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Bernard C:

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Pamela — yet more possible examples of rarity caused by patterns being designed and made for an export market, and then not being successful there, with only one batch being made and shipped.   I believe that this is one of the most frequent causes of rarity (if that is not mutually contradictory).

There is at least one likely case of a glassworks almost always operating this way as their standard policy — Walsh exporting to the USA from c.1875 to c.1910 or later.   I believe Walsh expected their successful designs to be plagiarised by American glassworks, so shipped one large batch to their American agents, and then went back to the drawing board and designed afresh for the next shipment.   This would explain the huge variability of their product range over this period, and why several of the most unusual and important items in the Reynolds collection have been sourced from the USA via eBay.    Their success with this marketing strategy would also explain a report of around 1900 on the Stourbridge glass industry which noted that Walsh was the only glass house operating two furnaces devoted to the production of fancies.

Such a policy would have been unlikely with pressed glass, due to the high initial investment in mouldmaking.   I have yet to see any studies of this economic aspect of historic pressed glass production published in the English language.   Have there ever been any published in German?

Bernard C.  8)

pamela:
Bernard, thank you!
Still I am a collector and do not know too much on the history  :?
Thanks to D. Mauerhoff I do know that:
all Walther figurines including Pierrot&Pierrette are designs of Fritz Scheiner who joined Walther during the early Thirties. These moulds were used for nearly thirty years, until when Walther collapsed.
I guess that after war most of Walther production was exported to UK.
They would not have exported to Western Germany - that is why it is so rare here. So the Walther glass I do buy now in England is probably of Fifties production but Thirties' pattern.
GDR had their market with the old moulds. New moulds of VEB Sachsenglas never reached that quality.
I do think, Geiselberger and Mauerhoff studied and published a real lot in Pressglas-Korrespondenz - so far all in German language, I'm afraid. But as far as I know they are working on that  :)

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