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2022 Glass Club & Resource Directory

here are so many different ways to find out “how much is my old bottle worth?” Membership includes an annual general
collect glass—glass in general or whatever then this is the site for you. membership to the Corning Museum of Glass.
Tcatches your eye, or a specific type of The 2022 Carder Steuben Glass Association
glass, or glass made by a specific company— Antique Glass Salt and Sugar Shaker Club Annual Symposium will be held September
and here you may discover a Club of like- (AGSSSC) 8-10, 2022 in Corning, New York.
minded enthusiasts; a museum where you can www.agsssc.org
learn more about glass history and see fine Contact: AGSSSC@collector.com Corning Museum of Glass
examples; and a show, auction, or convention Corning, New York
where you can find pieces to add to your The AGSSSC is a group of salt and sugar shaker www.cmog.org
collection. The following list, submitted by our collectors who encourage, promote, and Contact: 800-732-6845
readers and advertisers, is a great place to start support the collection and study of late 19th
exploring your interests: and early 20th century glass salt and sugar Founded in 1951 by Corning Glass Works
shakers. The Club seeks to stimulate the interest (now Corning Incorporated), the Corning
and education of members and the general Museum of Glass is a not-for-profit museum
American Bottle Auctions public about this distinctive historical and dedicated to telling the story of a single material:
www.americanbottle.com decorative art form by providing written glass. The Museum cares for and displays the
Contact: info@americanbottle.com documentation, research, news articles, and world’s best collection of art and historical glass,
American Bottle Auctions, founded in 1993 opportunities for meetings and discussions. including over 50,000 objects representing
by Jeff Wichmann, specializes in the appraisal, more than 3,500 years of glass history. Glass is
brokering, consigning, and auctioning of Bergstrom-Mahler Museum of Glass brought to life through displays, live, narrated
antique bottles and glass. Neenah, Wisconsin glassmaking demonstrations, hands-on exhibits,

www.bmmglass.com conferences, and year-round events. The
American Carnival Glass Association Experience the beauty of glass art, learn in a Museum is also a center for glass scholarship,
www.myacga.com glass studio, and shop for unique gifts in the publishes journals, videos, and scholarly
Contact: kellytechie@gmail.com museum shop. Bergstrom-Mahler Museum of publications – many available on its website.
The American Carnival Glass Association is Glass holds the largest, most representative
dedicated to educating enthusiasts on, and collection of glass paperweights in the Crescent City Depression Glass Society
promoting one of America’s most colorful world. See paperweights from 19th century www.crescentcityglass.org
heritage glass, Carnival Glass – a type of French makers to contemporary masters. Contact: theccdgs@gmail.com
colored, pressed glassware with iridescence fired Additional collections include Germanic Glass, The Crescent City Depression Glass Society has
on. ACGA’s 2022 Annual Convention will be Contemporary Glass Sculpture, and Art Glass. been bringing together and educating those
held at Comfort Suites Hotel & Conference with an interest in collecting Depression Era
Center, Berlin, OH from June 9-11, 2022. Cape Cod Glass Club (CCGC) glassware and American glassware of the 40s,
www.capecodglassclub.org 50s, and 60s, since 1973. The 46th Annual
American Cut Glass Association Contact: ehl77pg@gmail.com Depression Glass and Vintage Collectibles
www.cutglass.org Founded in 2000, the Cape Cod Glass Club is Show and Sale was held on March 12-13, 2022,
Contact: acgabill@gmail.com a Chapter of the National American Glass Club in Kenner, LA.
ACGA was formed in 1978 by collectors whose (NAGC). This group of glass collectors—
common bond was the love and appreciation of students of glass design and manufacture— Czechoslovakian Collectors Association
American Brilliant Cut Glass (ABCG). The gather to become educated in identifying and www.czechcollectors.org
Association’s purpose is to foster knowledge of, learning about all types of glass – old and new, Contact: membership@czechcollectors.org
and appreciation for, American Brilliant Cut American and foreign, blown and pressed. The Dedicated to Austrian, Bohemian, and
Glass as a distinct art form; the historic Cape Cod Glass Club is the sponsor of the Czecho-Slovakian Decorative Arts. The
preservation of cut glass as an early American art Annual All Glass Show & Sale on Cape Cod, Association’s mission is to foster the collection
form; to create a record of the outstanding taking place this year on September 24-25, and appreciation of the art glass, ceramics,
works of art; and to provide a place where it is 2022, at the South Yarmouth Cultural Center. and other decorative arts of Austria, Bohemia,
seen, honored, and respected. ACGA’s 2022 and Czechoslovakia from the years 1850 to
Convention will be held July 13-16 at the Carder Steuben Glass Association 1940. The 2022 CCA Convention will be
Dallas/Rockwall Lakefront Hilton in Dallas, TX. www.steubenglass.org held in Chattanooga, TN. At press time a
Contact: info@cardersteubenclub.org date was not yet available. Check the website
Antique Bottle Collectors Haven The Mission of the Carder Steuben Glass for updated information.
www.antiquebottles.com Association is to encourage and promote the
Contact: rlynch@antiquebottles.com collecting and enjoyment of Steuben glass,
The leading educational Internet site for developed by Frederick Carder and produced
finding, buying, selling, and learning about during the period from 1903 through 1933,
Antique Bottles. If you want to learn more and post-Carder or modern Steuben glass
about a particular category of bottle, or simply produced from 1933 through 2011.

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