Topic: Loeffelhart Florida Vase ? Unidentified mark.

[Jay]

Fingers crossed we don't now discover it was Loeffelhart's special secret signature or anything!! Anyway I now own another piece of 'Florida' so I'm happy. and learned something new!
Well TWO things actually! ROFL

[BlueOctopus]

Hello Jay, are you from UK or USA? I read LA luxus. I collect Zwiesel Heinrich Löffelhardt Florida and own almost a dozen, I bet my hat that your vase is original Zwiesel. I think this label is from a retailer. Zwiesel did not mark by painting, graving or acid or what ever, only a silver foil label. The man drinking looks to me like an A , so I thought this might me a dealer in LA.

[Jay]

Found in the wild near Liege in Belgium

[chopin-liszt]

Jay's in The Netherlands, Monika.
(are you not? Jay - but you were in Belgium for this, or is that just where it came from?)
I was googling LA with other stuff    And I think it looks very Schott Zweisel too. (nice stuff, under-rated)
It was the mention of other names I didn't know that confused me.
An enamelled-on logo would not have come off.
No matter how wet or sweaty you get near it!

[Jay]

My best guess would be it was a very poorly applied white stamp (from rubber?) using a white powdery paint which didn't have enough sticking power. (or less likely but possibly... mega saliva is my secret super power?)

My hands and the design details said immediately 'right!' which is why the unexpected mark on the base threw me off for a moment!

and now I've actually REMOVED ID from a piece...after 30 years of unblemished professional record...and GMB member in good standing, I have committed an act of albeit inadvertent vandalism and removed an identifying mark. I feel so guilty! ;-)

[Jay]

Dear Sue (et al).
Hogelandshoeve moved to Belgium (near Tongeren) and opened our new Galleries on May 31st 2019. So yes! We are now officially Belgian. and the old site at hogelandshoeve.nl will disappear shortly and is reforming itself as Hogelandshoeve.be! It's like the transportation device on Star Trek, but much more work!!

[BlueOctopus]

Hello Jay
May I invite you to my Löffelhardt Collection?

https://www.glassmessages.com/index.php?action=dlattach;topic=47899.0;attach=229658

Monika