Topic: More Catalogues

[pamela]

:help: please!

Just added

Gebedje Bulgaria

RPG AG Lamp Shades, most probably Germany

Both companies are unknown to us and we googled without success  :grrr:

 :ghug:

Anne, thank you for your thorough investigations  :kissy:
Dieter has traced an entry for Gebedje in 'Adreßbuch der Glasindustrie, Verlag Coburg 1936' here

Unfortunately no dates of establishment given, however, we know now that this company definitely existed near Varna, Bulgaria.

:sm:

[Anne]

Earliest reference I've found so far was that one for 1913, Pamela, and still around in the 1950s...  glad Dieter found them in that ref book.

[Anne]

Interesting comment here on Wikipedia too: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Beloslav "Beloslav is an old centre of artistic glassblowing and fireproof glassmaking and currently supplies glass vials to international pharmaceutical companies." Beloslav = Gebedje "The town was also known as Krushevo, Gebedzhe (Turkish: Gebece), Belovo, and Belevo." That spelling of Gebedzhe matches that on the catalogue cover of course.  The glassworks was also mentioned in a book published in 1916 (With Gypsies in Bulgaria by Andreas) http://www.ebooksread.com/authors-eng/1868-1935-andreas/with-gypsies-in-bulgaria-rdn/page-3-with-gypsies-in-bulgaria-rdn.shtml. And, according to this site: http://www.inhomglass.com/for_us_en.htm the predecessor of Inhom were glassmaking there since 1893! Video showing the derelict site: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=amNHLtJsdNo - apparently the old glassworks was cleared to make way for a new industrial park.