Publications

Left: Pressed dish, 3 7/8 in. dia. 1 in. deep, Heisey Glass Co. “SATURN OPTIC”, with fired on lettering “The National Early American Glass Club 1935”
Right: Pressed window medallion, 3 1/4 in. dia., commemorating NAGC 70-th Anniversary, Art Reed, Sweetwater Glass, DeLancey, NY

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NAGC PUBLICATIONS

This page updated December 13, 2025

The Glass Club Bulletin, a semi-annual publication, is given to the membership which includes more than thirty museums, libraries and other institutions in the United States, Canada and abroad. The Bulletin’s editors have consistently brought to their readers leading scholarship in a wide variety of original articles and research, not only about American glass, but on international glass topics from antiquity to the work of contemporary artists.

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The current issue of The Glass Club Bulletin, Winter 2024/2025, Number 244, contains

• COVER: Salt cellar. Non-lead blue glass. Possibly United States, 1764-1800. Two-piece construction. Blown in a mold, with seven rows of 13 nodules. Cup-shaped bowl constricted above a solid bulbous lower section on a short drawn stem and basal knop. Applied slightly conical foot. Unpolished punty scar. OH: 3 3/16 Inches. Private collection. Photo by Lawrence Jessen.
• Lawrence Jessen, “An Engraved Amelung Flask Fragment From A Central Maryland Privy.”
• Gail Bardhan and Jill Thomas-Clark: “Decorative Or Functional Glass In The Movies.”
• Gail Bardhan, From the Editor’s Desk. About the contents of this issue.

The previous issue of The Glass Club Bulletin, Spring 2024, Number 243, contained:

• COVER: An impressive green stretch glass pitcher, tumblers and lemon server vreate an intriguing set up for entertaining at home.
• Gail Bardhan, From The Editor’s Desk, About the authors in the current issue, Our 90th birthday and a correction to our last issue, p.3
• Lawrence Jessen, “Samuel Cook’s Whiskey Jug: Marking the Sesquicentennial of a Thoughtful Gift, ills. p.4.
• Cal Hackeman, “American Stretch Glass and Home Entertaining and Decorating in the 1920s and 2020ss, ills. p.9
• Anne P. Madarasz, “Reflecting on the Past: National American Glass Club at 90, ills, p.17
• Gail Bardhan, NOTE. Article omission in previous issue, Bulletin 242, by Ian Simmonds is published re. “ALAS! THE BRITTLE CLAY!” p. 19

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Back issues are available for purchase at $7.00 each. A complete set of The Glass Club Bulletin (1938 to the current issue) is $400.00. Send purchase requests to Bill Thomas, 3708 Mill Road, Abdingdon, MD 21009. Telephone: 410.538.5558

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Our First – The Glass Club Bulletin, No. 1, January 1938

EDITORS OF THE GLASS CLUB BULLETIN

• Ada J. Danforth 1938 – 1943
• Emma D. King 1944 – 1955
• Ethel Mary Doane 1955 – 1958
• Joseph W. Limric 1958 – 1959
• Louise Draper 1959 – 1963
• Robert Bryden 1963 – 1967
• Dorothy-Lee Jones 1967 – 1973
• Fred Meyer 1973 – 1974
• Paul Hollister 1975 – 1985
• Arlene Palmer Schwind 1985 – 1990
• Eason Eige 1990 – 1993
• Bonnie Bledsoe-Fuchs 1994 – 1998
• Kyle Husfloen – 1999
• Jane Shadel Spillman 1999 – 2015
• Gail Bardhan 2015 –

Rt: Pressed cup plate by Pairpoint Glass Co. Sagamore, Massachusetts commemorating NEAGC 50th Anniversary 1983

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Members also receive:

Glass Shards is NAGC’s illustrated newsletter which is published four times a year.

View the Winter 2025 Glass Shards contains the following articles:

• New Leadership for NAGC Winter, 2025

• Chapter and NAGC News: Coventry Glass and Bottle Show, ill; Westchester Glass Club; Founders Chapter Winter 2025

• Corning Museum of Glass, 2025 Seminar Blown Away, ill Fall 2025

• Letter to the Editor Winter 2025

• Interim President’s Letter Winter 2025

• Corning Museum of Glass, ill. Winter 2025

• Northern Lights at the Glasmuseum Lette Winter, ill. 2025

• Vaseline Glass Collectors, Inc. Annual Convention ill. Winter 2025

• Bergstrom-Mahler Museum of Glass ill. Winter 2025

• Glass Calendar, Through February 28, 2026 ills. Winter 2025

• Perfume Bottle Exhibition at Racine Art Museum ill. Winter 2025

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SEARCH

Publications of the National American Glass Club such as Newsletter, Glass Shards, The Glass Club Bulletin plus other NAGC publications can be searched in a single data base on our website (search) for keywords, graphics and document covers
Another search option for The Glass Club Bulletin (and other published glass topics) is The Corning Museum of Glass – Rakow Research Library literature search at RAKOW SEARCH

Also, complete back issues of Glass Shards: in .pdf format may also be viewed.

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NAGC Newsletter Editor:
1980 – 1982: John Gotjen, RI

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Glass Shards Editors:
1985-1993: Sylvia Applebee Lyon, VA
1994 – present: Alice Saville, Illinois

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Glass Club Bulletin and Glass Shards: Designer – Jaci Saunders, Corning, NY
On Line INDEX for The Glass Shards

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The National American Glass Club’s Membership Directory is published annually solely for the use of the membership. It lists members’ names and addresses, officers, local chapters, and, occasionally, a compilation of educational programs for NAGC members and chapters. The current Membership Directory 2017-2018, lists:

• Eleven chapters nationwide.
• By-Laws of the National American Glass Club
• Officers and Directors, Committee Chairs and Appointments
• About The NAGC Web Site
• Membership Dues
• Donors
• Institutuional Memberships
• The General Membership Listing – Includes a sampling of the diversity of member’s interests which includes American Glass, European Glass, cut glass, depression glass, paperweights, Moser art glass, sparking lamps and other lighting, bottles and flasks, carnival glass, commerative and historical glass, Tiffany, salts, Bohemian glass, opaline, enameled glass, Gillinder, pressed pattern glass, Duncan, cordials and decanters, ancient through Islamic, Heisey, 18th & 19th c. Anglo-Irish, buttons, stained leaded glass, salt shakers, glass literature, cranberry glass, glass dolphins, perfume bottles, vaseline glass, cup plates, children’s pressed glass, Sandwich glass, crackle glass, Dorflinger, Steuben – the list goes on.

All issues online