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Ian Simmonds is an independent scholar and antiques dealer specializing in the history and interpretation of 19th Century American glass.
Ian also sells to advanced collectors and museums, both privately and at leading shows. He lives in Carlisle, Pennsylvania.
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References - The Lincoln presidential service
A compote cut in the Lincoln Presidential pattern but that descended in the family of its manufacturer, Christian Dorflinger, is now in the collection of the Metropolitan Museum of Art.
For more about the Lincoln service see:
| White House Glassware: Two Centuries of President Entertaining Jane Shadel Spillman. White House Historical Association, 1989. |
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| The first comprehensive survey of White House glassware. This book includes wonderful illustrations of most of the glass in the White House collection as well as documentation and photographs of the purchase and use of the glass. The Lincoln service is illustrated and discussed on pages 67-79. | ||