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Bischoff Glass: 1920s-1960s, Second EditionThis is Monograph No. 13 in the glass study series of the West Virginia Museum of American Glass, Ltd. Itincludes a brief history, time line, and reprints six catalogs issued by this company between ca. 1948 and ca. 1964-1966. The latter two catalogs include the only one put out by Bischoff after it became a subsidiary of Lancaster Colony Corporation as well as a transitional catalog from Indiana Handcraft prior to the company's final incarnation as Greenwich Flint Glass. Bischoff was a major producer of handblown items in the style of Blenko, Rainbow, and other West Virginia companies. Originally edited and with text by Dean Six, revised & updated by Tom Felt.
135 pages, fully illustrated including three catalog reprints in full color.
This small work is a part of a much larger project to place glass information not in archival storage boxes but in the hands of students, collectors, and dealers in glass. Only by sharing can we make the necessary leaps in learning, as we all bring some piece of the puzzle. The West Virginia Museum of American Glass (WVMAG), a non-profit organization,is committed to sharing glass information and from that conviction this Monograph Series was born.
The WVMAG monographs address glass topics that yet lack the wide interest to make publishing a book commercially successful or that we do not yet know enough to commit to the more permanent form of a book. WVMAG's photocopied monographs are endeavors in seed planting by providing information on topics that may not have been previously readily available that other researchers can draw upon in formulating their own work.
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About theMuseum of American Glass (MAGWV)
MAGWV isa501(c)(3) tax-exempt not-for-profit organization located in Weston,WV. Our mission is to share the diverseand rich heritage of glass as a product and historical object as well astelling of the lives of glass workers, their families and communities, and ofthe tools and machines they used in glass houses.
The Museumcontains representative samples of glass products as widely varied as pressedand blown tableware, art glass, bottles, marbles, insulators, automotive glass,glass eyeballs, and much more. There is also equipment and tools whichwere used in glassmaking. We preservethe history of the places and people who made these products.
The Museumexamines the rich history of some of America's most famous glass factories,while carefully understanding the impact that the hundreds of smaller andoftentimes forgotten glass houses made on the history of the glass industry.
MAGWV displays manyof the diverse and beautiful objects produced by factories during thepastcentury, attempting to compare and contrast similar pieces producedby once competing companies. No other public collection offers suchcontrasts on a large scale.
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