Glass Message Board

Prospective & new members please read this forum first, especially if you have not received your activation email. For help in posting to the board please see http://www.glassmessages.com/pictures/get-started.html

For identification requests about any kind of GLASS except paperweights (see below for paperweights)

For information requests and discussions about Glass Paperweights

This forum is for the discussion of Glass Animals & Figurines as part of an ongoing research project to identify makers and patterns. It will cover glass animals and glass figurines made by any method: lamp-work, press-moulded, hot-worked, etc.

This forum is for the discussion of Glass Trinket Sets as part of an ongoing research project to identify makers and patterns of trinket sets and items that form sets, such as trays, powder pots, candlesticks & perfume bottles & atomisers

For information requests & discussions about glass from Belgium and the Netherlands (Holland)

For information requests & discussions about glass from Bohemia, Czechoslovakia, & Austria glass

For information requests & discussions about glass from England, Scotland, Wales, Ireland & the Channel Isles

For information requests & discussions about glass from Canada

For information requests & discussions about glass from China & Taiwan

For information requests & discussions about glass from Japan, Indonesia, Malaysia & other Far Eastern countries (excluding mainland China)

For information requests & discussions about glass from France

For information requests & discussions about glass from Germany

Glass made in Malta and the nearby islands. Makers include Mdina, MDG, Gozo, Phoenician, Mtarfa, Valletta.

For information requests & discussions about glass from Murano and Italy

For information requests & discussions about glass from New Zealand & Australia

For information requests & discussions about glass from Poland

For information requests & discussions about glass from Sweden, Norway, Finland & Denmark

For information requests & discussions about glass from America

Announcements of our members' publications and other glass books.

Reviews of glass books by board members.

Members are invited to post information about their Glass reference websites here.

Information about current and forthcoming glass fairs, exhibitions, other glass-related events and B&M auction sales. Please post details such as dates, venue, and description. Please do not post information about ebay or other on-line auctions or glass for sale, these belong in our Glass Market Place Forum, not here.

News about glassworks, glassmakers, closures, obituaries, and other glass news

You are invited to use the Glass Market Place for buying or selling glass. Please take the appropriate care in any such transaction as no guarantees are given by the Glass Message Board for any items offered for sale here. For both buyer and seller protection, the Board encourages sellers to list with a sales site with buyer and seller protection, such as eBay or their own established shop site, and then advertise via the Market Place. Please do not buy from a seller who contacts you privately unless you know and trust them well. The Board takes no responsibility for any issues arising from such transactions. To be fair to all members, posts offering items for sale in other forums will be moved here even if the post includes an ID request. B&M auctions should be listed in the Events forum not here.