Richard Yelle talks about Gianni Toso at NYEGW. Oral history interview with Richard Yelle by Barb Elam, conducted via telephone, December 17, 2019, Bard Graduate Center. Clip length: 00:47.

Richard Yelle: Gianni Toso, of course, was from Venice, and he specialized in very technically competent Venetian style blowing, but he mainly made small objects, like I remember him making a chess set and showing it to us. And the chessmen were—looked like they were addressed in a Italian uniforms, say from Vatican City [Rome, Italy.] or something like that. So he—in this photograph, my recollection is that he was demonstrating his fine Venetian skills.