exactly what I am seeing in the green and white bowl. That is why I took the picture of the white bottom of the bowl next to the Ivrene vase to show both are stark white. Rande Bly, Birmingham, Alabama

2013 Carder Steuben Club annual Symposium will be held at The Corning Museum of Glass in Corning, NY from September 19-21, 2013. The festivities will begin with Frederick Carder’s 150th birthday celebration on the evening of September 18, 2013.

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