Blenko
Glass 1930-1953
- by Eason
Eige
Consisting mostly of illustrations, this volume
gives a
brief history of glassmaking, goes on to detail the history of the
Blenko Glass Company, then concentrates on the items produced from 1930
(when it "officially" became Blenko Glass) to 1953.
Included are numerous color photos picturing
hundreds of
glass pieces, dozens of black and white reproductions of original
catalog pages (many with the original wholesale prices), and several
pages of sketches, original advertisements, and photos of Blenko glass
blowers at work.
Fenton
Art Glass 1907-1939: Identification & Value Guide (2nd Edition)
Fenton
Art Glass Patterns 1939-1980: Identification & Value Guide
Phoenix
Art Glass: An Identification and Value Guide (Schiffer)
Harry
Northwood: Early Years, 1881-1900
Harry
Northwood: The Wheeling Years, 1901-1925
Heisey
Glass: The Early Years : 1896-1924
Heisey
Glass 1896-1957: Identification and Value Guide
The
Complete Cut & Engraved Glass of Corning
The
Cut and Engraved Glass of Corning 1868-1940
H
P Sinclaire, Jr, Glassmaker: The Manufacturing Years
- by Estelle
S. Farrar
The
American Cut Glass Industry: T. G. Hawkes and His Competitors
Findlay
Glass
Sandwich,
the Town that Glass Built;: Illus. with drawings by Robert Hallock
Glass
Industry in Sandwich (The Glass Industry in Sandwich Series, Vol 2)
English
Table Glass, (Batsford's Collector's Library)
English
and Irish Glass
- by Geoffrey
Wills
Glass
in Jewelry : Hidden Artistry in Glass
English
Cameo Glass
English
Cameo Glass in the Corning Museum of Glass
Turn
of the Century Glass: The Murray Collection of Glass
New
England Glass and Glassmaking
- by Kenneth
M. Wilson
"This comprehensive history of New England glass
contains nearly four hundred illustrations, showing the development of
styles over a period of four centuries, from the founding in 1639 of
the region's first glasshouse... in Salem, Mass., to the opening in
1970 of a new factory in Sagamore, Mass., by the Pairpoint Glass
Company, Inc.
Wilson describes each of the factories that
operated in
the area, tells which types of glassware were made..., discusses
individual pieces in detail, and offers the reader many expert
judgments on the attribution of different items to specific factories
and artisans...
The trials of the early entrepreneurs... are
vividly
described. Faced with severe competition from low-cost Anglo-Irish
imports, many firms lasted only a year or two despite their claims...
that American glassware was equal or superior to the best European ware.
All the great names are here, including:
- Robert Hewes, operator of a
glassworks
in Temple, NH, in 1780-1781 and later "super-do" of the Pitkin glass
Works in East Hartford, Conn.
- Thomas Cains, founder of the
Phoenix
Glass Works, who as a young man was secretly recruited in England (it
then being against British law to lure glassworkers to America).
- Deming Jarves, whose Boston
&
Sandwich glass company became so famous for its lacy pressed glass that
all glass of this type is now known as Sandwich glass.
- The Coventry (Conn.) Glass
Factory, whose
highly varied output of bottles and other hollow wares makes it so
interesting to collectors today.
- the Glastenbury (Conn.)
Glass Factory
Company, the only nineteenth-century glasshouse whose site has been
excavated by professional archeological methods.
- such other renowned
glasshouses as the New England Glass Company and the Mount Washington
Glass Works...
Mr. Wilson deals with the complete range of glass
products, from snuff jars and inkwells to plates, lamps, and bottles of
all descriptions, to chandeliers and stained-glass windows.
He explains the reasons for changes in style and
design;
assesses the impact on glassmaking of such social movements as
temperance and artistic movements as Bohemianism, and tells how the
high costs of fuel and transportation combined with labor problems to
lead to the industry's decline...
Stemware
of the 20th Century: The Top 200 Patterns
Animals
in Glass: A Murano Bestiary
Glass
Animals: 3500 Years of Artistry - by Albane Dolez
"Glass animals are among the most universally
admired -
and widely collected - art forms in glass. For more than 3500 years
artisans have fashioned animals, ...real and fanciful, ...wild and
domestic, in an astonishing array of forms and for a wide diversity of
uses: as figurines, perfume bottles, jewelry, paperweights, beakers,
tiles, plaques, lamps, vases, and stained-glass windows.
...Glass Animals surveys this
rich heritage for
the first time. Here, in 300 illustrations, are premier examples of the
glassmaker's art, ranging in date from Dynastic Egypt to the present
day, and from over twenty countries. The United States and Japan,
Europe (from Russia to Spain), and the Middle East are all represented.
In addition to the historic examples, are Art
Nouveau
and Art Deco glass, and glass by such masters of the genre as Louis
Comfort Tiffany and Emile Gallé, all drawn from museum
collections and private treasuries the world over.
Pieces by the outstanding manufacturers of glass -
Steuben, Baccarat, Lalique, Daum, Kosta Boda, and others - and
contemporary examples from art glass makers of today add to this
diverse compendium of animals in glass.
Equally diverse are the many types of glass, among
them blown glass, mosaic, crystal, pâte de verre, and milk
glass."
Collector's
Encyclopedia of Depression Glass
Depression
Glass for Collectors
A
Complete Guide to Pressed Glass
Collector's
Guide to American Pressed Glass, 1825-1915
Collectable
Glass Shoes: Including Metal, Pottery, Figural & Porcelain Shoes
Glass
Tumblers: 1860S to 1920s Identification and Value Guide
