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Michael David Smith
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Author of Texas Glass: An Illustrated History of The Three Rivers Glass Company, 1922-1937 (Starsmith Publication, 1989) — the only dedicated published history of the company, and the source Kevin Mackey cites repeatedly as 'Michael David Smith's book.' Based in Austin, Texas; also maintains a collector price list for Three Rivers glassware.
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Author of the single most authoritative secondary source in this collection.
Current State
Published Texas Glass in September 1989 through Starsmith Publication (his own imprint). Contact address given in the book: 4400 Adelphi Lane, Austin, Texas 78727. Acknowledges Martha and David Tips, Viola Ebel Adlof, S.J. Stewart, Lonnie Stewart, Charles Arnott, and family members in the book’s front matter.
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Notes
A 2024 digital re-typeset edition of the book exists (LaTeX/pandoc), which is the specific edition ingested into this wiki.
The Federation of Historical Bottle Collectors (FOHBC) national book/price-guide list credits Texas Glass to the author name “Michael Simmons-Smith” (with an Austin, TX 78727 contact — the same address given in the book). This is an apparent name variant of “Michael David Smith,” not a second author or a second work; recorded here so the single book is not double-catalogued. The 2019 Bottle Research Group marks chapter also cites the book as “Smith 1989.”