Many here have followed my Welz research for it's entirety for many years now. The path has been at times difficult and turbulent but has continued to develop more and more information about a company which had seemingly been all but forgotten and dismissed through the years. When I started the project there only real mentions of thei company were brief discussions in both the Passau Catalogs "Das Bohmische Glas" and also a brief mention in Truitt I with some images of identified early production. Their Decor Era production was all but unidentified and Truitt even voiced the opinion that they were likely out of business just post WWI..... That turned out to not be the case.
Through a very odd set of circumstances and some persistence on my part, in late 2014 I made contact with a direct descendant of Franz Alois Welz, who along with his brother Josef ran the Glasshütte Antonienhütte from 1909 until it's closing in the mid 1930's. One of the results of that contact, along with some other extremely important and previously unknown historical documents, was the obtaining of a scan of the first piece of Welz factory literature to be located anywhere.
I have now had an article "Franz Welz Klostergrab - Lost History Revealed", published in the April 2016 issue of "All About Glass", the West Virginia Museum of American Glass quarterly, and am posting the literature example here since it has now been made public.
The second image is of examples I have located in the shapes, and in some cases the same décors shown in the literature, almost all of which had been identified as Welz production prior to the discovery of the production document which is dated 1928.
Much of my research through the years has been aided by many members of this forum and for that I am grateful......
I would also say that the writing of a brief 10 page article for "All About Glass" has also made me realize that the subject of Welz, based on my many years of research and findings is one deserving of a book, a task many friends and collectors have asked me to undertake, and one I am now prepared to start.....
Topic: Franz Welz Klostergrab - Never Seen Production Literature (Read 6122 times)
