We’re sorry to report that the the February 9, 2013 edition of the Wichita Eagle newspaper reports the resignation from the Wichita Art Museum of curator, Stephen Gleissner, who is responsbile for building a fabulous and important collection ofboth Carder Steuben & modern Steuben Glass. See, Wichita Eagle

DOES GLASS FLOW?

Dr. Robert Brill answers:

(No, It Doesn’t Flow-read on for details

WINFIELD PICTURES CONT.

Yesterday we published six pictures of silver overlay from Dave Winfield of St. Louis. There are more to come in the next few editions of the Gazette.

IT’S THE NUTS

Hi, Alan

I know that you/WE do not like commentary about eBay/other auctions, where Carder Steuben is being offered. But, some kind of a footnote might be helpful in this example. This particular eBay auction is not a problem, now, because the seller pulled it after I explained her error in identification. The situation is that she used OUR website to justify her identification. The 3067 (Ribbed Optic) Individual Salts are all-but identical to Individual Nuts made by Fostoria, and one needs to examine them carefully to distinguish between the two items. The seller’s original description says:

“A pair of beautiful salts from the Frederick Carder era at Steuben. Condition is excellent, no chips or cracks or scratches.

This salt is listed as shape number 3067 in The Glass of Frederick Carder, and you can find reference to the shape and color here. http://www.cardersteubenclub.org”

( Ed. An example from the Carder Steuben Club website for 3067 would look like this

Carder Steuben Celeste Blue Salt

Shape #3067)

Her photos depict Fostoria #2374 Individual Nuts/Nut, Green, ca. 1928-1940

Her auction/listing is found here :

http://www.ebay.com/itm/STEUBEN-F-CARDER-PR-SALTS-POMONA-GREEN-OPTIC-SHAPE-3067-PERFECT-/151001628243?_trksid=p2047675.l2557&ssPageName=STRK%3AMEWAX%3AIT&nma=true&si=2Zg1dHmJIZ7E4GK%252BuPi0ctGBVkM%253D&orig_cvip=true&rt=nc

Fostoria Nut

Fostoria Nut

Fostoria Nut

The (subtle) differences between Steuben & Fostoria can be seen in several instances :

1. The area where the bowl attaches to the base/foot is larger/higher with Fostoria, as it was mfg’d. in-total, whereas the Steuben pieces were actually stuck-together from separate pieces of glass.

2. The Stueben versions can vary in size, slightly. Not only from Fostoria’s, but from each other.

3. The bottoms of the Steuben items always have a ground-and-polished pontil. Fostoria’s would have been fire-polished, only. (Obviously, this is the easiest to find/see, but you have to be able to see/examine that bottom area.)

To my knowledge, the only published treatise on this subject appears on page 19 in The Open Salt Compendium, by Sandra Jzyk & Nina Robertson, published by Schiffer Publishing Ltd., 2002.

Included is a side-by-side photograph, with comments attributed to Bill Mehlenbacher, “a collector of both Steuben glass and open salts.”

Terry Smith

Signal Hill, CA

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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