boybob
04-03-2007, 06:31 AM
hiya - I'm Robert in Ft Lauderdale - a transplant from Baltimore Maryland HON!
all my friends and colleagues call me the "glassman" - and an expert - but none of us really are - I have been handling fine glass since the age of 9 and I am now 43 - so I do know a few things... I started with american elegant glass because so much of it is unsigned and it was easier to "pick" than other genres such as pottery where most of it was signed - I fell in LOVE with art glass early on - of all kinds - and have been plugging away at it ever since... kinda of the school of hard knocks - there weren't all these books available way back when- you learned by trial and error...
I am currently without camera - I closed up my "studio" and am only connecting from my laptop at home currently - and I need to go buy one of those convertor thingies because I have a dinosaur old mavica camera that only works on disc and my piccies are all locked up in my other pc that is not currently hooked up... I may have a few lingering images stored in my vendio site - I'll have to go take a peeky...
I will share some of my lovlies and a few of my mysteries as soon as I am able... happy to be aboard :)
all my friends and colleagues call me the "glassman" - and an expert - but none of us really are - I have been handling fine glass since the age of 9 and I am now 43 - so I do know a few things... I started with american elegant glass because so much of it is unsigned and it was easier to "pick" than other genres such as pottery where most of it was signed - I fell in LOVE with art glass early on - of all kinds - and have been plugging away at it ever since... kinda of the school of hard knocks - there weren't all these books available way back when- you learned by trial and error...
I am currently without camera - I closed up my "studio" and am only connecting from my laptop at home currently - and I need to go buy one of those convertor thingies because I have a dinosaur old mavica camera that only works on disc and my piccies are all locked up in my other pc that is not currently hooked up... I may have a few lingering images stored in my vendio site - I'll have to go take a peeky...
I will share some of my lovlies and a few of my mysteries as soon as I am able... happy to be aboard :)