Received from members Andrea & Alan Koppel is a previously unrecorded variant of the World War I-era "Preparedness" plate. Learn what distinguishes this exciting discovery from the plate published by Bessie M. Lindsey in her 1967 book American Historical Glass.
Previously Unrecorded "French Ink"
Members Richard & Lesley Harris have donated a previously unrecorded variant of the "French Ink" illustrated in the c. 1878 Boston & Sandwich Glass Company trade catalog. Click the photo to learn why we think this is a French precursor of the celebrated Sandwich examples.
Beware! Fakes!
NBMOG is delighted to receive from member Pamela Levine the gift of two notorious fakes from the 1930s. Pressed in Czechoslovakia in the Sandwich "Tulip" pattern, these lamps in luscious green and blue continue to fool collectors even after author Ruth Webb Lee featured them in Antique Fakes & Reproductions, published in 1938.
Thomas Cains Glass
From the family of the late Kenneth M. Wilson, author of numerous books on the subject of glass and former Vice President of NBMOG, the Museum has received a fascinating group of lamps and tools associated with Mr. Wilson's study of early American pressed glass and the lamps of South Boston glass manufacturer Thomas Cains.
Labino Vase
Another gift from the family of Kenneth M. Wilson is this 1968 vase by glass engineer and studio glass pioneer Dominick Labino. Labino, a personal friend of Mr. Wilson, contributed to the success of the famous Toledo glassblowing workshops organized by ceramist Harvey Littleton in 1962. These workshops are credited by many with initiating the so-called studio glass movement.
