Topic: Skrdlovice Vase - BIG and HEAVY - Canadian Connection? ~ aka KANADA ~

[antiquerose123]

Hi there:
A monster of a Vase!! This came with the other 2 Czech vases I just posted.   Must weight at least 8 pounds, if not a bit more!! It is 10 inches tall - with a top opening of about 6.50 inches across.  The bottom tells the story Plus good wear for age. Czech SKRDLOVICE I believe -- BUT --  there is a number on bottom I thought might be just a Social Insurance Number( ?? )  but there CLEARLY appears to be a * P *  in the front of the number.  I know lots of SKRDLOVICE have a PN number to them. IT LOOKS like the number 62 or something like  P6255, or P6288, or something. The best that I can read ( OR THINK IT SAYS) IS:

P6255 G8E214 ........ or P6288 G867714

But that is a Guess.

Chalet Glass was influenced / Made by Skrdlovice ( for KANADA ) Canada as noted in another Post of mine here:

http://www.glassmessages.com/index.php/topic,61499.msg346509.html#msg346509

As VETRAIO had said before about my other Bowl with the curl at the end:

""" S.P. Myers and Co. Ltd.
There were fourteen designs are for Earl Myers at Skrdlovice.
There were 3 ashtrays, 2 vases, 7 bowls and 1 basket.
All have design numbers that begin with 62 .... giving us a year when they were first produced and exported to Canada for sale there. """


**** Robert ( bODA ) might want to take a peek at this too, as it is my understanding those Chalet pieces were made at Skrdlovice and for KANADA ( Canada ) and suppose to have a PN starting with a 62 -- like this does.  IF that number means anything....?

So this I need BIG TIME HELP, Please and Thanks
 

[antiquerose123]

Hi Gang -- Wondering if any additional info at all for this -- or a direction at all?

Thanks in advance !!

[Anik R]

I really like these heavy mid-century Skrdlovice pieces.  They're full of character.  I think your vase was likely designed by Bohuslav Beranek c.1954.   That number on the base has nothing to do with the piece/design itself -- I believe a previous owner added the number for insurance / (anti-)theft purposes.

I think you may have mis-interpreted information regarding Meyers, or perhaps I'm not quite understanding what you are saying...  Skrdlovice did not make glass for Chalet (or Lorraine), nor did these glassworks pass off Skrdlovice production as their own.  I don't quite see a connection between these Canadian makers and Skrdlovice, except the fact that Meyers a talented businessman who headed an import company (which did import glass from Czechoslovakia), and also happened to be owner of Lorraine.   

Anik

[Anik R]

oopsie...  Myers, not Meyers

[bOBA]

Thx Anik, the reason we think Myers contracted Skrdlovice to make several designs, is because his name is in the pattern books as "designer" of a dozen or so pieces. He probably then imported as you describe and had his own production at Lorraine. This Skrdlovice thing seems to have been a short lived attempt at finding affordable quality production, an extension of his importing from the region ....

Robert (bOBA)

[Anik R]

Hi Robert...   That, I know.     My comment about Myers was in reference to the poster's claim that "Chalet Glass was influenced / Made by Skrdlovice".   
I don't see how Chalet comes into the picture.  But like I said, maybe there is something I'm not understanding.

Anik   

[bOBA]

Thank you for the clarification Anik. I see your point, as you say, it is only Lorraine and Myers that had any link to Skrdlovice,

Robert (bOBA)

[bOBA]

The piece in this thread is not Myers but likely Bohuslav Beranek for Skrdlovice from the mid fifties. It could be in the Rocco thread somewhere....

Robert (bOBA)

[antiquerose123]

Thank you bODA and Anik for your replies,  info and thoughts

I meant when I said Chalet to say Lorraine Glass...I had Chalet on the Brain, as I am sure that happens to all of us.  I still think ( IMHO ) that the number on the bottom is still strange -- with a P then what looks like 62 on it.  That is my opinion here as I will always wonder about it. 

The poster name here in antiquerose.....aka Rose, me.....LOL.

This sure is a beautiful piece and SO heavy. I think it could be a Weapon too but too beautiful for that   

Again Thank you both bODA and Anik.