Gay LeCleire Taylor and Bob Banford talk about Doug Merritt and Barry Sautner of Vandermark Merritt, discussing topics such as Vandermark’s production style and Sautner’s eventual independent work. Oral history interview with Gay LeCleire Taylor by Barb Elam, conducted via telephone, March 9, 2018, Bard Graduate Center. Oral history interview with Bob Banford by Barb Elam, conducted via telephone, December 19, 2019, Bard Graduate Center. Clip length: 01:14.

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Clip 1: Glass Historian Gay LeCleire Taylor talks about Doug Merritt and Barry Sautner. Clip length: 00:48.

Gay LeCleire Taylor: Doug Merritt’s family had this place called Liberty Village in Flemington, New Jersey which had a glassblowing facility and then Doug Merritt’s business changed its name to Vandermark Merritt. Vandermark Merritt. And I don’t think anything’s being blown anymore, but they made a lot of Art Nouveau Tiffany-style glass but also did early reproductions of lily pad pitchers and early American-style glass for the Met [Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, New York] in their shop, and so they did early American glass and Tiffany-style glass. And Barry Sautner worked for Doug and then sort of branched out on his own doing these incredible carved, sandblasted, carved pieces. Just incredible work Barry Sautner ended up doing, and he’s gone too.

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Clip 2: Bob Banford discusses Doug Merritt and Barry Sautner of Vandermark Merritt. Clip length: 00:22.

Bob Banford: On the end there, you have, the guys from Vandermark Merritt, Doug Merritt and Barry Sautner who started out with Doug doing glassblowing and then got into cold work and left Vandermark Merritt and went on to have—a career in a cameo-type engraving.