Topic: Neodymium ashtray -- contemporary?

[Ivo]

seems i am more organised than i thought.

[rocco]

Wow, thanks a lot for your effort, Ivo!!
Looks like a match to me.

Seems to be a lady's ashtray (regarding the design of the box with lipstick and mirror)

Michael

[dirk.]

 :hiclp: About one of the last glassworks I would have thought of... 

[Oliver]

Hello everybody,

I know, I´m a little late, but I just came across this nice topic. So, the ashtray was sold by WMF; but the question remains: Who produced it? Haven´t also seen an alexandrit-item from WMF so far and I don´t think they were able to produce neodymium themself. Wouldn´t also be very efficient to produce this expensive colour in this small amount only for these (pressed) items.

WMF was one great customer of Hesse-Glasworks (HG) at Oberursel for quite a while; HG produced many smokey grey and champagne-coloured products for WMF (and "Rosenthal" by the way too). Ivo´s red ashtray reminds me very much of the HG-neurot and HG was producing the alexandrit-glass up to the 80s too. This might be the solution for the WMF-Neodymium-Mystery. I´m still in touch with a former HG-glassmaker of the Hessenglas "pressing-section", maybe he recognizes it.

Oliver

www.kristallglas-oberursel.net

[rocco]

Thank you so much for your contribution, Oliver!
Very interesting (and quite probable); I think there was a thread recently where Dirk or Ivo mentioned that WMF produced only a minority of the glass items sold under their brand themselves...

Michael