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Author Topic: Who Were Leroc of Czecho-slovakia?  (Read 11244 times)

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Offline BJB

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Who Were Leroc of Czecho-slovakia?
« on: April 16, 2005, 02:14:55 PM »
Hi,

I have just bought a little ring dish with an inaglio of a heron/stork in flight and an etched marked

 "Leroc regd design 750112, made in Czecho-slovakia"

and a moulded
"regd no.750112",

can anyone throw any light on the maker, and if the 50p was well spent!

Many thanks,
Barbara

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Who Were Leroc of Czecho-slovakia?
« Reply #1 on: April 16, 2005, 04:08:34 PM »
I presume it is a British design registration and thus 1929. Can you post a picture please.

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« Reply #2 on: April 16, 2005, 06:14:12 PM »
Hi Frank,

Here is the picture

http://tinypic.com/4hys93 Mod: pic link dead, please see later posts in topic for new images

Not very clear but it is quite a hard object to take.

Barbara

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Who Were Leroc of Czecho-slovakia?
« Reply #3 on: April 16, 2005, 06:42:14 PM »
I have a trade directory from 1931 on its way, might be able to ID Leroc then as I cannot find it elsewhere.

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Who Were Leroc of Czecho-slovakia?
« Reply #4 on: April 16, 2005, 10:07:54 PM »
Hi Frank,

Thanks, it would be lovely to find out who they were as the glass is really good quality.

Many thanks,
Barbara

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Who Were Leroc of Czecho-slovakia?
« Reply #5 on: June 04, 2005, 03:51:32 PM »
Hi Frank,

It's a case of some you win, some you don't. Just because things are marked it doesn't mean it is easy :)  If it were it would be a very boring existance :wink:

Thanks for trying, and I'll hang on to my little dish a while longer.

Barbara

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Re: Who Were Leroc of Czecho-slovakia?
« Reply #6 on: March 25, 2008, 08:13:06 AM »
Hi Barbara i always miss tinypics aint seen one yet and i do get up at 6.00 am but i have a lidded pin dish as you describe, bought about a year ago it came with two candlesticks,i had not seen a piece of leroc in the thirty or so years collecting glass and then i saw another piece a few months back,so i hope we find out a bit more about them. JP.

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Re: Who Were Leroc of Czecho-slovakia?
« Reply #7 on: March 25, 2008, 08:56:09 AM »
I assume Leroc is a trade name, not company, but yet to be tracked down. Quickest is to check trade name directories in a public library.

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Re: Who Were Leroc of Czecho-slovakia?
« Reply #8 on: July 20, 2008, 02:25:09 AM »
There's a full set on eBay at the moment:
http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&rd=1&item=290246421363

RD no 750112 doesn't appear in either the Blue Book or on Great-Glass, but the number dates from November 1929. There's a good picture of the etched mark on the base of one of the items in the listing.
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Re: Who Were Leroc of Czecho-slovakia?
« Reply #9 on: July 20, 2008, 07:58:46 AM »
The glass (i.e.the actual items with the impressed heron design) was made by Josef Inwald and was shown in their 1934 catalog. The items shows in the eBay auction comprise part of the full set.

Looks like a decorator (Leroc?) did the paintwork and possibly added their own etched mark. It's possible that the RD was for the Inwald design. I don't think Inwald would have added an etched mark, it's not their style of doing things. They did sometimes use a pressed RD.

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