Thursday, May 03, 2012

First off, congratulations to Gail Bardhan a member of the library staff (Reference and Research Librarian) at the Rakow Library at the Corning Museum. Gail has just had a paper published in the Glass Club Bulletin of The National American Glass Club, Spring 2012. The article is entitled “Carder Steuben: Color Cut to Clear Tableware”. The article traces correspondence from Mr. Carder and others about custom designing glass ware along with quite a number of drawings of Mr. Carder. Gail concludes offering research assistance on a long distance basis. Contact information includes “Ask a Librarian” link on the Museum’s Website (www.cmog.org) in the Research section.

Well now on to Tommy Dreiling’s (Brooklyn) question.

I have a question to throw out there. I was just reading a book about Cambridge glass and they pointed out that Cambridge sometimes “reused” colors years or even decades after it’s first issue. They usually renamed it even though it was the exact same formula as the first time, just a jazzy new name. Could Carder have done the same thing? Could some of the “lost” colors we are looking for really be renamed colors just giving a second life with a new name and maybe new shapes, optics etc.??? – Tommy Dreiling

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2012 Carder Steuben Club annual Symposium will be held at The Corning Museum of Glass in Corning, NY from September 20-22, 2012.