AMERICAN CERAMIC SOCIETY ANNUAL MEETING DRINKING GLASSES

A set of glasses that I have enjoyed collecting is the American Ceramic
Society Annual Meeting glasses. This society has been having meetings for
over a hundred years. I do not know how long they have made glasses for
these meetings, but I do have a stemmed wine glass from the 1988 annual
meeting that has "50 years of glasses" on it. The earliest glass that I have
seen dates from 1943.

I received a nice email from one of the persons who work for the society
that informed me the glasses are not longer made for the meetings.

The glasses generally follow a similar style, often with the seal of
the society, the information about the date and location of the annual meeting,
and a graphic that ties in to the city where the meeting was held.
The early glasses & 1962, 68 & 71 glasses, seem to explain the Drakenfeld tie in,
this company must make the colors used in the silkscreening of the glasses.

I hope to add some pictures of my glasses in the future. I am interested
in getting more American Ceramic Society glasses and have a few to trade.

An email correspondent sent this information to me 
concerning the American Ceramic Society:

they started off as mainly manufacture-oriented for electrical parts,
bricks/construction, practical objects, like dinnerware, etc.
As technology progressed, partially thanks to the early guys,
they started to see wider applications for ceramics, like in medicine
(metal/ceramic joints), space shuttle tiles, aeronautics, computers, etc.
This is obviously why the early glasses have gold rims and the meetings
were held in relatively small places compared to the later ones
that had many more hundreds of participants.

The significance of the whole drakotherm paint job was to advertise
their technology of painted glass, which involved some of those early ceramic technologies
(it's all silicates, so the relationship between ceramic, glass, and aluminum silicate
(the bridge between metal and ceramic, a substance mastered by my grandfather, mullite)
is very close). For a few years there, drakenfeld made a few glasses
for the Pacific coast meetings.
(THANKS, ZAC!)

I have forty nine (49) glasses in my collection. The description is from top to bottom.
The colors on the glass are noted in (parentheses).
The design of the glass is described in CAPITAL LETTERS.

45th Annual Meeting American Ceramic Society (seal) April 18-22, 1943 Hotel William Penn Pittsburg, Pennsylvania souvenir from Drakenfeld & Co. Inc. SEAL Design (white/gold rim/safedge glass) 46th Annual Meeting American Ceramic Society (seal) April 2-5, 1944 Hotel William Penn Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania Souvenir of Drakenfeld & Co, Inc. SEAL Design (orange/Anchor Hocking marked safedge glass) Welcome to Pittsburgh (seal) The O. Hommel Co. 1944 SEAL Design (blue/Libbey style safedge glass) 48th Annual Meeting American Ceramic Society (seal) April 28-May 1, 1946 Hotel Statler Buffalo, New York Souvenir from B. F. Drakenfeld & Co., Inc. SEAL Design (orange/Libbey safedge glass) 49th Annual Meeting American Ceramic Society (seal) April 21-25, 1947 Convention Hall, Atlantic City, N. J. Souvenir from B. F. Drakenfeld & Co., Inc. SEAL Design (green/Libbey safedge glass) Fall Meeting American Ceramic Society (seal) Pittsburgh Section Nemacolin - Country - Club September 19, 1947 blue and gold SEAL in white FRAME Design (White,red,blue,black,gold. Gold rim) 50th Annual Meeting American Ceramic Society 1899 (seal) 1948 Palmer House Chigago - Ill. April 25 - 30 - 1948. Souvenir from B. F. Drakenfeld & Co. Incorporated ROUND LETTER WITH SEAL design (red,white,gold/gold trim heavy btm glass) 52nd Annual Meeting American Ceramic Society (seal) April 23-27, 1950 Hotel Statler New York City Souvenir from B. F. Drakenfeld & Co., Inc. (paragraph on back about "DRAKOTHERM" printing process) SMALL GLASSBLOWERS & RIBBONS Design (white,blue/safedge glass) 53rd Annual Meeting American Ceramic Society (seal) April 22-26, 1951 Palmer House Chicago, Ill Souvenir from B. F. Drakenfeld & Co., Inc. This Tumbler was printed with colors containing Drakotherm SMALL GLASSBLOWERS & INTERSECTING LINES Design (white,red,gold rim/safedge glass) 4th Pacific Coast Regional Meeting (seal) Oct - 24 - 26 - 1951. - Hotel Wilton - Long Beach, Calif. Souvenir from Drakenfeld & Co. , Inc. Fun in the Sun "51" This tumbler was printed with colors containg "Drakotherm" Pacific Coast Agents Braun Corp. Los Angeles - 21 Braun-Knecht-Heiman Co. San Fransisco-19. WHITE SCROLL DESIGN WITH SEAL Design (white, blue, gold rim)

54th Annual Meeting American Ceramic Society (Seal) Hotel WM PENN Pittsburgh PA April 27- May 1 1952 Souvenir from Drakenfeld & Co, Inc. This tumbler was printed with colors containing Drakotherm SEAL IN SHIELD WITH RIBBON Design (white,blue,gold rim/safedge glass) 55th Annual Meeting American Ceramic Society (seal) Hotel Statler New York, NY April 26-30 1953 Souvenir from B.F. Drakenfeld & Co. Inc. This tumbler was printed with colors containing Drakotherm (seal) NEW YORK CITY SKYLINE/BUILDINGS/BRIDGES/STATUE OF LIBERTY design (red, white, gold rim) 56th Annual Meeting (seal) April 23, 1954 Palmer House Chicago This tumbler was printed by means of a screen stencil with 196 mesh nitex stencil fabric coated with nusol photo solution Souvenir from B. F. Drakenfeld & Co., Incorporated SMALL GLASSBLOWERS Design (white,green,gold rim/safedge glass)

57th Annual Meeting (seal) The American Ceramic Society April 24-28, 1955 Netherland Plaza Hotel CinCinnati, Ohio Souvenir from B. F. Drakenfeld & Co., Inc. GLASSBLOWERS Design (black, white, gold rim) 58th Annual Meeting (seal) The American Ceramic Society April 22-26, 1956 Hotel Statler New York City Souvenir from Drakenfeld SEALS IN BLACK SQUARE WITH BLACK COLUMNS Design (Maroon, white, black) American Ceramic Society 59th Annual Meeting May 5th to 9th 1957 The Statler Hilton Dallas, Texas Souvenir from Drakenfeld & Co., Inc. (seal) I SAY Wecome Pardna' COWBOY WITH LARIAT IN TEXAS STATE OUTLINE Design (Red, white) American Ceramic Society 60th Annual Meeting (seal) in bottle outline Hotel Penn Sheraton Pittsburgh, PA. April 27 - May 1 1958 Drakotherm souvenir from B.F. Drakenfeld & Co., Inc. GATEWAY TO THE FUTURE PITTSBURGH BICENTENNIAL 1958-59 design (white,turquoise, gold rim) 61st Annual Meeting (Seal) Palmer House Chicago, IL May 17-21 1959 This Tumbler was printed with colors containing Drakotherm Souvenir from Drakenfeld Co, Inc. SEALS IN YELLOW DIAMONDS design (maroon,yellow,gold rim) The American Ceramic Society 62nd Annual Meeting (seal) Bellevue-Stratford Hotel April 24-18, 1960 Philadelphia, PA Drakotherm Souvenir from Drakenfeld GLASSBLOWERS design (blue, white, gold rim) 63rd Annual Meeting (seal) The American Ceramic Society The Royal York Hotel Toronto, Ontario Canada April 23-27, 1961 This Tumbler was printed with colours containing Drakotherm Souvenir from Drakenfeld SEALS IN WHITE CIRCLES WITH SMALL CONTAINERS TOP & BTM design (Red, white, gold rim) The American Ceramic Society Annual 64th Meeting Commodore Hotel New York City April 29 - May 3 1962 (seal) (glass blowers) This Tumbler was printed with colours containing Drakotherm souvenir from Drakenfeld HISTORIC BOTTLE PROFILES Design (white, matte green,gold rim) (Federal mark) American Ceramic Society 65th Annual Meeting Hotel Penn Sheridan Pittsburgh, PA April 28 - May 2 1963 (seal) This tumbler was printed with colors containing DRAKOTHERM Souvenir from Drakenfeld BLOCK SIGN WITH BOTTLE OUTLINE Design (yellow,white,gold rim) 66th Annual Meeting April 18 to 23, 1964 Palmer House Chicago Illinois American Ceramic Society (Seal) This tumbler was printed with colors containing Drakotherm Souvenir from Drakenfeld BOTTLE OUTLINE IN WHITE PANEL Design (white,blue,gold rim,Federal mark) The American Ceramic Society Annual 67th Meeting Bellevue Stratfoed Hotel Philadelphia, PA May 1st to 6th, 1965 This Tumbler was printed with colours containing Drakotherm souvenir from Drakenfeld GOLD SEAL IN BLACK SQUARE WITH BOTTLES AT BOTTOM design (Black, tan, gold) The American Ceramic Society Annual 68th Meeting Sheraton - Park Hotel Washington, D. C. May 7th to 12th, 1966 (Seal) (Glassblower Design) This tumbler was printed with colours containing Drakotherm Souvenir from Drakenfeld MANY VASES Design (blue, white, gold rim,Federal Mark) The American Ceramic Society 69th Annual Meeting (seal) Americana Hotel New York City, New York April 29 to May 4, 1967 This tumbler was printed with colours containing Drakotherm Souvenir from Drakenfeld BLACK LATTICE WITH VASES AND POTS Design (black,gold rim) The American Ceramic Society 70th Annual Meeting (seal) This tumbler was printed with colors containing Drakotherm souvenir from Drakenfeld Conrad Hilton Hotel . Chicago . April 20 to 25,1968 BOTTLES design (red,white,orange,black,yellow,brown) The American Ceramic Society 71st Annual Meeting & Exposition (seal) Sheraton - Park Hotel Washington, D.C. May 3-8, 1969 Souvenir of 100th Anniversary from Drakenfeld This tumbler was printed with colors containing Drakotherm Hercules FOUR WASHINGTON DC BUILDINGS Design (black,gold,white,heavy bottom glass) The American Ceramic Society 72nd Annual Meeting & Exposition (seal) Philadelphia Civic Center and Sheraton Hotel Souvenir from Drakenfeld Hercules Philadelphia, PA May 2-7, 1970 EAGLES AND STARS Design (red,white,blue, heavy bottom, Libbey glass) The American Ceramic Society 73rd Annual Meeting & Exposition (seal) From Drakenfeld (logo) Hercules (in vertical letters EXPOSITION|COLORS WITH DRAKOTHERM|CONVENTION|SOUVENIR) Conrad Hilton Hotel April 24-29, 1971 BOTTLES design (yellow,green,white,gold rim) 74th Annual Meeting and Exposition The American Ceramic Society (seal) Sheraton Park Hotel Washington, D.C. May 6 -11, 1972 HERCULES Souvenir from Drakenfeld SEAL/HERCULES WITH FROSTED BAND design (gold, frosted) Seventy - Sixth Annual Meeting and Exposition (Seal) Hercules Souvenir from Drakenfeld Conrad Hilton Hotel * Chicago, Illinois * April 28 - May 2, 1974 SEAL HUNG FROM RED RIBBON Design (red,white,blue, heavy bottom glass) Seventy-Seventh Annual Meeting and Exposition (seal) Hercules Souvenir from Drakenfeld May 3-8 1975 Washington DC Sheraton Park 77 Design (white, blue, grey, heavy bottom glass) 78th Annual Meeting and Exposition The American Ceramic Society Cincinnati * May 1-6, 1976 in American Bicentennial Year Netherland Hilton Hotel Hurcules incorporated (seal) Souvenir from Drakenfeld 78 IN STARS & STRIPES design (Red, White and Blue on frosted panel) American Ceramic Society Conrad Hilton Hotel Chicago Illinois 79th Annual Meeting April 23-28, 1977 Hercules Incorporated Souvenir from Drakenfeld SKYLINE & WAVES design (Orange lines, black and aqua blue, heavy bottom glass) 81st Annual Meeting & Esposition Netherland Hotel, Cincinnati April 18 - May 2, 1979 (seal) Souvenir from Drakenfeld PADDLEWHEEL STEAMBOAT design (antique brown on tan smooth background) American Ceramic Society 84th Annual Meeting Concinnati, Ohio May 2-5, 1982 Cincinnati Convention/Exposition Center BLUE CURLING RIBBON Design (blue.heavy bottom glass) (seal) American Ceramic Society 85th Annual Meeting April 24-27, 1983 Conrad Hilton Hotel Chicago, Illinois A Souvenir from Drakenfeld YELLOW FLOWER design (White, Yellow, Brown) (seal) American Ceramic Society 86th Annual Meeting April 29 - May 1, 1984 Lawrence Convention Center, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. GEOMETRIC design (Yellow, Blue) American Ceramic Society 87th meeting, May 5-7, 1985 (seal) Convention and Exposition Center Cincinatti, Ohio Souvenir from Drakenfeld CINCINATTI design (Yellow, Green) Drakenfeld Chicago (seal) American Ceramic Society April 27-30, 1986 88th Annual Meeting The Hyatt Regency Hotel Chicago, Illinois CHICAGO design (Turquoise, Dark Green) American Ceramic Society 89th Annual Meeting April 26-29, 1987 David L. Lawrence Convention Center Pittsburgh Pennsylvania (seal) Pittsburgh Drakenfeld SEAL IN TRIANGLE design (Yellow, Black) 50 Years of Glasses 90th Annual Meeting May 1-4, 1988 Cincinnati, Ohio DRAKENFELD (seal) GOLD SEAL design (gold on stemmed wine glass) Indianapolis, Indiana American Ceramic Society 91st Annual Meeting April 23 - 27, 1989 Indiana Convention Center Drakenfeld CHECKERED FLAG design (Red, White, Black) American Ceramic Society 92nd Annual Meeting April 22-26 1990 The Dallas Convention Center Dallas, Texas TEXAS BOOT & HAT design (peach, maroon, green) Drakenfeld American Ceramic Society 93rd Annual Meeting April 29 - May 1, 1991 Convention and Exposition Center Cincinatti, Ohio RIBBON & BOW design (Light Green, Blue) Cerdec Drakenfeld American Ceramic Society 96th Annual Meeting and Exposition April 24 - 27, 1994 Indiana Convention Center Indianapolis, Indiana PACE CAR design (Blue, Yellow, Black) American Ceramic Society 98th Annual Meeting and Exposition April 14-17, 1998 Indiana Convention Center Indianapolis, Indiana CERDEC STOCK CAR photo design (Yellow, Aquamarine, black, black & white photo) American Ceramic Society (seal) Founded 1899 GOLD SEAL design (gold) - no date or location heavy bottom safedge glass
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