Agree greenacres!! Today everyone wants to buy everything from Walmart, most art today is junk, furniture today is junk, I think it takes many years of study and all of the great masters of this art to study from are dead and gone like you said!! So sad as it is beautiful!! Many of the great glass artist from long ago took much of their glass making secrets to the grave with them, even apprentices where not privy to all techniques and methods!!