title: Elegant Glass with Corn Flower: Imperial Candlewick, Heisey, Tiffin & More (Schiffer Book for Collectors)
author:  Walter Lemiski 
description: Walter Lemiski is the Director of the Canadian Depression Glass Association. He has given lectures and identification sessions on vintage glass at the Dufferin County Museum and Archive's annual Corn Flower Festival, the Canadian Antique Collector's Association, and for numerous other collector associations.
zlib_text: THE GLASS FLOWER
  George R.R. Martin
   
  A DF Books NERDs Release
   
  Once, when I was just a girl in the first flush of my true youth, a young boy gave me a glass flower as a
  token of his love. 
  He was a rare and precious boy, though I confess that I have long forgotten his name. So too was the
  flower he gave me. On the steel and plastic worlds where I have spent my lives, the ancient glassblower's
  art is lost and forgotten, but the unknown artisan who had fashioned my flower remembered it well. My
  flower has a long and delicate stem, curved and graceful, all of fine thin glass, and from that frail support
  the bloom explodes, as large as my fist, impossibly exact. Every detail is there, caught, frozen in crystal
  for eternity; petals large and small crowding each other, bursting from the center of the blossom in a slow
  transparent riot, surrounded by a crown of six wide drooping leaves, each with its tracery of veins intact,
  each unique. It was as if an alchemist had been wandering through 