Volume 19 Number 4, October, 2012

President
Vice President
TOBY KRUGER
ANDY DOHAN
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Volume 19 • Number 4
www.dvpaperweights.org
CHICAGO PAPERWEIGHT WEEKEND
October 2012
H. Selman where we viewed their large inventory of
paperweights and met up with collector friends from
all over the country converging for the big event. The
attendees stayed in several downtown hotels except
for those who live in the Chicago area. The official
weekend began with a 6:00 P.M. Friday evening
reception at The Art Institute followed by the ribbon
cutting by Wes Clark. The collection was then opened
for the group to view. There are now 13 lighted
wall cases each holding 50 paperweights vertically
arranged in a diamond pattern and numbered with
the factory or artist name at the bottom. The cases
have a white background with each paperweight
supported by a wire bracket. In addition there are
three display cases in the center of the room one
of which has Paul Stankard’s “Honey Bee Swarm
With Flowers and Fruit”, a 16 inch sphere especially
created for the collection. Paul spoke during the
showing explaining that he considers it to be the best
by Don Formigli
The bi-annual Paperweight Weekend sponsored
by L. H. Selman was held September 28-30, 2012
with a number of DVPCA members attending the
4 wall cases of Rubloff Collection
festivities. The centerpiece of the weekend was
the opening of the expanded Rubloff Paperweight
Collection at the Art Institute of Chicago.. Of the 135
total collectors and artists attending the event we
counted Nancy Alfano, Lee Arnold, Neal Demp, Rob
& Pam Campe, Don Formigli, Gary & Bonnie Geiger,
Elliott & Rosalyn Heith, Toby Kruger, Deborah & Kim
Zonies, David Graeber and Gordon Smith as DVPCA
members. Besides collectors and artists there were
also 25 representatives of The Art Institute of Chicago
there. The event was organized by L. H. Selman,
The International Paperweight Society and the Clark
family and was done in honor of Paul Jokelson.
Art Institute of Chicago
of the best of his work. News articles of the event
note that the gallery expansion project increases the
number of paperweights on view from 341 to more
than 800. Following the viewing a banquet was held
at the museum during which we heard from several
speakers including Wes Clark, Larry Selman and
Dwight Lanmon.
On arriving many of us visited the show rooms of L.
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Chicago is a wonderful city to visit with beautiful
lake front parks, statuary, fountains, museums and
breathtaking skyscrapers many of which were built
in the last 10 years. For those of you who missed
this event we highly recommend that you consider
attending the next time which is already scheduled
for the last weekend in September 2014.
Ribbon cutting for the Rubloff Collection
Larry Selman, Ben, Wes and Mitch Clark
The Driehaus Museum
On Saturday an Artist’s Faire was held from 10 AM
– 4 PM at the Congress Hotel on Michigan Avenue.
Twelve artists had displays of their latest work for
sale and each one gave a 20 minute presentation
in an adjacent room throughout the day. A box lunch
was provided for the event. There appeared to be a
great deal of activity at the payment table as folks
settled up their purchases.
At 6:30 PM a limited group of 120 attendees gathered
at the Driehaus Museum for a dress up evening of
fun and dinner. The museum is a 25,000-square
foot mansion built from 1879 to 1883 as a home for
a Chicago banker. The interior contains extensive
marble, carved wood and art work throughout and we
were allowed to roam throughout before being served
an elegant dinner on the third floor. A very special
treat was arranged at the museum by the Selman
organization. This was a collection of paperweights
showing the best examples of antique paperweights
from private collections available. These were
displayed on an open table for close examination in
a basement room of the mansion.
On Sunday morning the Art Institute opened an hour
early just for our group to get a second look at the
Rubloff exhibit and also to have a guided tour of the
Thorne Miniature Rooms.
One of the Wall Cases
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View of Chicago from the river
LENDING LIBRARY NEWS
Crystal Works. These all are short but interesting
reads.
Diane Atkerson
The last of the soft bound is by Anne Metcalfe of
the UK, entitled, Paperweights of the 19th and 20th
Centuries- A Collectors Guide. It has great photos
and just enough reading to make one want to read
more. It’s a nice learning book and reference guide
too, plus, it has a glossary.
Rather than reviewing 3-4 books, this review will
include several of the smaller soft bound books and
other readings.
First, there is a great 7 page paperweight article by
Anne Gilbert in, Today’s Collector - Jan 1999, a large
magazine like publication. The article has nice clear
color and black and white photos of many weights we
are familiar with plus a story about a $45,000 weight
that sold at a Selman sale.
So stroll over to the Lending Library area and find
a read to take home with you and enjoy relearning
about paperweights.
A supplement from the April 26,2006, New Jersey
Daily Journal, entitled, 200 Years of Glass in Millville,
is dedicated to the history of glass production that
shaped Millville into a well known glass center.
Preserving Our
Club History
Another newspaper, BLADE, from Toledo OH,
emphasizes the Pavilion at the Toledo Museum,
which many saw who attended the PCA convention
in 2009.
It has been brought to our attention
that it would be desirable to preserve
our club records in a permanent
archive. PCA, Inc., the national
collectors group, has investigated
the possibility of archives for their
records and has learned that
there is a repository for archives
existing at Corning. They are just
beginning to start the process and
have learned from Corning that all
the local collectors clubs are also
welcome to submit their records for
archiving there. At this point they
still have no written instructions of
how to proceed from Corning so until
that is established there is no need
for DVPCA to begin the process.
However, we are opening the
subject up for discussion. At some
point we want to name a member to
take charge of our archive process
and begin collecting records from
any member who has records that
should be preserved.
A nice copied article on advertising paperweightsJim Perna’s favorites- gives us an idea of the many
varieties of advertising weights that have been made
through the years.
Even though these newsletters are not recent (2007
& 2008) it is interesting how each differ. We have
them from: England, Indiana, Ontario, Oklahoma,
MD-DC-VA, Northern CA, Texas and New Zealand/
Australia.
Geroge Kulles needs no introduction as most of us
have met him and enjoyed his humorous but very
interesting talks. His two small softbound books,
Identifying Antique Paperweights-Lampwork and
Identifying Antique Paperweights - Millefiori, are so
informative and to the point with great illustrations
plus wonderful colored photos. The latter book has
a glossary.
To me, one of most informative magazines on glass
was, Glass Collectors Digest, which the library has
several issues with various articles on paperweights.
These articles include: Egg Shape Paperweights
(Part 1 and 2), Paul Stankard, Caithness, Paperweight
Buttons (Part 1 & 2), The Creation of a Feeling in
Glass by Randall Grubb, and John Dorflinger,
Paperweights by Gay Taylor and an article by our
very own member, Frank Gardner entitled, Dorflinger
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about Edward J. Kachurik
DO YOU REMEMBER?
The first day of issue of the thirty-three cent American
Glass Stamps was June 29, 1998 and held in the Corning
Museum of Glass.
To honor the occasion, the Museum created a special
exhibit of glass objects that were featured on the stamps
and were on display from June 29-Nov1.
The stamp sheet featured four different stamps that
showed 16 American objects. The following glassmaking
techniques were illustrated: four free-blown, four moldblown, and four art glass objects. These objects and
the techniques represented, provided an overview of
American glass history. The stamp sheet also included
a rendering of a Tiffany window and a drawing of a
glassblower.
Among the glass objects on the stamps were: a Richard
Wistar bottle, made in South Jersey in the mid -18th
century, the earliest known piece of American glass; two
pieces designed by Louis C. Tiffany (on the art glass
stamp); and a vessel designed by Frederick Carder (on
the art glass stamp).
Ed Kachurik was born in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania,
on April 2, 1957. He began working with hot glass
in 1978.
Ed has been creating his glass sculptures for
more than two decades and continues to reach
deep within himself to design new creations of art.
He attended Penland School in North Carolina
and Pennsylvania State University. Ed has taken
the technical aspects of his studies at Penland
School and combined them with his innate talent
to create beautiful sculptures, which are seen in
galleries and museums throughout the country.
The bottle and tableware branches of the glass industry
were represented by objects on the stamps. The window
glass industry was represented by the glassblower
holding a crown of glass on the end of his pipe and by the
stained glass window from Corning’s collection.
Eight of the glass vessels featured on the stamps were
from the collection of the Corning Museum of Glass. They
were the objects depicted on the stamps that featured
free-blown glass and art glass. The four pressed objects
were part of the Sandwich Museum collection and the
four mold-blown objects were in a private collection.
While this was the first time the United States Postal
Service had issued commemorative stamps that featured
glass objects, several European countries have done so
in the past. The Rakow Library of The Corning Museum
of Glass has a collection of these European stamps which
features glass.
Ed Kachurik uses a technique of treating the
hot glass surface, which is called veiling. Veiling
is a metallic coating that is applied to the hot
glass, and then covered with clear glass, thus
trapping the color inside the sculpture. Kachurik
is an independent glass artist who experiments
with precious metals and chemicals to create his
own unique colors. These transparent sculptures
maximize the extraordinary inherent qualities of
glass. Every design is handcrafted using wooden
blocks and newspaper to help him work with the
molten glass. After the sculptures have been
annealed, they are hand ground and polished.
Each flat surface of the sculpture must go through
six different steps of polishing to achieve the
optical polished finish. The facets are added
to give visual enhancement to the interior glass
veiling. Each piece is personally signed.
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Review of Events
DVPCA Summer Meeting
July 21, 2012
There were exhibits by all American Glass Companies:
Boston & Sandwich, New England Glass, Mount
Washington, Union, Gillinder, Dorflinger, Whitall
&Tatum and 17 smaller companies. Gillinder had
two exhibit buildings and a working factory with an
exhibition area with a glory hole and pressed glass
molds using an estimated 7 tons of glass a month.
They made many souvenirs that were for sale:
flowers held by a hand; ladies boots, paperweights
with portraits including the current president Ulysses
S. Grant, Abraham Lincoln, William Shakespeare, a
young George Washington and Benjamin Franklin;
plaques showing Independence Hall, Memorial Hall,
the Women’s Pavilion and the Gillinder Building
as well as Abe Lincoln and others; figurines of a
Drummer Boy, reclining lion, lion’s head, and a
Cinderella slipper. Over 100,000 items were sold
during the exhibition. There were other glass marvels
on exhibit including chandeliers, a working fountain,
and an all glass women’s dressing table.
The two day Summer Meeting of the Delaware
Valley Paperweight Collector’s Association was also
our 20th Anniversary Celebration. Saturday, July
21st began with our usual business meeting held at
Williamson’s Restaurant in Horsham, PA. We had 49
members and guests present including 1st timers:
Ellen Bergman, Paige LaDenway, Eileen Linted
and Charlotte Taylor. Charter members of DVPCA
were recognized. Our guest Dealer was Bill Pitt.
All present received table favors from the chapter
as well as paperweight stands donated by the L.H.
Selman Co.
Tickets for a special raffle of Shadow Boxes created
from glass canes by Andy Dohan were sold at $10
each or 3 for $25. The winners will select from the
boxes on display in the order the tickets were pulled.
The proceeds will be donated to the Stanley B.
Kruger Memorial Library Fund at WheatonArts.
John has a list of sources available for anyone
interesting in finding out more about the Centennial
Exhibition – just email him.
The second part of Saturday’s event was our annual
Garden Party to be held at the home of Andrew and
Nancy Scott in Ambler. Congratulations to the Scotts
on their recent nuptials!
LUNCH and SALE of RAFFLE TICKETS – A delicious
luncheon was served with entrée choices of chicken
or crab cakes. Andy Dohan gave an explanation
of the shadow box raffle. Donated gifts brought by
members were used this meeting as door prizes.
Our Sunday event is a visit to the Grounds for
Sculpture in Hamilton, New Jersey described in our
June Newsletter.
BUSINESS MEETING
OLD BUSINESS
MORNING PROGRAM
Paperweight Fest, May 30th-June 2nd, was very
successful. Kudos go to Andy Dohan and Boyd
England for all their efforts pulling everything
together. Members who attended enjoyed all the
speakers and other activities. Especially mentioned
were the afternoon sessions in the glass factory
watching the demonstrations of weight making
by the WheatonArts resident workers as well as
the chapter member/artists Gordon Smith and
David Graeber who collaborated on the gorgeous
lampwork weight made that day and auctioned off
when it was completed that day before our eyes.
Rob Campe was the lucky winner! A letter from
WheatonArts Kathy Nolan was read. She reported
a profit of $32,239 of which 10% usually goes to our
chapter for our sponsorship of the event and this
year would go to the Library Fund in memory of our
past president Stanley B. Kruger.
Our morning speaker was member John D. Hawley
of Hernando, Florida. His program was “Gillinder
and other glass factories of the 1876 Centennial
Exhibition”. John accompanied his well researched
slide show with his usual delightful descriptions and
asides. We always look for his cartoons and were not
disappointed! The event was held in Philadelphia’s
Fairmount Park and covered 285 acres. Of the six
principal buildings only one – Memorial Hall – exists
today. There was a railway station for transportation
to the site and around the exhibits. The exhibition
lasted for seven months and was described by
James D. McCabb as a way to show how far this
nation had come from its inception. Many of the
states had exhibits highlighting their industrial arts.
Most southern states were not represented as they
had not yet recovered from the Civil War. No mention
of the “war between the states “was allowed.
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guest dealer with be William Pitt from Fairhaven,
from June 5th-8th at the Astor Crowne Plaza Hotel.
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two weights,
Jim Lefever
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Andrew Scott
as well as some unique light stands with LED cool
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Toby Kruger
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Chicago to help him with his recreation. Those of us
unable to attend the Chicago affair hope to find out
more about this project at a future meeting.
FINAL NOTES
As Toby Kruger closed our meeting she exhorted us
as usual to BUY, BUY, BUY. Those of us who were
able to travel to the Annual Garden Party at Andrew
and Nancy Scott’s home were greeted with a feast
prepared by Toby’s nephew as well as a delightful
tour of the Scott’s ever growing and extraordinarily
diverse and museum quality collection(s).
Respectfully submitted,
Jill Bauersfeld, Recording Secretary
David Graeber
off and won by member Rob Campe. David began by
telling us about Batsto Village in New Jersey where
early American arts and crafts including Wheaton
Glass workers, a sawmill and grist mill as well as a
blacksmith and others are demonstrated with special
demonstrations on second Saturdays all summer.
David also spoke of his father-in-law Pop Pop Bill.
He has made and had on display today a weight that
they made together. Bill is an 82 year old machinist
who played in a band. The weight had lampwork
musical instruments within the design.
Bill Pitt at sales table
David had been asked to create a weight based on
the famous silkworm paperweight of unknown origin
from the 19th century that Paul Jokelson first bought
in France. It was bought in New York by Rubloff and
brought to Chicago. It was described by Eric Larson
in “The Devil in the White City” about the Chicago
World’s Fair. David made a trip to the Windy City to
prepare for his presentation creation. He showed us
a trailer on silkworms to be shown at the Chicago
Art Institute Weekend in September of this year. He
is doing a modern rendition of the silk worm weight.
He showed us with a power point demonstration
what he learned in his visit to the Selman Gallery in
Deedee Dohan, John Hawley, Andy Dohan, Jim &
Delania Lefever at Garden Party
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A Report on The Grounds
For Sculpture Event
By Leonard Kornit
As a wrap up of the 20th anniversary celebration of
the DVPCA, a group of members visited The Grounds
For Sculpture in Hamilton, NJ. Our guide and leader
was our own Don Formigli. His familiarity of GFS was
a tip that he has been a frequent visitor. He led us on
an amazing journey through the grounds.
A highlight of the visit to GFS is the sculptures by
Seward Johnson that realistically depict modern
people as well as characters from famous nineteenth
century paintings. It’s fun to see, from a distance,
a group of people having a picnic at the edge of a
pond, only to realize as you get closer that they are
Johnson sculptures.
Our group posing with Rousseau’s The Dream
There are over 270 sculptures on the grounds, most
of them outdoors, but some are indoors. There are
some very whimsical constructions such as a building
with a shower dripping real water and a sculpture of a
young lady soaping up while her clothes and towels
(all metal sculpture) hang nearby.
The grounds themselves are a meticulous mix of
wonderful plantings, unusual trees, gorgeous water
plants such as Lotus and Water Lily. I was awed by a
corridor made up of trees, reclaimed from a building
site and seemed to be healthy and happy. The
horticulture of the GFS is as much of an attraction as
the metal and masonry sculpture.
We had a very nice lunch at the cafeteria. When you
go to the GFS keep an eye out for the peacocks,
they seem to own the place. Check out their web site
www.groundsforsculpture.org.
Posing with ‘The Garden Party’
Don Formigli and friends
Touring The Grounds For Sculpture
PAGE 9
The Scramble
October 20, 2012
CALENDAR
Advance Meeting Dates, Guests and Related Events
Welcome to new member Charlotte Taylor from
Philadelphia and thanks to Leonard Kornit for
introducing her to DVPCA. Also welcome new member
Thomas Haunton from Wilmington, Mass. who collects
and writes about South Jersey glass. His first book is
Last Links to the Past – 20th Century South Jersey
Glass, Vol. 1, Clevenger Brothers to be followed by
Vol. 2. His membership application notes that he
also collects Millville rose and other South Jersey
paperweights. Welcome to another new member, Ruth
Ann Hebble from Exton, PA.
October 20, 2012: Fall Elections meeting, “Acquired
at 2012 Paperweight Fest and Chicago Paperweight
Weekend” Show and Tell.
Guest Dealer: Roger Jacobsen from Sandwich,
MA and Lubbock, TX.
Guest Artist: Ed Kachurik from New Kensington
PA.
January 26, 2013:
Guest Dealer: Leo Kaplan from New York City, NY.
Guest Artist: Ed Poore from Sagamore, MA.
For those members with internet, check out the newly
designed DVPCA web site, www.dvpaperweights.
org. Pat Ackerman has worked with our web designer
Kevin Kruger to finally bring it up to date with an all
new design. Now it has all the current newsletters
going back to 2001 and future meeting dates through
next year. There is current contact information for
anyone making inquiries about our group. We owe a
big thank you to Pat for taking on the responsibilities of
keeping the web site up to date.
April 20, 2013: TBA.
Guest Dealer: L.H. Selman from Chicago, IL.
June 5 - 8, 2013: Paperweight Collectors Association
Biannual Convention in New Orleans, LA.
July 20 - 21, 2013: TBA.
Guest Dealer: William Pitt from Fairhaven, MA.
October 19, 2013: TBA.
Guest Dealer: Ben Drabeck from Shutesbury, MA.
The Stanley B. Kruger Library Fund at Wheaton Arts
has gotten off to a good start with $3,224 contributed
from 2012 Paperweight Fest and $865 contributed
from the shadow box raffle held at our summer
meeting. Members may make individual tax deductible
donations by mailing checks to Wheaton Arts.
All Saturday Meetings at:
WILLIAMSOM’S RESTAURANT, HORSHAM, PA
SAVE THESE DATES AND PLAN TO ATTEND!
We will resume our normal raffle with the fall meeting
and are requesting donations for this regular
fundraising event.
Our morning program will be a Show and Tell of
weights acquired at Paperweight Fest and Chicago
Paperweight Weekend. Please bring your weights
for display and to provide an interesting program for
everyone.
DVPCA
Cat with glass
Santa Fe’s Tesuque Glassworks and
Shidoni Bronze Foundry
by Lee Arnold and Neal Demp
For the past four years, Neal has participated in
continuing medical education seminars in Santa Fe.
While he is sitting through morning seminars on such
topics as Psychopharmacology and Post Traumatic
Stress Disorder, Lee forces himself to hit the streets,
eating huevos ranchos with red and green chilis,
snacking on tasty little shortbread cookies called
biscochitos, and, well, shopping. It’s a burden he
suffers as a doctor’s “partner.”
Each October, we also arrange some free time to
see the sites. We recommend hiring a local guide,
Don Dietz from Pathfinders Customized Tours. Last
year, on our way back from visiting Georgia O’Keeffe
country north of Santa Fe including her Ghost
Ranch, we asked Don to stop by the glassworks in
the village of Tesuque. Tesuque Glassworks was
founded in 1975 by Charlie Miner. It is dedicated to
helping local artists and teaching the public about
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Fall Meeting Announcement
Saturday, October 20, 2012
LUNCHEON RESERVATIONS
October 20, 2012
At Williamson Restaurant, 200 Blair Mill Road (Route
611/Easton Road at Blair Mill Road) Horsham, PA.
Luncheon Choices @ $20 per person
(#) of Persons Attending
Located two traffic lights north of PA. Turnpike Exit
343 (Doylestown/Willow Grove).
Telephone (215) 675-5454
(#) Roast Tom Turkey, Savory Stuffing
and Gravy
9:00 AM Dealers and Artists setup
(#) Old Fashion Yankee Pot Roast,
Vegetable Sauce
$
10:00 AMPaperweight Fair with Guest Dealer
Roger Jacobsen from Sandwich, MA and
Lubbock, TX, Guest Artist Ed Kachurik
from New Kensington, PA and club
member’s items for sale.
Names
Please mail this tear off slip with your
selections and check to:
11:00 AM Acquired at 2012 Paperweight Fest
and Chicago Paperweight Weekend.
A show and tell of weights acquired at
both events this year.
DVPCA
c/o Don Formigli, Treasurer
455 Stonybrook Drive
Levittown, PA 19055
12 Noon Lunch – Sale of raffle tickets.
1:00 PM Business Meeting: Election of officers,
announcements, reports from floor, raffle,
etc.
1:30 PM Guest Speaker Ed Kachurik will give a
presentation about his work.
2:30 PM Paperweight Fair Continues
DVPCA
glass working. They are open to the public every
day and have glass blowing demonstrations. They
also have an apprentice program for emerging glass
artists. They had a beautiful array of glass for sale in
their gallery [see photo] and Lee picked up a plum
paperweight [photo] by Kay Hamilton. The studio cat
Winston (named after Churchill—you can see the
resemblance) was there to answer any questions
and give tours. One can also find Tesuque glass for
sale in the galleries of downtown Santa Fe.
Luncheon Total
NO LATER THAN OCTOBER 15, 2012
[see photo of very life-sized giraffes], as well as
watch 2000-degree molten bronze being poured into
ceramic shell molds. Shidoni is a Navajo word used
as a greeting to a friend.
We did not pick up the giraffes (planes leaving the
Santa Fe airport are small), but we did enjoy looking
around. So whether stocking up on glass, bronze or
chilis, Santa Fe is the perfect get-away.
Lee Arnold is a librarian, archivist and travel writer;
Neal Demp is a child psychiatrist. They live in
Philadelphia.
Within walking distance of the Glassworks is the
Shidoni Bronze Foundry. It bills itself as “one of the
greatest resources available for art collectors and
sculptors.” Shidoni is also an outdoor art gallery,
encompassing eight acres of sculpture gardens--as
well as a bronze art foundry. Visitors can view the
indoor art galleries which represent artists from all
over the country, stroll the gallery sculpture gardens
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