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After supplying the University Museum with glass flowers for over fifty years, Rudolph Blaschka, world-famous German glass-artist, died Monday in his home in Hosterwitz, Germany...
...Since Blaschka and his father sent the first shipment of the priceless flowers to Harvard in 1887, the total output of their studio has come here. The last group of flowers to be sent, fifteen fruit models, arrived in 1936. There is nobody to carry on their work, because father and son always did their work without any assistants...
...gazed at the flowers, Vag began to attach tremendous importance to them, perhaps undue importance. Those tender petals had been the life work of Blaschka pere et fils. They had been publicized by Harvard and sanctified by royalty. And where were they? In a fire-trap if Vag had ever seen...
...that Leopold Blaschka has finished his life's work because of failing eyesight, Harvard's famous collection will receive no more additions. Much as this is to be regretted, Harvard should be glad that it has the most famous collection of these flowers in the world, and should the secret process never be passed on to future generations, the value of our glass flowers will be greatly enhanced...
Miss Ware left a fund of $300,000 to support Rudolph Blaschka and his wife, to preserve the collection, and to pay the museum staff...