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 a