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RE: Corning glass museum eyecandy.... - 2/14/2010 11:36:29 PM

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Thanks for the tour. Great photos.

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RE: Corning glass museum eyecandy.... BONUS SHOW ON GLA... - 2/14/2010 11:36:49 PM

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Another good way to beat the winter blues. Also go back in the summer sometime. The area is great with Corning, hiking in Watkin's Glen, finger lakes, wineries and huge waterfalls.

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RE: Corning glass museum eyecandy.... BONUS SHOW ON GLA... - 2/15/2010 12:11:41 AM

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Great show ,amazing collection ,thanks for great post .That scale model glass blowing operation is awesome .Wish i would have seen the TV program ,i collect GBBA Union Bottles ,but thanks for info on content .Great pictures too !

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RE: Corning glass museum eyecandy.... BONUS SHOW ON GLA... - 2/15/2010 12:22:03 AM

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Very nice pics. I try to go to their once a year. Looks like you missed the blue columbian eagle though, very impressive bottle. It was in a werid spot if I recall correctly

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RE: Corning glass museum eyecandy.... - 2/15/2010 12:50:38 AM

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Thanks for the great tour Joe. I have never been lucky enough to make it up there but would love to. Can you or anyone identify the yellow green beaded edge flask in the upper right. It looks like a real show stopper, it's a crime to not have it displayed where it cannot be veiwed, in the same case that has some common aqua flasks in the front row.

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RE: Corning glass museum eyecandy.... - 2/15/2010 9:04:07 AM

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As memory serves it's a GII-16 Doug and a dandy at that. Sadly, Corning does not do a terribly good job of displaying the McKearin Collection but it's still a great place to visit. Looking at a one of a kind flask THROUGH an aqua Washington-Taylor and a common calabash can be annoying but it's still wildly enjoyable. For some reason folks always look strangley at Holly and I as we crawl along the floor looking at the lower rows or the bases of the flasks. I wonder why that might be?

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RE: Corning glass museum eyecandy.... - 2/15/2010 9:12:14 AM

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Now that I say it's a GII-16 I'm no longer certain. I thought it was a perspective issue that makes it look taller than the pint in front of it but it now appears to have embossing along the medial ridge and it sure looks more and more like a pint than a half-pint. Hmmm.... Now you see why you need to go there and see the collection in person AS WELL AS continue to write in requests that the collection be reorganized. (Something I have done along with others but more folks need to make this point...)

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RE: Corning glass museum eyecandy.... - 2/15/2010 9:41:06 AM

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Based upon what else I see on that shelf... I would say it is a Group I flask... possibly a GI-65?

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RE: Corning glass museum eyecandy.... - 2/15/2010 10:12:33 AM

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They are only "loosely" organized by McKearin numbers but yes, you are correct Mike, that would be the group of flasks we should be considering...

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RE: Corning glass museum eyecandy.... - 2/15/2010 2:39:20 PM

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If you want to read 30 pages of the book Joe mentioned 'The Glass House Boys of Pittsburg', check out this link.
http://www.upress.pitt.edu/htmlSourceFiles/pdfs/9780822943778exr.pdf
I also heard the Corning Museum had a GREAT library with a ton of books about bottles, glass making, etc. I would love to go and do some serious research there! Did you see the library?

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RE: Corning glass museum eyecandy.... - 2/15/2010 4:15:01 PM

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As memory serves it's a GII-16 Doug and a dandy at that. Sadly, Corning does not do a terribly good job of displaying the McKearin Collection but it's still a great place to visit. Looking at a one of a kind flask THROUGH an aqua Washington-Taylor and a common calabash can be annoying but it's still wildly enjoyable. For some reason folks always look strangley at Holly and I as we crawl along the floor looking at the lower rows or the bases of the flasks. I wonder why that might be?

Your correct and I would love to see the collection, regardless. Realizing the same flask is in one of Joe's other pics I think Mike's assumption that it is one of the beaded edge Jackson flasks is dead on. Looking from the other angle I see you have to look through a common wash-taylor and then through a GII-62( another crime ) to see it. I appreciate the fact that these items are preserved and displayed but many are truly National treasures and should be treated as such. I will follow your lead and send a positive letter to the museum. I remember reading an article by Ralph Finch a few years ago about this but without pictures it didn't have much meaning.Thanks again for sharing your experience with us Joe.

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RE: Corning glass museum eyecandy.... - 2/15/2010 6:02:10 PM

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I can't believe that I have never been to corning. It's a trip
that I have been wanting to take for a long time. Anyway, thanks
for the tour. I'm sure there is some spectacular glass to see,
especially from the Mckearin collection.

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RE: Corning glass museum eyecandy.... - 2/15/2010 6:27:17 PM

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Can't believe I have not already said it but I should add a very sincere "thank you" to Joe and Laur for sharing pics. Your efforts are most appreciated!!!!

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RE: Corning glass museum eyecandy.... - 2/15/2010 6:32:39 PM

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Now that my head is on a bit straighter (note to self - get the flu shot next year) I am fairly confident that the flask in question is a GI-68 Jackson-Flowers, one of my favorite Pittsburgh molds. Of course ANY beaded Jackson flask in color is a phenomenal object so in the end, it's a treat to see any of 'em

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RE: Corning glass museum eyecandy.... - 2/15/2010 6:59:33 PM

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Jeff,..You're most welcome...Thanks everyone for the appreciative comments...., Digdug...We did not make it to the library, there was just so much to see, that a second trip is warranted. I'm not one to fault find too often, but I will agree that whomever arranged the flasks did not posses any logic that I can fathom,

But in spite of that, it was truely awe inspiring to see all that rare and important glass! I did quite a bit of crawling around on the floor as well,...

I'll post up a few more pics,...In some of these, the awful arrangement can be better seen. Still and all,..good....Joe

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RE: Corning glass museum eyecandy.... - 2/15/2010 7:01:20 PM

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RE: Corning glass museum eyecandy.... - 2/15/2010 7:02:35 PM

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RE: Corning glass museum eyecandy.... - 2/15/2010 7:04:20 PM

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RE: Corning glass museum eyecandy.... - 2/15/2010 7:06:16 PM

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RE: Corning glass museum eyecandy.... - 2/15/2010 7:12:16 PM

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