Corning glass museum eyecandy....

[surfaceone]

Thanks for the tour. Great photos.

 

[cobaltbot]

RE: Corning glass museum eyecandy.... BONUS SHOW ON GLASS ON TV

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.

 

[Digswithstick]

RE: Corning glass museum eyecandy.... BONUS SHOW ON GLASS ON TV

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 !

 

[bottlediger]

RE: Corning glass museum eyecandy.... BONUS SHOW ON GLASS ON TV

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

digger ry

 

[appliedlips]

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.

ORIGINAL: JOETHECROW

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[kungfufighter]

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?

 

[kungfufighter]

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...)

 

[earlyglass]

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

Mike

 

[kungfufighter]

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...

 

[digdug]

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?