Went to a local sale a month ago where the elderly lady was moving into an assisted living facility & her daughter was selling her mother’s glass & china as there was little need for it anymore. Anyway it turned out her mother & father traveled abroad in the 60s for 7-8 years & always bought Lalique to bring home so there was 50+ pieces of Lalique all signed & priced semi-realistically. I don’t buy Lalique primarily due to cost, but she mentioned there was some other glass that was not signed in the other room. Turned out most was Inwald, decent stuff & this vanity box which she informed me that must have a brass mounting as it was all green before she cleaned it with brasso & a toothbrush just a couple of days before the sale although some small traces of the tarnish can still be found on the metal grooves. Anyway the box triggered a memory of Hoffman’s work so I ended up buying it.
I’ve spent some time looking through all the Desna catalogs I have as whenever they brought out a new catalog I downloaded it plus reproduction info available from Pressglas-Korrespondenz plus repro info from the revised Czech reference by Jones-North, Leach, Forsythe & France which is fairly current & I have been unable to find any information that this particular piece (Hoffman #601) has been reproduced.
One key was found in the Revised Czech reference dealing with vanity items & reproductions was that original Hoffman pieces that had ormolu & jeweled treatment should have “Austria” in tiny block lettering found on the ormolu which I found on this piece. As for the “butterfly” marking it seems not all Hoffman carried this marking. On this piece even if it had the butterfly, the marking may be covered by the ormolu so thats a dead end.
Am posting this to see if anyone has seen any info on this #601 Hoffman box other than what I’ve found.
Topic: Hoffman 601 Trinket Box (Read 739 times)
