New publication of interest to libraries whose patrons are interested in the decorative arts, especially American brilliant cut glass (1880s-1915)

New Catalog for 2013!

The Cut Glass of Mt. Washington

The Mount Washington Glass Works, founded in Boston in 1837, moved to New Bedford, MA in 1869 and was absorbed by Pairpoint in 1894. Mt. Washington is perhaps best known

today for pioneering the production of art glass in America, but it also produced fine American Brilliant cut glass when it introduced a cutting department in the 1870's.  

 

The American Cut Glass Association is publishing a collection of Mt. Washington's cut glass catalogs. It will be available for sale in July 2013.  The compendium includes seven of the earliest Mt. Washington catalogs, featuring cut glass circa 1880 through the 1890's. Jane Shadel Spillman, now retired Curator of American Glass at The Coming Museum of Glass,  has written the introduction.

 

The original catalog pages are found primarily in the archives of the Rakow Research Library of the Corning Museum of Glass. Other materials are in the collection and archives of the New Bedford Museum of Glass, the

New Bedford Whaling Museum, and supplemented with photographs of Mt. Washington pieces from ACGA collectors. The illustrations are taken from earlier Mt. Washington cut glass catalogs, circa 1880 - 1887. We anticipate the publication will include around 300 pages and it will include a comprehensive pattern index.

 

Cost is $55 for ACGA members, and $64 for non-members.. Prices include USPS Media Mail shipping.

 

To order a copy, please complete the information below and send it, along with your check made payable to the American Cut Glass Association, to:

 

Mrs. Kathy Emmerson, ACGA Executive Secretary

P. O. Box 482

Ramona, CA 92065-0482