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Education and research sites

 

Glass Dictionaries:

Glass Encyclopedia ~ Links compiled by Angela M. Bowey

Terms Commonly Used to Describe Glass and Glassmaking ~ Corning Museum of Glass.

Animals:

Murano Zoo ~ Encyclopedic collection of glass animals crafted by just about all the Murano Greats.

Beads:

Venetian Glass Beads and Murano Glass Jewelry ~ by Marco Piazzalunga
An colorful tutorial about the history of beadmaking in Murano and Venice, Italy.

blogs:

Ancient Glass Blog of The Allaire Collection ~

Glass Newsletters from Angela ~ New Zealand ~

Bottles:

Bottle Collector Resource Guide ~ Comprehensive list of links about antique bottle collecting plus well scripted and illustrated information on modern-day bottle, closure and labling proesses.

Glass Bottle Marks ~ A research tool (of links) for bottles, depression glass, insulators, glass factories, etc.

Modern Punt Marks on Bottles and other glass ~ Bucher Emhart Glass, A pdf Database.

Depression and Elegant Glass:

Canadian Depression Glass ~ By Walter Lemiski

DelMarVa Depression Glass Club
The club focuses mostly on the 20th century American glassware from the Great Depression era.

Elegant and Everyday Glass Forum ~ The Museum of American Glass, West Virigina
A glass forum requiring no-fee registration. The Gallery tab contains useful information for glass
identification without registration and some of which is drawn from commercial sources.

Factories / Makers:

Boyd's Crystal Art Glass ~ Cambridge, Ohio

Libbey Glass Company
The Ward M. Canaday Center for Special Colletions, The University of Toledo. This link represents an index of company records occupying eighty-eight linear feet of shelf space. Notable is a chronology of over sixty significant dates in the History of Libbey Glass from 1818 to 1998.

Pairpoint Glass Knowledge Center

Steuben Glass ~ New York, New York - Steuben has closed down, but a page is still out there.

Geographical:

A History of Glassmaking in London ~ David Watts

British Glass ~ United Kingdom

Stourbridge Glass ~ United Kingdom

Venetian Glass Info ~ Comprehensice Information about Today's Venetian Glass

glass Artists / makers:

Antonio Neri, Conciatore - The Life and Times of 17th Century Glassmaker
Paul & Lori Engle

Lamps & lighting:

Fairy Lamps ~ Pine, CO ~

 

Pattern Glass:

Ian Simmonds - Researcher in Early American Glass ~ Excellent tutorials and graphics on how early American glass was made.

PatternGlass.com ~ Elaine & Bill Henderson, Albuquerque, New Mexico

Paperweights:

Allan's Paperweights
Glass Paperweights and Paperweight related objects and books.

PYREX:

3 Reasons I Love (and Collect) Vintage Pyrex

PYREX - Dans le Lakehouse ~ Collecting, Cleaning + Restoring Pyrex

PYREX Love

PYREX Passion ~

Pyrex Pot Luck ~ Corning Museum of Glass - Explore Pyrex patterns, recipes and more. ~

The Pyrex Collector ~

 

Misc:

Glass Lovers Glass Database ~ Pattern Index - Glass Companies - Marks

Library of Congress ~ Catalog Search ~ Washington, D. C.

Mercury Glass, Antique ~ Diane Lytwyn, Fairfield, Connecticut

Pressglas-Pavillon.de ~ An all-inclusive German site strong on European pressed glass, American included.

Real or Repro ~ A source of information about fakes & reproductions focussing on the glass section


 
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