Interesting. I was a digger a little over 70 years ago. I still have some of those early collection pieces. The big difference is that when I got older, I ended up working int the glass factory that I visited when I wass ten. After 15 years there - I traveled most of the world developing special metal mold and glass making castings to a lot of glass factories and moLd shops. My main interest has always been the hand blown glass - where the glass blowers had to learn and try things to make good products. The hobby makes me smile, almost every da/. RED M.