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  • Australian Carival Glass - visit the new Crown Crystal Carnival Glass Gallery to see four pages of wonderful Carnival Glass showing Australian flora and fauna.
  • Greener / Jobling is a famous English glassmaker. Did you know they also made some Carnival Glass? Read it here.
  • If you are interested in European Carnival Glass, follow this link to see some really great pieces. We recently compiled our "Top Ten European Carnival" pieces and our "Honourable Mentions" for the International Carnival Glass Association (ICGA - see Links), and we reproduce the two lists here, with many additional illustrations.
  • Millersburg's exterior patterns are masterful pieces of design and execution in Carnival Glass. See them here, identify them with Glen's brilliantly detailed line drawings.
  • We promised there would be more information on Big Pine Key Glass Works, Florida - here it is. Our grateful thanks to Dwight A. Pettit Jr. the son of one of the original founders for help in putting this article together. If anyone has any more information on this glassworks that they would like to share, please Contact us.
  • Political Carnival - check out the new additions to this section.
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  • Fish from Turkey? It's not a Christmas recipe - check it out.
  • Feel like a Quiz over the holiday period? Check out your Knowledge Base - the answers are now provided!
  • Have you heard of the Big Pine Key Glass Works? They made Carnival in the early 70s - scroll down to the President Truman flask.
  • More items have been added to the Sales page.
  • We launched our new website with the discovery of a new Carnival Glass maker - Matthew Turnbull, in England. Now more information on this maker and their Carnival has come to light, and we have updated the article.
  • Decorama - copies of Inwald's deco design, from South America.
  • Fenton's Flute - the first known example in celeste. It's in England!
  • See some rare and unusual candlesticks - Palms and Ribs, Rip van Winkle, Goodnight and more..... 
  • Contemporary and Modern Carnival themes - PoliticalWeird and yet.... Wonderful. Please contact us if you would like to send us your photos for these two sections.