Mothership or Bust: Inside the World of Top-Shelf Glass Collecting

Few names have captured the imagination of scientific glass enthusiasts in recent years like the team of glassblowers at Mothership Glass. Be it the beauty of their cutting-edge designs or the rips of such high quality they touch your soul every time, Mothership has been hitting home runs since they opened up shop in Washington state in 2013. Today, Mothership is the main force behind an entire glass subculture focused on purchasing and reselling pieces valued at as much as $200,000. To get an idea of how the hype percolated since the first designs made shockwaves in the scientific glass community, we asked one of the top wholesale buyers of Motherships in the country what collectors are trying to get their hands on and discovered the origins of one of Mothership’s most iconic pieces from the main collaborator. Ships at the Cave Blake Hoffmann is a manager at The Cave in San Mateo, California, which, along with its newer sister location on the opposite side of the San Francisco Bay, is among the most famed high-end headshops in the galaxy. The Cave’s shelves are regularly lined with the absolute best wares from the top of the functional glass art food chain. The Cave was among the earliest places you could find Motherships on shelves — after their closest inner circle of shop buyers got first dibs. In 2012, Scott Deppe and eventual Mothership co-owner Jake Colito produced the first Fab Egg. The Egg was essentially a 3D version of the…

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