Topic: Massive amber art-deco style vase -- maker? ID = Stingl

[Ivo]

or Afors from circa 1940, of course.

[Anik R]

Ivo, thank you for your help...  I've been looking into Afors, but to be honest, I haven't been able to come up with very much information.  (And it doesn't help that when I google 'Afors', the search engine keeps asking me if perhaps I meant 'Afros'... .)  Even the GMB has rather limited information about the glassworks.

May I ask why Afors sprung to mind?  Have you seen vases similar to mine that were produced by them?  I appreciate your help... and an ever-so-delicate shove in the right direction.  :kissy:

[Ivo]

In a similar thread some time ago in the Swedish Precis-en-San forum I suggested Desna due to the technical similarity of combined moulded concave ribs and panel cutting - and it turned out to be from Afors circa 1930. As always, there is never one company which designs, makes and markets one product - there are always lookalikes. Call it the spirit of the times. Some companies have survived for years by looking at the competition and copying what they like and supplying the hot designs of the moment to their own market.

[Anik R]

I see...  thank you for taking the time to explain.

I suppose that for the time being (until a labelled example pops up somewhere in the world), I will have to satisfy myself with an exact maker unknown...  but that's alright.  No matter what, I like the vase and I like the colour.  And it looks just fine with my other amber pieces.

 :hi:

[dirk.]

We´re getting closer to at least one maker of these... 
ebay
Anyone got the book (Hartmann´s), time and will to look it up? Could it be Stölzle??

[Anik R]

Dirk, thank you so much for remembering my vase  :kissy:.

[pamela]

 :hi: Anik!
Dirk is here today and we had a look into Carolus Hartmann Glasmarkenlexikon:

The FS  label of this  vase
is
FRANZ STINGL Steinschönau Bohemia since 1906

We hope this helps  :t: :sm: :sm: :t:

[Anik R]

Pamela and Dirk, my sincerest thanks to the both of you!  :kissy: :kissy:

Just a little question...  is Franz Stingl the name of the designer, or is it a glassworks?  Please forgive my ignorance.

[pamela]

 :hi: Anik,
no further information available from Hartmann book, but googled and found this in:

www.archive.org   University of Toronto Library   'Die Kunst Monatshefte'

(no images, text only)

quote
FACHSCHULE FÃœR GLASIN-
DUSTRIE, STEINSCHÖNAU



GESCHLIFFENE PRUNKGEFÄSZE AUS KRISTALLGLAS
ENTWURF: A. BECKERT, AUSFÃœHR.: LEHRER KRAUSE
Vertrieb: Franz Stingl, Steinschönau
unquote

This translates Stingl was / is distributor.

 

[Anik R]

Pamela, thank you for your patience.  (When I googled 'Franz Stigl', I kept coming up with results about 'Franz Stagl').

But now I know that Steinschonau is Kamenický Å enov.  I'm so clever...  

 :kissy: