Fostoria Glass Company, Book 1: The Opal Years 1897 to 1922

Description: Normal 0 false false false EN-US X-NONE X-NONE Fostoria Glass Company, Book 1: The Opal Years 1897 to 1922. By Gary Schneider. For the first time, the early opal production of the Fostoria Glass Company is presented in massive detail, with many pieces authenticated for the first time. Collectors of milk glass novelties, perfumes and other dresser items, miniature lamps, decorated vases, syrups, and saltshakers, as well as anyone who loves early Fostoria will find this volume essential. All currently known original catalogs and other primary sources have been consulted to make this book as complete as the present level of research makes possible. 566 illustrations present over 1000 pieces of glass, including lookalikes from Westmoreland, McKee, and other companies, in full color photographs and reprints of catalog pages. This volume includes chapters on Victorian novelties and dresser sets, Night lamps and other small lamps, Decorated vases, and Decorated syrups, shakers, and tableware. Book 2 is forthcoming and will cover Fostoria’s full-size lamps and other lighting. Published by the Glass Flakes Press. Plastic coil bound with laminated covers and index of patterns. 202 pages. Domestic postage is $5.00 for the first publication, $1.00 for each additional publication. For overseas shipping costs, please contact the seller. This book is a part of a much larger project to place glass information not in archival storage boxes but in the hands of students, collectors, and dealers in glass. Only by sharing can we make the necessary leaps in learning, as we all bring some piece of the puzzle. The West Virginia Museum of American Glass (WVMAG), a non-profit organization, is committed to sharing glass information and from that conviction this Monograph Series was born. If you are a member of WVMAG (at the $35.00 or above level), you will be refunded $4.00 from the price of this book after payment. (Discount applies only to the first copy of each title; subsequent copies of the same title must be purchased at regular price.) If you are not already a member, please consider joining today by adding Membership to your order, available on the home page of our store. Membership benefits include a subscription to our acclaimed quarterly magazine, All About Glass. About the West Virginia Museum of American Glass, Ltd. (WVMAG) The West Virginia Museum of American Glass, Ltd. is a non-profit museum with a mission to share the diverse and rich heritage of glass as a product and historical object as well as telling of the lives of glass workers, their families and communities, and of the tools and machines they used in glass houses. WVMAG, Ltd. is located in Weston, West Virginia. The Museum includes representative samples of all glass products...from bottles to lightening rod balls, from telegraph insulators to glass used in automobiles, from pressed to blown tableware. We preserve the history of the places and people who made these products. Our Museum examines the rich history of some of America's most famous glass factories, while at the same time carefully understanding the impact that the hundreds of smaller and often time forgotten glass houses made on the history of the glass industry. The WVMAG displays many of the diverse and beautiful objects produced by factories during the past century. The museum attempts to compare and contrast similar pieces produced by once competing companies. No other public collection offers such contrasts on a large scale. Powered by eBay Turbo Lister The free listing tool. List your items fast and easy and manage your active items.

Price: 29.95 USD

Location: Weston, West Virginia

End Time: 2024-02-25T19:07:36.000Z

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