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Carnival Glass from Europe eBooks - First Edition and our newly released Part Two.
Part Two
Carnival glass from Europe Part Two
This richly illustrated 135-page eBook is packed full of information. Part Two is the perfect accompaniment to our First Edition, covering 150 patterns from European makers, around one third of which are newly discovered. The other patterns in this comprehensive volume feature fresh, updated information on recently found shapes, colours, contextual research, and insights on around 100 patterns in our First Edition.

An additional feature is the book-within-a-book - the Sowerby Carnival Supplement - unique and comprehensive coverage of all patterns, context, contemporaneous and archive information from their Carnival Glass years.

​Unmissable reading!

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Carnival Glass from Europe Part Two eBook
First Edition
Carnival Glass from Europe First Edition
​A phenomenal volume, the culmination of eighteen years of our collecting, documenting and researching Carnival Glass made throughout Europe.

​Almost 300 pages long, this eBook covers 800 Carnival Glass patterns from over 50 glassmakers throughout Europe; an astonishing amount of previously undisclosed information about the factories, designers, their history and their locations. Patterns are meticulously 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 truly extensive in its coverage!

An excellent encyclopedia of Carnival Glass from Europe.

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Carnival Glass from Europe First Edition eBook

Our Carnival Glass and pressed glass adventures began in the 1990s, when we started writing articles for glass and antiques magazines such as the Glass Collector, and we also launched our own Carnival Glass journal (“NetworK”) which we published to a worldwide readership for eight years. 

We then took on a major project - to research, write and illustrate three ground-breaking, unique books about Carnival Glass, for the renowned publishers Schiffer Books. The result: "Carnival Glass, The Magic and The Mystery" (expanded and fully revised, 2009), "A Century of Carnival Glass" (2001), and "The Art of Carnival Glass" (2004). 

During 2005-08 we published a series of three CDs on Sowerby glass.

From 2011 onwards we have focused on researching and publishing a trilogy of 3 eBooks on Carnival Glass made in Finland, Sweden and Norway.

Glen also took time out from writing and researching Carnival Glass to write a very personal and emotional true story about the Royal Air Force in World War II - "A Brief Sweet Life".

Most recently, we have started authoring short education eBooks, which are FREE to download, as part of our "All About Carnival" series. Here is the download page: FREE educational Carnival Glass eBooks.

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Carnival Glass from Sweden (Eda, Elme, Fåglaviks, Hovmantorps) eBook
e-book


Carnival Glass The Magic & the Mystery
Carnival Glass book
Riihimäki - Carnival Glass from 
Finland eBook
e-book


The Art of Carnival Glass
Carnival Glass book
Carnival Glass from Karhula, Iittala, Høvik Glassverk eBook
e-book


A Century of Carnival Glass
Carnival Glass book


    Brief Sweet Life by Glen Rose

Brief Sweet Life
A poignant and true story of the wartime fortunes of an RAF 50 Squadron Lancaster crew. It is a testament to the many thousands of ordinary men and women whose lives were made extra-ordinary through the acts of war.
 
This is their legacy....This is their story.

Epitaph - Ralph Wilson Gilbert, Mid-Upper Gunner

My brief sweet life is over, my eyes no longer see,
No summer walks - no Christmas Trees - no pretty girls for me,
I've got the chop, I've had it, my nightly ops are done,
Yet, in another hundred years, I'll still be twenty-one.
Brief Sweet Life

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