After spending many years with the tens of thousands of pages of archival material that made this website possible, we have started the process again. This time, however, our focus is on the matters of interest that never became part of the database project.

The "Archival Goodies" section will be the repository for all things of interest that we discover now and in the future. As you might agree, we hope this section is never completed.

Our first topic (sub-tab) is called "Changing the Pot." This is a photographic sequence showing the process of changing out a damaged or worn-out clay pot in which the glass-making ingredients are melted to make your favorite vase or bowl. Also featured are copies of the original blueprints, from 1904, showing the entire furnace and clay pot designs. These are works of art by themselves. They will also appear in the Download Center so they can be viewed in a much larger format for those engineers among us.

Make it a point to periodically go into the "Archival Goodies" section to see what has been added.

Marion and Sandy
Article #130807

You may have noticed that we have been doing some fine-tuning throughout the website since the launch. Well, we just made a major improvement to the way we present the Catalog Page images to you.

After testing and living with the website for a few weeks, we noticed that when we went to enlarge the Catalog Page images from within the Subscriber sections, our images started to pixilate (get fuzzy) too soon, and it was almost impossible to read the small print. Upon investigation we discovered that the website software automatically restricted the level of resolution we needed to be satisfied, even though we uploaded the files at the proper resolution.

We solved the problem by including all the Catalog Page images, in a higher-resolution JPEG format, within file folders that can be directly downloaded to your computer from the PGKC Download Center. This gives you immediate access to more than 1,100 Pairpoint Catalog Pages that you can view in great detail and manipulate using your computer's image software.

Can you imagine, as a Pairpoint Glass collector, owning and having at your fingertips 1,100+ original factory catalog pages? Even if you could find that many, you would pay a price far, far greater than our nominal Subscriber Fee.

So please visit the Download Center, located under the Subscriber tab, and download the three new Catalog Page folders to your computer.