Topic: weirdest fish ever

[flying free]

May be from Verrerie de Goetzenbroek

https://www.pop.culture.gouv.fr/notice/joconde/M0528057853?listResPage=28&mainSearch=%22cristallerie%22&resPage=28&idQuery=%223b038df-8df-5d3-4237-c577c82831%22

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[Frank]

What a match, well found. I would say highly likely to be the same glassworks but by a different hand.

[chopin-liszt]

It's described as a "screwed up". 
I assume this is just a matter of languages translating literally and coming up with something with an unintended meaning.
I presume it means something akin to frigger. 
Well done, yet again M.

[flying free]

Oops very bad typo though - should read:

Verrerie de Goetzenbruck

 
And here on this link - page 30 - please see some interesting information and history on watch glass makers in Goetzenbruck (says the factory dates back to 1640) - originally called Walter, Berger & Co then in 1854 changed name to Albert Berger & Co.  I wonder if they became the makers of the Lampe Berger?

https://www.google.co.uk/books/edition/The_Jewelers_Circular_and_Horological_Re/-nMoAAAAYAAJ?hl=en&gbpv=1&dq=Goetzenbruck&pg=RA9-PA30&printsec=frontcover

Source - the Jewelers' Circular and Horological Review  - October 4th 1893


In the article dated 1893, which is about the factory making their own glass for the lenses for watchmaking it says they run two furnaces each with 10 melting pots and each pot contains 1000lb of glass

It says they employ about 1800 workers and they all own their own houses and gardens and are very happy