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Collectors of the Art Glass
Movement
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It
probably is not an overstatement to say the glassware is
one of the most popular areas in the collecting
community. Depression glassware passed down for
grandmother to mother to daughter is a way they many
collections start. In a way glassware passes down a
family's heritage, keep family history is a tenable
object or treasure depending how one views
it.
Many people collect glassware by type
such as Depression glass, which is a pressed glass made
during the depression era and passed out at the doorway
of 5 and 10 department stores (which today are our
Wal-marts, Targets, and K-marts) or give away in cereal
boxes. Or it might be milk glassware, which has a
considerable following. Or even the deep blue cobalt
glassware, collectors amassing large collections, this
glass is made by adding cobalt compounds to the molten
glass. There are many glassware types, it is easy to
find a type you like to collect.
Other collectors
like to specialize their glassware by company, such as
Blenko stemware and tableware, Candlewick from the
Imperial, Central Glass Company, Wheeling, West
Virginia, and its beautiful glass, large variety of
Fenton, fine glassware and this fanciful collection of
scarce, unique, and whimsy Fostoria. I Could go on and
on about the various glassware in the United States.
Past, Present, and I'm sure in the future American glass
makers will make everyday and collectible
glassware.
But collectors in America don't just
collect American glassware products. The are avid
followers of European glassware too. In fact some of the
finest glassware in the world come areas such as Venice,
Italy: Barcelona, Spain: Scandinavian countries,
England, and of course France. Sometimes it is very
difficult to find good books on glassware from these
countries, Delve Bookstore is continuously hunting for
glassware books that pertain to these
areas.
Another area of glassware is Art Glass.
Wikipedia says " Art glass normally means the modern art
glass movement in which individual artists working alone
or with a few assistants to create works from molten
glass in relatively small furnaces of a few hundred
pounds of glass. This glassware development began in the
early 1960s and showed continued growth through the end
of the century. The glass objects created are not
primarily utilitarian but are intended to make a
sculptural or decorative statement. The significant of
this art glassware is that it is usually produced by
individual artist is small shops and not in major
manufacturing glass
facilities.
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