Glass Societies and Collectors' Organisations

The following lists some UK based societies and collectors clubs that specialise in glass.

• Antique Wine Bottles and Black Glass Collectors Club

• Association for the History of Glass, http://www.historyofglass.org.uk 

• Association Internationale pour l'Histoire du Verre, General Secretary, Hilary Cool, 16 Lady Bay Road, West Bridgford, Nottingham NG2 5BJ, tel: 0115 9819 065, http://www.aihv.org/ 

• Avon Magpies Club, tel 0239 2642393, e-mail wendy@avonmagpies.fsnet.co.uk (Avon perfume bottles and collectables) 

• British Glass Maufacturers' Confederation, http://www.britglass.org.uk/ 

• The British Society of Master Glass Painters, http://www.bsmgp.org.uk/

• British Society of Scientific Glassblowers, http://www.bssg.co.uk/

• Caithness Paperweights Collectors Society, Caithness Glass Limited, Inveralmond, Perth PH1 3TZ, tel 01738 637373 http://www.caithnessglass.co.uk/

• Cambridge Paperweight Circle, renamed in 2004, see Paperweight Collectors Circle

• The Carnival Glass Society, PO Box 14, Hayes, Middlesex UB3 5NU, www.carnivalglasssociety.co.uk

• Cloud Glass Collectors, http://www.cloudglass.com/

• Contemporary Glass Society, c/o Broadfield House Glass Museum, Compton Drive, Kingswinford, West Midlands DY6 9NS, http://www.cgs.org.uk/

• The Friends of Broadfield House, c/o Broadfield House Glass Museum, Compton Drive, Kingswinford, West Midlands DY6 9NS, tel: 01384 812745

• The Glass Association, c/o Broadfield House Glass Museum, Compton Drive, Kingswinford, West Midlands DY6 9NS, http://www.glassassociation.org.uk/

• Glass Beadmakers UK, http://www.gbuk.org/

• The Glass Circle, http://www.glasscircle.org/

• Glass Line, Society for Hot Glass Artists, http://www.glassline.net/, (website includes a large links page)

• Glass Museum, New Zealand, http://www.glass.co.nz/. (A virtual 'museum' with lists of articles and a message board)

• Guild of Glass Engravers, http://www.gge.org.uk/

• International Perfume Bottle Association, 396 Croton Road, Wayne, PA 19087 USA, http://www.perfumebottles.org/ and UK branch http://www.ipba-uk.co.uk/

• Keith Murray Collectors Club - http://www.keithmurray.co.uk/

• Northern Paperweight Society, http://www.northernpaperweightsociety.co.uk/

• Paperweight Collectors Circle, PO Box 941, Comberton, Cambridge PDO CB3 7GQ, http://www.paperweightcollectorscircle.org.uk/

• Pressed Glass Collectors Club, 4 Bowshot Close, Castle Bromwich, West Midlands B36 9UH, tel: 0121 6814872

• Scottish Glass Society, http://www.scottishglasssociety.com/

• Society of Glass Technology, Don Valley House, Savile Street East, Sheffield S4 7UQ, tel: 0114 263 4455, http://www.societyofglasstechnology.org.uk/cgi-bin/open.cgi?page=index