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Welcome to the American Cut Glass Association Website.

We are a non-profit organization devoted to the study and research of American Brilliant Cut Glass.   The Brilliant Period lasted from approximately 1876 to 1914.  

Please take the time to go through our web site.  It will increase your interest,  understanding, recognition, and appreciation of American Brilliant Cut Glass.  ACGA has a lot to offer you as a member, whether you are a new or long-time collector. 

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• The Hobstar is ACGA's highly educational journal published 10 times a year.  The September issue is out.  Don't miss another issue.  If you join now, you can receive this issue.  Click here to view recent Hobstar covers.  
   
• New!  More articles on cut glass will be added over the next few months.  Click here.
   
• Click here to see the ACGA collection!
   
• Are you a Facebook user?  Click Here  (Join Facebook -- as an organization, we are using Facebook as a chat board.  It's a great way to communicate with others about cut glass.)

• There is a members' only website.   Content includes: an auction database with 23,000+ records, many with photos; a cut glass patent database; the Hobstar archive back to 1978,  historical cut glass catalogs.  Now is the time to join and have access to a wealth of information about American Brilliant Cut Glass.  See link -- top right corner of this page "login".
   
• Woody Auction Results 

Another fabulous auction loaded with cut glass for the collector.  

Click here to read about the results. 

• ACGA and Huntington T. Block Insurance Company, Inc. have partnered to provide ACGA members with a unique, low cost, broad coverage insurance program that will bring you peace of mind knowing that your collection is properly protected. Huntington T. Block Insurance Company is the leading provider of fine art/collections coverage and expertise. To learn more about this ACGA Member Benefit, please call Jeff Minett, 212 479 4674 or email: Jeff_Minett@asg.aon.com
   
• We offer a Matching Service. Jim Kimberling is looking for a creamer in Queens.  Please email him if you have one or know of one. Click here for his email.
   

• Here's another fun video -- the Special Exhibit from the 2009 convention.  It is a visual feast for the eyes! (Don't miss another convention!!) Click here for more feature stories, photos and movies.
   

• 2009 Catalog Reprint! Click here to go to our store.

Special Offer!  Purchase all the catalogs on the website and receive a free membership to ACGA! Click here for more details.  Catalogs are available to non-members, and you may use Paypal.

 

• Buy from Amazon through our website;  we get a commission which pays for our site.  It can be anything, it doesn't have to be on cut glass. Just type in the search box, and it will tag that you came from ACGA.  Remember, we're a non-profit organization and every little bit helps.   

Note:  See Members Only website for contact information

Golden Gate Chapter Meeting
Saturday, September 25, 2010
Location: Museum on Main Street in Pleasanton, CA, at 11 a.m.
The Hopyard American Alehouse & Grill, also in Pleasanton, for our meeting and lunch

Lonestar Chapter Meeting
Saturday, September 25, 2010
Location: Bella Vista Ranch Olive Orchard and Winery / Wimberly Glass Works, San Marcus Texas.
 

Magnolia Chapter Meeting
Saturday, October 2, 2010, 11:30AM
Hosts:  Helen & Ken Braunstein

Columbia Chapter Meeting
Saturday, October 16, 2010
Location: Home of Marcie McKaig

Desert Star Chapter Meeting
Saturday October 16, 2010
Location: The Glass House, Fountain Hills, AZ

Heartland Chapter Meeting
Saturday October 16, 2010
Location: Wichita, KS
 

Please note, the Fall Brilliant Weekend @ HADA Show has been cancelled

Golden Gate Chapter Meeting
Saturday January 8, 2011
The Farmer Restaurant in the Pleasanton Hotel in Pleasanton, California

ACGA Convention
Wednesday July 27, 2011 - Saturday, July 30, 2011
Hilton Lake Buena Vista, Walt Disney World Resort
1751 Hotel Plaza Boulevard Lake Buena Vista, FL 32830

Phone: 407-827-4000

ACGA Contact: Bill Meek, Phone: 239-261-2637, bbmeek@comcast.net

Corning Museum of Glass Exhibition:
CMOG has decided that its 2011 summer exhibition  will be devoted to the products of the Mt. Washington Glass Company and the Pairpoint corporation in New Bedford, Massachusetts.

The date range will be from about 1880 until 1959, and the exhibit will include art glass and cut and engraved glass from that time span. 

The exhibition opens in mid-May, 2011 and will close at the end of 2011.  Plan to include this wonderful exhibition in your travel next year.