Glass Show

Do you love Steuben glass? Do you delight in talking about glass and your collection? Do you enjoy meeting people that share your interest in glass? Do you savor a good meal and interesting conversation? If you do, then you must attend the Carder Steuben Symposium’s Glass Show at the Radisson Hotel on Thursday evening, September 19. A number of new dealers in addition to some of our past dealers will participate this year, so plan on spending the evening shopping, talking, eating, drinking, and of course, buying wonderful glass!

It’s not too late to be added as a dealer. Contact David Goldstein at elvidant@aol.com

Remember – the registration deadline is September 9.

Club Name

My two cents on the club name if newer Steuben is accepted is keep the same name. Short and sweet and still covers Carder and Steuben. Regards, Jeremy Hayes, Canada

Manpower

In the ongoing saga of how the Club should continue by either including post Carder glass or excluding it David Chadwick-Brown brought up the subject of the website. Let me take a moment to explain how I see the website being affected. First, there seems to be no way to include the post Carder Steuben in the existing website. The shape/catalog numbers overlap and I doubt we would want to do so in any case. It would seem that what we would need to do is take what we have learned and paid for with the current site and adapt that software for an entirely new site that would be devoted to the post Carder glass. A new “home page” could be developed with links that would take you to either the current Carder website that would remain essentially unchanged or to the new site with post Carder glass. An estimate of the cost for this new site is something less than half of what we paid for the original site. This is just the beginning of the difficulties.

The Rakow Library has much of the post Carder material (drawings and photos etc.) from about 1980 to present. The rest of the material is somewhere else within Corning but the Club has obtained permission from Corning Inc. to use the materials that we need. Those materials that are at the Rakow are all on paper. Nothing has been scanned or digitized which is what we would need for inclusion on the new website. If, in fact, all of the material that we would need for the new website is still on paper then there is a great deal of work that will be necessary to get it into a form the website can use. This work could take hundreds of hours and much of it should be concluded before we go ahead with the new site. There is not much point in paying for a new site if we don’t have the material to put on it.

I hope that this gives you some idea of how the inclusion of post Carder Steuben will affect the website. It is all doable but it is not simple. There is some cost in dollars but there is a greater cost in the manpower that will be required to make it happen.

Marshall Ketchum

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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