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Hi all , found this Bell bowl solid stem wine glass at a bootfair over the weekend,it’s a bit over 14.5 cm in height and I would say soda glass .The foot is not folded but thin and you can feel wear using the finger nail test .My thoughts are continental and possibly 1750ish.There are all the normal small air bubbles and inclusions with light scratching at the bottom of the bowl (maybe a clue to what it was used for?)…any thoughts gratefully accepted,thanks .

Hi Derek,

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Sharron. 

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I think from Josephinenhutte 1900-1950 Band II - see bottom of left hand page, right hand column:

Some information here (can't read page number clearly enough - so apologies)  that discusses the range Vineta-Kristall in connection with 'Erwin' and in  the same sentence as referring to 1928 and A Pfohl's departure from Josephinenhutte.  So possibly that photograph from Dr Arthur Traube  dated c.1925 is more likely dated to later 1920s?
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Translating the information printed there describing the Vineta-Kristall range and using Google translate (very hard to enlarge to read script clearly though!) it appears to say:
'Consisting of numerous colored shapes, melted with flakes and filigree ribbons. This is a mass-colored crystal that, thanks to a special process, imparts seemingly random coloring.'

Quote in German - apologies if incorrect but it is very hard to read:
"bestehende aus farbigen, zahlreichen formen mit Krösel einschmelzen und band filigran. Es handelt sich hierbei um ein in der Masse gefarbtes Kristall dem ein besonderes Verfahren scheinbar regellose Farbwerkungen verleiht"

The Dr Arthur Traube photograph is a great spot, interesting to see a few other examples from the range.

I suspect the difficulty in seeing other examples from the range may be to do with the fact that many have been misattributed in the past. I wonder how many were produced in comparison to WMF Ikora.

The WMF Ikora and Josephinenhutte Vineta-Kristall dates are interesting, also stylistically not that dissimilar to some Monart production of the same period.

Nice to finally know about these pieces.

That’s a relief Anne, thanks, Fred must have spent hours loading all those pictures, it’s a valuable resource there’s nothing else quite like it for Victorian pressed glass.
Thanks Mike