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<p>[QUOTE="UncleChuckTX, post: 618913, member: 154"]It's possible this could have been one of the pieces offered on PBS that year. In case you aren't familar - Blenko partnered with PBS in the late '90s I believe. Each year they would produce a set of 5 or 6 pieces which would be offered as pledge incentives, and promoted during an airing of a Blenko documentary. I think at least some of those pieces were non-catalog, or specialty offerings such as typical catalog pieces in colors not usually made for sale.</p><p><br /></p><p>As an example, here are the 2016 offerings: <a href="https://www.wkar.org/post/blenko-glass-behind-scenes-1#stream/0" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://www.wkar.org/post/blenko-glass-behind-scenes-1#stream/0" rel="nofollow">https://www.wkar.org/post/blenko-glass-behind-scenes-1#stream/0</a></p><p><br /></p><p>You might try contacting the Blenko Project site. The lady who created it also publishes a long-running Blenko blog in the local newspaper.</p><p><br /></p><p><a href="http://www.blenkoproject.org/" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="http://www.blenkoproject.org/" rel="nofollow">http://www.blenkoproject.org/</a></p><p><br /></p><p>EDIT: Looks like the blog has an 11-month ID help backlog, sorry:</p><p><br /></p><p><a href="http://herald-dispatchblogs04.blogspot.com/" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="http://herald-dispatchblogs04.blogspot.com/" rel="nofollow">http://herald-dispatchblogs04.blogspot.com/</a>[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>
[QUOTE="UncleChuckTX, post: 618913, member: 154"]It's possible this could have been one of the pieces offered on PBS that year. In case you aren't familar - Blenko partnered with PBS in the late '90s I believe. Each year they would produce a set of 5 or 6 pieces which would be offered as pledge incentives, and promoted during an airing of a Blenko documentary. I think at least some of those pieces were non-catalog, or specialty offerings such as typical catalog pieces in colors not usually made for sale. As an example, here are the 2016 offerings: [URL]https://www.wkar.org/post/blenko-glass-behind-scenes-1#stream/0[/URL] You might try contacting the Blenko Project site. The lady who created it also publishes a long-running Blenko blog in the local newspaper. [URL]http://www.blenkoproject.org/[/URL] EDIT: Looks like the blog has an 11-month ID help backlog, sorry: [URL]http://herald-dispatchblogs04.blogspot.com/[/URL][/QUOTE]
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