Amberina & the Libbey Glass Co. Catalog, Circa 1917. This is Monograph No. 75 in the glass study series of the West Virginia Museum of  American Glass, Ltd. This volume reprints an important catalog from circa 1917 illustrating the pieces offered when Libbey re-introduced its famed Amberina, shading from a rich ruby red to violet, for a brief period of time. Also included are full color photographs of five items from a contemporary collection of pieces found in this catalog. With a foreword by Tom Bredehoft.

17 pages, fully illustrated, including some color. Payment by PayPal, money order, or personal check. Domestic postage is $3.50 for the first publication, $1.00 for each additional publication. For overseas shipping costs, please contact the seller.

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.

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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.