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Title: FOREIGN VASE ID HELP. - ID = VEB
Post by: PAUL H on February 02, 2009, 04:24:30 PM

Hi can anyone help with the id on this vase.. its 150mm in height and pressed in 2 pieces, it has a birdbath base
but I dont think its SKLO UNION not as nice quality. It has a circular mark embossed into base that reads FOREIGN
when read from above looking into the vase. My first thought was German maybe Lausitzer because I have a GENT
vase in the same colour.. any ideas thanks Paul.

Title: Re: FOREIGN VASE ID HELP.
Post by: Mosquito on February 02, 2009, 04:41:51 PM

Pamela's site shows this circular 'foreign' mark on Ankerglas Bernsdorf items http://www.pressglas-pavillon.de/0marken/marken.html.

Steven

Title: Re: FOREIGN VASE ID HELP.
Post by: PAUL H on February 02, 2009, 04:47:09 PM

Thanks Steven that was a fast response. Paul

Title: Re: FOREIGN VASE ID HELP.
Post by: Chris Harrison on June 13, 2009, 04:11:05 PM

I have the same vase in flint/clear with the same stamp.

The stamp is identical to that on a Lausitz "Florenz" vase that I have.  I also recall seeing it on a large bowl that also has an SG sticker (made by VEB Sachsenglas at the old Walther factory).

So are we dealing with a generic DDR stamp here?

Title: Re: FOREIGN VASE ID HELP.
Post by: Lustrousstone on June 14, 2009, 11:39:32 AM

This vase has been on here recently and was ID'd

Title: Re: FOREIGN VASE ID HELP.
Post by: Chris Harrison on June 14, 2009, 05:03:03 PM

Thanks, Christine.
Blowed if I can find it, though... :huh:

Title: Re: FOREIGN VASE ID HELP.
Post by: PAUL H on June 14, 2009, 06:12:53 PM

Neither can I Christine.. go on put us out of our misery. Paul

Title: Re: FOREIGN VASE ID HELP.
Post by: pamela on June 14, 2009, 08:15:35 PM

Christine and all: its not the vase that was identified I think, but the circular FOREIGN mark: undoubtedly Ankerglas Bernsdorf or VEB Ankerglas Bernsdorf. Saxony. I dive into my catalogues right now and let you know. If it's for sale - please let me know - thank you!  :thup:

Title: Re: FOREIGN VASE ID HELP.
Post by: pamela on June 14, 2009, 08:24:48 PM

Guess, it's a PARIS of 1958 (VEB Ankerglas) I'm interested in a purchase for the museum :rn:

Title: Re: FOREIGN VASE ID HELP.
Post by: pamela on June 14, 2009, 08:32:26 PM

Found it, it even appeared on the title of their 1958 catalogue
 :thup:

Title: Re: FOREIGN VASE ID HELP.
Post by: PAUL H on June 14, 2009, 08:37:17 PM

Hi Pamela it is for sale.. please contact me via my website. Regards Paul

Title: Re: FOREIGN VASE ID HELP.
Post by: Chris Harrison on June 14, 2009, 09:18:30 PM

Hmmm

Sorry to rock the boat but, if it's purely a VEB Ankerglas stamp, then why is it on the other two pieces that I mentioned yesterday (Lausitzer "Florenz" and the Sachsenglas bowl?).  

I know that VEB Lausitz and VEB SG had identical designs in their catalogues (Lyon, Verona, Brilliant, amongst others).  Were their moulds also used by VEB Ankerglas?  Or did the 3 VEBs just sell each others' products under their own labels?  Perhaps a way of making it seem as though there was more DDR product than there actually was?

The circular FOREIGN stamp may have been something that was applied to DDR vases being exported to the West -- although W. German pottery in the post-WW2 period was also just marked Foreign to conceal the fact of their being German.

Title: Re: FOREIGN VASE ID HELP.
Post by: Chris Harrison on June 14, 2009, 09:24:09 PM

...and I note that Pamela's Ankerglas Nova fish dish is also in the VEB Lausitzer 1969 catalogue   >:D