Museum of Vintage Glasses of Negros Occidental sparks interest
I had been raring to stop by this museum located at Brgy. Sum-ag, Bacolod City for a long time already. It is located by the street where we pass by each time we go to Bacolod City. Time is always running out because either we pass by the place on an early morning with some errands to do or we pass by there when it is already nighttime and time to go home.
But
it was by luck that I was able to pass by the museum while the sky is
still with light and the drizzling of the rain stopped. The museum
accommodates visitors by appointment only and I was doubly lucky on that
day because the owner was around and so, on my first try to visit, I
was able to enter the place and chat with the collector and curator
Tomiko Casiano.
According
to Tomiko, he had visitors as far as Russia because he has some pieces
from Russia (check the blue chalice held by my mom in the picture
below), and the US (of course, because the pieces were from the
Depression Era of the US) as well as the local culinary school in
Pangasinan (They wanted to check out vintage and fine dinner wares).
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The
museum has a collection of 3,000 vintage glass pieces of almost all
kinds from glass napkin holders, lamps, decanters, dinner plates, and
goblets among others and in arranged by hues, from transparent to
jadite, white and yellow glasses, green, pink, cobalt, amber, yellow,
aquamarine and blue colors. They also come in various designs that
belongs to the depression years of the US which dates from 1904 to 1940.
The collection includes Jadite, Milk, Pressed glasses, Carnival
glasses, and Vaseline glasses.
Tomiko
explained that the color of a real vintage glass does not fade even in
prolong use. He collected the glasses during his active working years in
US as floral designer for clients in the Beverly Hills. His love for
finding great vase for his flowers grew into collecting vintage pieces
when he was gifted with beautiful pieces and later he bought some pieces
from estate sales and auctions. He also bragged about the pieces gifted
to him by his ancestors.
Among the interesting items in the collection is the very thick Carnival Bowl that almost looks like a helmet with this orangey exciting color as well as the miniature copy of 1912 Ford car which holds a whiskey decanter and some shot glasses at the back.
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The blue corner.
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The Carnival Glass has the glittering multi-color shades that we find in our old marbles.
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The Chalice from Russia which a Russian Ambassador personally visited here once.
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The minimalist front ground with sculptures found in nature and some recycled industrial wastes.
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