New Martinsville Vanity Items1920s & Beyond - Kenn & Margaret Whitmyer (2022)

Description: This book details the New Martinsville Glass Manufacturing Co. and Viking Glass Company vanity item production from the 1920s through the 1980s.The book is arranged into chapters. All three divisions generally coincide with major changes in the styles of glassware produced from one period to another. It should be noted there may be a short time of transition between two eras. Part 1 is a presentation of vanity item production from about 1924 to 1930. Part 2 is a study of the types of vanity items made from about 1930 until 1940. Part 3 covers general line vanity items made from1940, and through the transition to Viking, until the plant closing in the late 1980s. The book encompasses dresser sets, perfume bottles, vanity sets, powder jars, ring trays, guest sets, night lights, finger lamps, and more, including production for Dorothy Thorpe, DeVilbiss, and Irice. 134 pages, fully illustrated. Published by The Glass Flakes Press, ISBN 978-1-7341619-8-4. This book 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 catalog reprints and 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. They 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 be refunded $4.00 from the price of this book after payment. (Discount applies only to the first copy of each title; subsequent copies of the same title must be purchased at regular price.) 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. Powered by eBay Turbo Lister The free listing tool. List your items fast and easy and manage your active items.

Price: 29.95 USD

Location: Weston, West Virginia

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