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Title: Foil 'JS'/'SJ' label on Art Deco Czech glass - glassworks ID, please?
Post by: agincourt17 on December 01, 2012, 11:36:04 AM
Can anyone identify the Czech glassworks who marked their wares with this foil 'JS'/''SJ' label, please ?

Probably dates from the 1930s.   
Title: Re: Foil 'JS'/'SJ' label on Art Deco Czech glass - glassworks ID, please?
Post by: neil53 on December 02, 2012, 11:55:10 PM
Hi, it could be the designer's initials rather than the glass house if it preceded the second world war.  Any chance of getting a picture of the object?
Title: Re: Foil 'JS'/'SJ' label on Art Deco Czech glass - glassworks ID, please?
Post by: Lustrousstone on December 03, 2012, 07:39:49 AM
Could be the importer
Title: Re: Foil 'JS'/'SJ' label on Art Deco Czech glass - glassworks ID, please?
Post by: agincourt17 on December 03, 2012, 10:48:48 AM
The label appears on the underside of a perfume atomiser bottle and a perfume flask from a (presumably crystal) trinket/vanity set trio. No markings on the atomiser head.

I’ll be posting photos of the whole trio on the glass trinket sets section shortly, but thought that I would try to get an ID of the label from GMB Czech-glass section first.

(In my first post, I’ve inadvertently omitted to credit the photo of the label to Patrick Sturkyn).
Title: Re: Foil 'JS'/'SJ' label on Art Deco Czech glass - glassworks ID, please?
Post by: Frank on December 03, 2012, 12:48:05 PM
Josef Schussheim & Co.  Leipzig, Saxony - Refinery/decorator 1922 on

Jäckel & Schwuchow, Arndtstr. 6.   Leipzig, Saxony - Refinery/decorator active c1925

Josef Schuster & Co. Nurnberg less likely as the did advertising stuff and their label included ampersand.
Title: Re: Foil 'JS'/'SJ' label on Art Deco Czech glass - glassworks ID, please?
Post by: Lustrousstone on December 03, 2012, 12:51:25 PM
Wrong country Frank
Title: Re: Foil 'JS'/'SJ' label on Art Deco Czech glass - glassworks ID, please?
Post by: Frank on December 03, 2012, 01:51:22 PM
Not really, country on label is where the glass was made, decorator might have had an office in Cz too but not a lot of point as only 160 or so km from glassmakers in northern cz

Anyway the JS is exact match for first one above in Hartmann.

Just a thought, they could be cz based just maintaining a showroom in Leipzig to be near the Messe. Hartmann source is Glasindustrie 1933 mine is 1925 but they are not listed there. Without more detail we cannot be certain but label is definitely Josef Schussheim's and not the other 2 I gave. He seems to have vanished in 1938 but may have managed to get to UK and/or US.
Title: Re: Foil 'JS'/'SJ' label on Art Deco Czech glass - glassworks ID, please?
Post by: vetraio50 on June 28, 2021, 02:54:43 AM
Some years later I have come across reference to Jos.Schuster & Co when researching the "Cristallerie de Turn" mentioned in A Study of Loetz Cut Glass Production by Dr. K. M. Hasselbach : "As there was not enough capacity for cutting available at Klostermuehle, Loetz established in 1925 another cutting place at Unterreichenstein (Rejštejn ) together with Jos. Schuster&Co [Lnen, page 60] to satisfy the demand for traditionally bohemian cut glass and marked it mainly to Europe under 'Cristallerie de Turn'." The '[Lnen, page 60]' refers to Jitka Lněničková : 'Johann Loetz Glas aus dem Boehmerwald 1824-1939'.
The Cristallerie de Turn is also mentioned in an article on perfume bottles again by Jitka Lněničková in Pressglas-Korrespondenz Nr. 06/2000 : "Welt der Duftbehälter" : "In einigen lokalen Raffinerien wurde auch Toiletten-Glas verziert: Albrecht & Co. - Košt‘any, Pestner & Co. - Košt‘any, Cristallerie de Turn - Trnovany usw. Auch bei der Firma F. Welz ist die Produktion von Puder-Dosen belegt."

Not saying that the label is Jos.Schuster & Co but is certainly over the border in Czechoslovakia.
Title: Re: Foil 'JS'/'SJ' label on Art Deco Czech glass - glassworks ID, please?
Post by: Frank on December 30, 2021, 05:12:50 AM
Jos Schuster & Co 1920-45 Zuckmantel Bohemia. Glassworks and finisher, still doubt label match.