A Warm Welcome to our Carnival Glass Website!

​Totally dedicated to Carnival Glass
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​The information here on our website is the result of over thirty years of collecting and researching the fascinating world of Carnival Glass. We have amassed an amazing amount of information and hundreds of pictures, and we are adding to it on almost a daily basis. There is something here for everyone, from beginners to experienced collectors, covering over one hundred years of Carnival Glass production and organised collecting around the world.
For a Quick and Easy Guide to all the patterns on the website, click here: A to Z Pattern Index
Carnival Glass Galleries
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See hundreds of wonderful pictures of Carnival Glass in our unique Picture Galleries. Perfect for pattern IDs and for appreciating truly breath-taking Carnival Glass from every maker around the world.
​Carnival Glass NetworK
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​NetworK is totally devoted to Carnival Glass, bringing you all the latest news, discoveries and feature articles. We look at Carnival Glass through the eyes of the people who made it, marketed, advertised and sold it,
.. and of course, the public who made it so incredibly popular.
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​​​NetworK is on Facebook: it's the friendly and relaxing place to be "at home” with collectors worldwide. A welcoming place where Carnival is featured, discussed, identified, puzzled over, and appreciated – 24 x 7!
​Carnival Glass Times​
​Featuring the Stories Behind the Glass adding life and colour to the Carnival Glass World. Plus "Sell it to me!" and "Read All About It!"
​Carnival Glass Makers
Each Classic Carnival Glass maker has their own Master Page, with links to everything about them. All in one place.
​Patterns, Colours, Shapes
The essential Collectors Facts on Carnival Glass patterns from all around the world, and the myriad of Carnival Glass colours.
​All About Carnival Glass
What is Carnival Glass? 
Our FAQs and our New Feature - Myth Buster! Explore this most amazing glass.
Blast from the Past
Stories from the Past, Carnival Glass Pioneers, and Unsung Heroes.
Read All About It!
Carnival as it was shown in wonderful ads from all around the world.
Sell It To Me!
Carnival as it was promoted, marketed and sold around the world.
All About Vases
Carnival vases around the world - in all shapes, sizes and colours.
Bob Smith's Museum
The story of the Bob Smith Tumbler Collection and virtual Museum.
Carnival Glass from Europe, our newest e-book is now available!
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​Almost 300 pages long, covering an astonishing range of almost 800 Carnival Glass patterns from over 50 glassmakers throughout Europe. ​Patterns are identified with photos, catalogue illustrations, the reported colours and shapes, factory attributions and the original makers' name where known. ​It is a visual delight and comprehensive in its coverage!

All you need to know about Carnival Glass from Europe in one place.
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​For full details of this new e-book and to buy it, go here: Carnival Glass from Europe e-book
​​Bob Smith and his Carnival Tumbler Museum

​Bob Smith was our dear friend, who sadly passed away in November 2017. He was a dedicated researcher and collector, with whom we worked collaboratively over very many years – as we have explained in our “NetworK: The Story Behind The Stories”. Bob built the finest and most comprehensive Carnival Glass tumbler collection in the world. It was his life. His dearest and often-expressed wish was to keep it intact, as an inspirational and educational legacy for future generations of glass collectors : “The Bob Smith Tumbler Collection”.
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Bob honoured us with the gift of his beloved Tumbler Collection, and we gave him our solemn promise to take care of it and keep it together, in accordance with his clearly stated wishes. However, in distressing circumstances, the tumbler collection was removed from our control. We were prevented from fulfilling our promise to Bob. We also promised Bob that we would set up an online Tumbler Museum in his memory, and it gives us considerable comfort that he was able to see his Museum take shape. When we showed it to him, he wrote: "Absolutely Beautiful. I don't have enough words to tell you how pleased and happy with what you have done … I just can't come up with all of the wonderful words it deserves”.

Many of the tumblers in the Museum are Bob’s own photos. When he took them, the technology produced only low resolution images, and our intention was to upgrade and add to them - to produce a comprehensive "museum quality" record of his unique collection. Sadly, despite promises made to us, we were denied even the opportunity to do this.
Honouring Bob Smith
The Tumbler Museum Tour

​The sale and brutal dismemberment of Bob’s entire collection in June 2019 is tragic. We tried to prevent it; it was the absolute opposite of what Bob always told us (and many others) that he wanted - it is a shameful denial of Bob's wish that his legacy collection would be preserved intact for future generations.
All the material, photographs, images, drawings and written articles, on this website are Copyright ©.

Any unauthorised use of our material on this website will constitute an infringement of Copyright and Intellectual Property, and we take infringement of our work very seriously. Read more - click on the image on the right.

Jim & Jan Seeck provide one of the best-known specialist Carnival Glass auction services.
They hold regular online and physical, in-person auctions including ones held at Carnival Glass club conventions.
​Bid online, in person, and by call-in or write-in bids.​
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​We also get very excited about Pressed Glass from the late 1800s - early 1900s period, and we are developing a Glass Potpourri feature about it: there may even be a link to Carnival Glass (but that's not always essential). Check it out with this link to Glass Potpourri. 

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