Hello, Folks!
It’s been a long time since I wrote something for Bob’s site, since I’ve been busy with my private practice, a new degree (yes, I’m back in school at the age of 71) and a ton of other things. Today I will write just a few lines.
After my father, Richard Hamon I, died, my step mother gave me a few Hamon communion glasses that were probably made in the early 1950s, if not the late 1940s. I am working on photographing them in good light and will put some on the site soon.
Also, I inherited a number of signed, collectors marbles, made by Bob, which my father helped with, often suggesting designs and innovative engineering processes. Together my uncle and father made a lot of marbles, and I am fortunate to own quite a few. Naturally, I am keeping some, but I am going to start offering them to serious marble collectors in the near future. They will go to their new homes at a reasonable price because I want to get these marbles out to the world. Yes, they are that good. And, believe me, they are worth it. Beautiful marbles is what they are. Beautiful in every way.
Soon I will write more on the communion glasses—a popular product with churches, prior to the art-glass phase of my uncle’s career—which occupied the Hamon family glass business for many years.
Stay tuned, folks!
—Richard Hamon II