Akro Agate Children's Dishes-Margaret & Kenn Whitmyer-Glass reference work

Description: Normal 0 false false false EN-US X-NONE X-NONE Akro Agate Children’s Dishes. This is Monograph No. 159 in the glass study series of the West Virginia Museum of American Glass, Ltd. All the famous Akro Agate children’s sets are illustrated in full color, described in detail, and many times shown in the original boxes – this is a treasure trove for collectors of Akro Agate, children’s toy glass, and lovers of opaque glassware in general. All patterns are shown with detailed lists of the pieces made, the dimensions for each item in the line, and supplemented with original advertising. This monograph is a feast for the eyes, immaculately researched, and will serve as both a scholarly summing up and a source of great nostalgia for collectors. With a brief history of the company. Written by Margaret and Kenn Whitmyer. 76 pages, illustrated throughout. 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. If you are a member of WVMAG (at the $35.00 or above level), you will receive a $4.00 refund from the price of this monograph after payment has been made. The refund will be deposited in your PayPal account. If you are not already a member, please consider joining today by adding Membership to your order, available on the home page of our store. Membership benefits include a subscription to our acclaimed quarterly magazine, All About Glass. About the West Virginia Museum of American Glass, Ltd. (WVMAG) The West Virginia Museum of American Glass, Ltd. is a non-profit museum with a mission to share the diverse and rich heritage of glass as a product and historical object as well as telling of the lives of glass workers, their families and communities, and of the tools and machines they used in glass houses. WVMAG, Ltd. is located in Weston, West Virginia. The Museum includes representative samples of all glass products...from bottles to lightening rod balls, from telegraph insulators to glass used in automobiles, from pressed to blown tableware. We preserve the history of the places and people who made these products. Our Museum examines the rich history of some of America's most famous glass factories, while at the same time carefully understanding the impact that the hundreds of smaller and often time forgotten glass houses made on the history of the glass industry. The WVMAG displays many of the diverse and beautiful objects produced by factories during the past century. The museum attempts to compare and contrast similar pieces produced by once competing companies. No other public collection offers such contrasts on a large scale.

Price: 14 USD

Location: Weston, West Virginia

End Time: 2024-08-16T20:24:34.000Z

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