Miscellaneous Topics-in-Progress

Additional Articles of Interest

In addition to the groups of articles that are given in the Engraving 1 and Introduction 5 files in Part 1 and the Companies file in Part 3, the following articles may be of interest. Numerous other articles are, of course, found in particular files elsewhere in the GUIDE.

Anonymous, 1913: A century of cut glass making in America, Pottery, Glass & Brass Salesman, 29 May 1913, pp. 13-31.

Anonymous, 1914: "A little journal" to White Mills; Dorflinger glass factory revisited in an article which appeared Decener 25, 1914 in the Wayne County Citizen by an anonymous author, The Glass Club Bulletin, No. 174, pp. 12-18 (fall/winter 1994).

Barbe, W. B., 1996: Baseball trophy exhibits Dorflinger virtuosity, The Glass Club Bulletin, No. 179, pp. 5-7 (fall/winter 1996). [Also see: Spillman, J. S., 1996: Cut glass salute to baseball hero is a hit with visitors, Newsletter, Corning Museum of Glass, winter 1996, pp. 4-5.]

Barnett, Bill, 1999: Pricing guidelines from Libbey's American brilliant cut glass original prices, The Hobstar, Special edition no. 3, pp. 1, 4-10.

Bishop, Lloyd, 1994: C. G. Alford Co. roots found, The Hobstar, Vol. 16, No. 6, pp. 1, 6-7.

Bledsoe-Fuchs, Bonnie (editor), 1997: On the cover [Snail pattern by J. Hoare & Company], The Glass Club Bulletin, No. 180, p. 3 (spring/summer 1997).

[Book reviews], 1997: THE AMERICAN CUT GLASS INDUSTRY by J. S. Spillman (1996), in The Glass Club Bulletin, No. 180 by D. C. Watts, pp. 21-24 and by Kenneth Wilson, pp. 24-27 (spring/summer 1997).

Boonstra, Nick, 1994: Lesser known cut glass companies, The Hobstar, Vol. 16, No. 10, pp. 1, 5-11.

Campbell, R. R., 1990: The use of blacklight to identify old cut glass, The Hobstar, Vol. 12, No. 7, pp. 6-7.

Casper, G. J., 1989: Pietro Bigaglia, paperweight entrepreneur, Annual Bulletin, Paperweight Collectors' Association, pp. 4-14.

[Cassel, Chet], 1981: [Cut glass as an investment], The Hobstar, Vol. 4, No. 3, pp. 1-6.

Dorflinger, D. J., 1999: The Dorflingers' contribution to the White House glass, The Acorn, Vol. 9, pp. 37-48.

Emmerson, Leigh, 2002: No longer clueless, The Hobstar, Vol. 24, No. 9, pp. 8 -13. [Includes discussions of the diamond-point hexad, the hob-diamond hexad, and the rose-cut diamond motifs.]

Fauster, C. U., 1975: [Catalog] VAUPEL ENGRAVED GLASS, FAMILY COLLECTION OFFERING. Antique & Historic Glass Foundation, Toledo, OH, n. p.

Feller, J. Q., 1987: C. Dorflinger & Sonbs: An American tradition in fine crystal, Glass Collector's Digest, Aug/Sep 1987, pp. 10-25.

Feller, J. Q., 1988: Identifying President and Mrs. Lincoln's Dorflinger glass, The Glass Club Bulletin, No. 155, pp. 3-8 (spring 1988).

Feller, J. Q., 1988: Identifying President and Mrs. Grant's Dorflinger glass, The Glass Club Bulletin, No. 156, pp. 3-8 (fall 1988).

Feller, J. Q., 1989: Identifying Dorflinger's "Russian" pattern glass at the White House, The Glass Club Bulletin, No. 160, pp. 10-16 (winter 1989/90).

Good, H. M., 1989: Georgian glass with Cork connections in early canada, The Glass Club Bulletin, No. 160, pp. 4-7 (winter 1989/90).

Gregg, Dianne, 1998: Glass, crystal, & rock crystal, The Acorn, Vol. 8, pp. 25-29.

Hohnstein, Claire, 1992: Old ads reveal company information: Alford's rich cut glass, The Hobstar, Vol. 14, No. 5, pp. 1, 6-9.

Kosterman, Don and Rob Smith, 2004: Bush / Levine / United (and Tuthill) cut celery on figured McGee blank, The Hobstar, Vol. 26, No. 5, pp. 16-18.

LaCroix, Gerry, 2005: "Crescent" pattern misnamed as "Dautless", The Hobstar, Vol. 27, No. 9, p. 4518. [Also see the same author's article: Possibilities? Bergen's "Dauntless" pattern, The Hobstar, Vol. 27, No. 6, pp. 4462-3 (Mar 2005).

LaCroix, Gerry, 2006: Distinguishing American brilliant period cut and engraved glass from current products and counterfeits, The Hobstar, Vol. 29, No. 4, pp. 4819-24.

Matthews, Fred and Sharon, 1998: The consummate care of cut glass, The Hobstar, Vol. 21, No. 3, pp. 1, 6.

Matthews, Thomas, 1994: Mysteries of sick glass, The Hobstar, Vol. 16, No. 5, pp. 1, 5.

Matthews, Vicke, 1995: The care and cleaning of cut glass, The Hobstar, Vol. 18, No. 3, pp. 1, 6-7.

Novak, Tim, 1994: An American splendour, The Hobstar, Vol. 16, No. 8, pp. 1, 6-7. Also see related articles in The Hobstar, Vol. 17, No. 2, pp. 1, 6-8 and Vol. 17, No. 3, pp. 1, 6-7. Also, Exhibition catalog: AN AMERICAN SPLENDOUR, MSC Forsyth Center Galleries, Texas A & M University, 12 pp.

Sinclaire, E. F., 1985: American fine glass: The Birmingham connection, The Glass Club Bulletin, No. 145, pp. 3-9 (winter 1985).

Sinclaire, E. F., 1986: European glass sold as American: The Baccarat connection. The Glass Club Bulletin, No. 150, pp. 14-16 (fall 1986).

Sinclaire, E. F., 1987: A century of misconceptions: European fine glass sold as American, Annales du 10e Congres International d'Etude Historique du Verre, pp. 563-73. Madrid, Spain, 23-28 Sep 1985.

Sinclaire, Estelle, 1988: C. Dorflinger & Sons from a Corning viewpoint, The Glass Club Bulletin, No. 156, pp. 9-13 (fall 1988).

Sinclalire, Estelle, 1991: Pressures toward anonymity of Corning -- area cut glass, The Glass Club Bulletin, No. 165, pp. 3-7 (fall 1991).

Smith, Rob and Don Kosterman, 2004: Six Fry catalogs; when were they published?, The Hobstar, Vol. 26, No. 5, pp. 20-22.

Spillman, J. S., 1995: [Book reviews: GLASS IN EARLY AMERICA and AMERICAN GLASS, 1760-1930] Decorative Arts, Vol. 3, No. 1, pp. 71-75 (fall/winter 1995/6).

Spillman, J. S., 1997: The New England glass company catalog of pressed glass. An introduction, The Acorn, Vol. 7, pp. 71-73.

Spillman, J. S., 2002: Punch bowl exhibited by J. Hoare & Company at the world's Columbian Exhbition, Chicago 1893, The Hobstar, Vol. 24, No. 6, p. 14.

Spillman, J. S., 2003: Two presentation inkwells made in Corning, The Hobstar, Vol. 26, No. 2, pp. 8-11.

Taylor, G. LeC., 1984: Millville mantel ornament identified, The Glass Club Bulletin, No. 143, pp. 9-10. Also see: A Millville connection, Pittsburgh Glass Journal, Vol. 3, No. 1, pp. 2-4 (Sep 1990).

Waldron, A. J., 2000: Stories stamped in silver: using the Gorham archives to identify American brilliant cut glass, The Hobstar, Vol. 22, No. 6, pp. 1, 8-11, 13-14.

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