NAGC PUBLICATIONS

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The Glass Club Bulletin, published three times annually, is sent to the membership which includes more than fifty museums, libraries and other institutions in the United States, Canada and abroad. The Bulletin's editors have consistently brought to their readers leading scholarship in a wide variety of original articles and research, not only about American glass, but on international glass topics from antiquity to the work of contemporary artists.

The current issue of The Glass Club Bulletin, Spring/Summer 2008, Number 210 contains:

Cover: Detail of Finestre N. 26 (La foglia del l'autunno), Yoichi Ohira, 2007. See Figure 7 on page 21 for a full view of the object.
Jane Shadel Spillman, "From the Editor's Desk," About the contents and museum happenings
Larry Steiner, "Letter from the President," Our up-coming 2008 Seminar and Thomas Caines
Helen McKearin, "18th Century Advertisements of Glass Impots into the Colonies and the United States," ills.
Jeffery S. Evans, "The Chain-Border Pressed Glass Tray," ills.
Advertisement for Lyons Hotel, 1835-6 illustrating glassware from what might have been the hotel's bar or dining room.
John P. Smith,"Examples of L. C. Tiffany's Art in the British Isles," ills.
24th Annual National Glass Seminar, Boston, May 8-11, 2008
NAGC Strategic Planning Committee Needs Your Input
The previous issue of The Glass Club Bulletin, Autumn 2007, Number 209 contaied:

Cover: Glass vase with silver overlay, probably designed by Frederick Carder at Stevens and Williams, Bierley Hill, England, about 1895. H. 13 in. Courtesy of Bonhams and Butterfield.
Jane Shadel Spillman, "From the Editor's Desk," Looking forward to our 75th Anniversary year and the 2008 NAGC Seminar; Forthcoming events in Florida at the Morse Museum and our one-day seminar "400 years of American Glass;" Joan Kaiser's new book The Glass Industry in South Boston.
Larry Steiner, "Letter from the President" - Our beginnings 75 years ago; the first meeting and someone called the cops; The Seminar Committee; The Strategic planning Committee.
Robert H. McNulty, "18th Century German Bottles and the Amelung Connection, ills."
Ian Simmonds, "More Puzzling: Larger Objets Patterned in Smaller Molds." On pattern survival and imitating cut glass, ills.
Edward A. Bush, "The Wayward 'k' of Frederick Carder's Signature." On the vase auctioned at Bonhams (see cover), signatures of Frederick Carder and family history, ills.
Back cover: The 24th Annual National Glass Seminar, May 8-11, 2008

The Glass Club Bulletin is indexed in the Reader's Guide to Periodical Literature and an index is also published separately by NAGC with updates aperiodically in the Membership Directory. Explore an on-line Index to The Glass Club Bulletin.
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at the members' price of $4.00 each ($6.00 for non-members). A complete set of The Glass Club Bulletin (1938 to the current issue) is $400.00. Send purchase requests to Karen Petraglia, 18 Smithfield Lane, Bedford, NH 03110. Telephone: 508.429.5135, e-mail: education@glassclub.org

EDITORS OF THE GLASS CLUB BULLETIN

Ada J. Danforth 1938 - 1943
Emma D. King 1944 - 1955
Ethel Mary Doane 1955 - 1958
Joseph W. Limric 1958 - 1959
Louise Draper 1959 - 1963
Robert Bryden 1963 - 1967
Dorothy-Lee Jones 1967 - 1973
Fred Meyer 1973 - 1974
Paul Hollister 1975 - 1985
Arlene Palmer Schwind 1985 - 1990
Eason Eige 1990 - 1993
Bonnie Bledsoe-Fuchs 1994 - 1998
Kyle Husfloen - 1999
Jane Shadel Spillman 1999 -

Members also receive Glass Shards, NAGC's illustrated newsletter which is published four times a year Check out this sample of The Glass Shards .

The current issue, Summer 2008, contains the following articles:

A Seminar to Remember: 75 years of Glass Club, Francis N. Allen, ills.
Redlands Museum in Need of Expansion, Proposed future home on Eureka Street, ill.
Venetian Glass Exhibit, Craft and Folk Art Museum, Los Angeles, CA, ill.
National Marble Museum to relocate to the Museum of American Glass in West Virginia, ill.
Max Erlacher, Master Engraver, Debbie Tarsitano ills.
Glass Calendar
Research, Publication and Glass News: Leslie Greene Bowman leaves Winterthur to become President of the Thomas Jefferson Foundation

NAGC Newsletter Editor:
    1980 - 1982:       John Gotjen, RI
NAGC Newsletter INDEX On Line
Glass Shards Editors:
    1985-1993:         Sylvia Applebee Lyon, VA
    1994 - present:   Alice Walsh, MA
Glass Shards INDEX On Line

The National American Glass Club's membership directory is published annually solely for the use of the membership. It lists members' names and addresses, officers, local chapters, and, occasionally, a compilation of educational programs for NAGC members and chapters. The current Membership and Resource Directory 2007-2008, lists the NAGC Membership, forty-four Institutional Memberships and seventeen chapters nationwide. Members may list their collecting interests in the directory. Also included are the By-Laws of the National American Glass Club, Officers and Directors, Committee Chairs and Appointments, "Exploring the NAGC Web Site www.glassclub.org" and a list of supporting members. Also included are a number of illistrations depicting a variety of glass objects.
A sampling of the diversity of those interests includes American Glass, European Glass, cut glass, depression glass, paperweights, Moser art glass, sparkling lamps and other lighting, bottles and flasks, carnival glass, commerative and historical glass, Tiffany, salts, Bohemian glass, opaline, enameled glass, Gillinder, pressed pattern glass, Duncan, cordials and decanters, ancient through Islamic, Heisey, 18th & 19th c. Anglo-Irish, buttons, stained leaded glass, salt shakers, glass literature, cranberry glass, glass dolphins, perfume bottles, vaseline glass, cup plates, children's pressed glass, Sandwich glass, crackle glass, Dorflinger, Steuben - the list goes on.....

In addition, members may elect to include their e-mail addresses in the directory (those desiring to do so, should e-mail the NAGC Membership Chairperson).

The current Membership Directory was compiled and edited by Elissa Goldstein, New Jersey.