Membership dues are $18.00 per year for those members who elect to receive the SGS Quarterly newsletter by email. Alternatively, membership dues are $28.00 per year for those US-based members who wish to receive the SGS Quarterly newsletter by US Mail. Members residing outside the US who wish to receive the SGS Quarterly newsletter by mail should remit $30 in US funds by money order for their annual dues. Our membership year begins on January 1 of each year.
If you join later in the year dues are prorated on a quarterly basis for the first year.
If you would like to join the Stretch Glass Society please print and fill out the Stretch Glass Membership Form below and send it and a check to: The Stretch Glass Society, P O Box 117, Sunbury, OH 43074.
Stretch Glass Membership Form (pdf)
Benefits of Membership:
- Receive four well-written, informative newsletters a year. Each one has a color page.
- Attendance to ALL events at the annual convention.
- The opportunity to purchase the annual convention souvenir stretch glass piece.
- Opportunity to enter to the whimsey raffle drawing -- and perhaps win a beautiful one-of-a-kind piece.
- Opportunity to attend and bid at the whimsey auction, and attend a limited issue/one-of-a-kind contemporary whimsey auction fundraiser
- Free advertising of your stretch glass "wants" and "for sale" in the newsletter and on the web site.
- Contact with lots of friendly people who understand your collecting passion.
- Access to the password protected (reserved for members only) Newsletter Archive on the website which contains a library of past editions.
The email version of the SGS Quarterly is produced with full color photos throughout the entire newsletter. Due to printing costs, the paper copy of the SGS Quarterly distributed by US mail has selected color photos on certain pages with the remaining pages printed in black and white.