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Title: pressed candle holder? id help please
Post by: stew2u2 on August 31, 2012, 11:04:06 PM
not sure if its part of a trinket set but is this a Walther & Sohne candle holder. does it have a name and age very well made even down to to toes.
Title: Re: pressed candle holder Walther & Sohne ? id help please
Post by: glassaddict on September 01, 2012, 12:15:13 AM
http://www.pressglas-pavillon.de/kerzenhalter/06825.jpg
according to Pamela - still unknown

Hil  :)
Title: Re: pressed candle holder Walther & Sohne ? id help please
Post by: stew2u2 on September 01, 2012, 07:39:14 AM
thanks hil
Title: Re: pressed candle holder Walther & Sohne ? id help please
Post by: stew2u2 on September 08, 2012, 09:03:33 AM
i see its not a candle holder but a centrepiece missing its dish. i suppose you can use it as a candle holder. and is czech glass thanks for steering me in the right direction
stew
Title: Re: pressed candle holder Walther & Sohne ? id help please
Post by: pamela on September 08, 2012, 09:21:11 AM
Stew, this remains unknown, however, here's a complete set on my pages:
 labelled No. 826480 Made in Czechoslovakia  (http://pressglas-pavillon.de/tafelaufsaetze/09552.html)

Your turn to investigate which import co. registered this item and when?  ;D

Thank you!
Title: Re: pressed candle holder? id help please
Post by: stew2u2 on September 09, 2012, 08:13:11 PM
hi pamela
thanks for the info
i have looked at your site a few times in fact it is in my favs. it is one of the best if not the best for pressed glass. if you cant find the maker i defiantly dont stand a chance but will keep my eyes peeled for one with a name on.
thanks for looking
stew
Title: Re: pressed candle holder? id help please
Post by: stew2u2 on September 09, 2012, 09:33:47 PM
my money is on JOSEF INWALD imported by by John Jenkins & Son of London but that is just putting 2+2 and making 6 nothing to collaborate this
Title: Re: pressed candle holder? id help please
Post by: Simba on June 04, 2015, 01:22:44 PM
I have just purchased the complete comport set as pictured on Pamela's pages...has anyone got any further with an ID for this piece please?
Title: Re: pressed candle holder? id help please
Post by: Wojtek Wrzyszczyński on January 11, 2022, 01:19:39 PM
Hello. Has the origin of this glass been explained? Do you know who and when registered this number 826480?
Stew, this remains unknown, however, here's a complete set on my pages:
 labelled No. 826480 Made in Czechoslovakia  (http://pressglas-pavillon.de/tafelaufsaetze/09552.html)

Your turn to investigate which import co. registered this item and when?  ;D

Thank you!

Title: Re: pressed candle holder? id help please
Post by: Paul S. on January 11, 2022, 01:59:29 PM
Design/Reg. No. 826480 was recorded with the U.K. Board of Trade on 23rd February 1938 and allocated to Loewenstein Hecht  -  and on the 26th of the same month they were allocated a further Reg. No. 826532, though without visiting TNA at Kew I've not the slightest idea what that design was for  -  hopefully someone else will be able to tell us.          Correction - I should look more carefully  -  the origin is shown on the partial label on the glass.

P.S.    The '30s were an active period for Continental imports with U.K. BoT Reg. Nos., particularly those imports from eastern Europe.       According to the Glass Association Blue Book, Loewenstein Hecht appear to have Registered eleven designs between March 1932 and February 1938, and like most similar sources, these were likely brought to an end by the advent of W.W. II.
It may be of interest to record the other Registrations:-
                                                                                   771822  -  22.03.1932
                                                                                   790374  -  16.02.1934
                                                                                   801221  -  14.03.1935
                                                                                   808456  -  09.12.1935
                                                                                   808507  -  11.12.1935
                                                                                   809309  -  24.01.1936
                                                                                   817673  -  20.01.1937
                                                                                   819188  -  17.03.1937
                                                                                   820972  -  20.06.1937

Off-hand I've no idea as to the actual designs.
Title: Re: pressed candle holder? id help please
Post by: Paul S. on January 11, 2022, 02:43:45 PM
Just my uneducated opinion - and despite the name on the label - Loewenstein Hecht seemed to have more of a German ring than Czechoslovakian.
Title: Re: pressed candle holder? id help please
Post by: NevB on January 11, 2022, 03:02:54 PM
I've seen this attributed to Schweig and Muller which I think is a good possibility. Paul, the borders in the area of western Czechoslovakia used to be very fluid and included Bohemia and the infamous German speaking Sudetenland. It's also of course possible that Loewenstein Hecht were a German/Jewish company.
Title: Re: pressed candle holder? id help please
Post by: Paul S. on January 11, 2022, 03:48:40 PM
Hi - thanks Nev.  -  I should have added  -  though it's probably already been commented on  -  that the Registrant is almost certainly an agent/importer only  -  great shame that the Kew archives don't give the maker's name too.
Title: Re: pressed candle holder? id help please
Post by: Wojtek Wrzyszczyński on January 11, 2022, 05:17:34 PM
Hi. Thanks for your replies.
But there is a problem with Glashüttenwerke Germania Schweig (Müller & Co.) - it ceased to exist in 1912.  :(
Title: Re: pressed candle holder? id help please
Post by: NevB on January 11, 2022, 06:32:32 PM
That surprises me as I thought the company (Muller & co.) existed into the 1930's as there are lots of references to them online producing figurines etc up until that time.
Title: Re: pressed candle holder? id help please
Post by: Wojtek Wrzyszczyński on January 11, 2022, 08:18:46 PM
Here I found information about this glassworks. This is a bit surprising.
https://www.saechsische.de/plus/von-einer-schweren-krise-in-die-naechste-727081.html
Title: Re: pressed candle holder? id help please
Post by: NevB on January 12, 2022, 10:08:35 AM
Unfortunately my schoolboy German isn't that good and there isn't a translator, but I do understand that the company was incorporated into VLG. This linked site has several pieces attributed to Müller and also a link to Pressglas-Korrespondenz for further information.

 https://www.20thcenturyglass.com/glass_encyclopedia/german-austrian_glass/mullerglass_home.htm