11/29/2023 0 Comments Blue amethyst bowlIf you are asking questions through our Contact Us page then you can learn how we keep this information secure by clicking on our Contact Us Privacy Notice and if you are joining or renewing your Carnival Glass Society membership then you can find out how we manage and respect members’ personal data by reading our Membership Privacy Notice. If you are just visiting the website then you can find out more by clicking on our Website and Cookie Privacy Notice. We appreciate you viewing our website and respect your privacy in doing so. Northwood named his exotic new glass Golden Iris and it took the market by storm. It seems he realised that vision when in 1908, applying the knowledge he had gained from working in Stourbridge before he moved to the USA, he introduced a range of pressed and iridised glass items which enabled the less wealthy to bring a touch of luxury into their homes. A Stourbridge School of Art Success Story’ by James Measell, The Glass Cone, Autumn 2012. Hot on the heels of Frank L Fenton’s launch, was Harry Northwood, who more than twenty years earlier, in 1885, had written in reply to an article about his father John Northwood’s Portland Vase ‘But there must come a time when the taste of the multitude will be cultivated and the desire for rich, artistic and beautiful goods will predominate’. Fenton’s Iridill range started what is commonly known as the Prime or Classic period of Carnival Glass, the glass being made in and around the Ohio Valley from 1907 to the late 1920s and shipped, not only across America, but around the world.
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