The cylinder is a relatively uncommon pre-Pro glass form, accounting for less than 2% of the total number of known glasses.  75% of these include a Truog signature or are have been linked to Truog,  suggesting that they were preferred for application of his designs.  Given that they avoid having to compensate for the distortion associated with etching a tapered glass [Figure 8 ], one can easily understand why this might be so.

The Green Brier glass at left [Figure 9] is yet one more example of a cylinder being etched with a horseshoe-barrel-grain-stalk design.  While there has never been a suggestion that this glass might have Truog origins, the coincidence is striking.  This glass was issued by Chas Nelson of Nashville, TN and is in the Ralph Van Brocklin collection.

Figure 8.
Creating a label for a common shot requires that the artist adjust the design to compensate for the reduction in area as the glass tapers down from rim to base.  In practice, this meant designing on an arc, as seen in this original Truog sketch for the 1905 Souvenir glass.

Reproduced from Murschell, 2004, with permission

 

 

 

 

Figure 9.
Courtesy and copyright of  Ralph Van Brocklin, 2005.

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