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Glass Discussion & Research. NO IDENTIFICATION REQUESTS here please. => British & Irish Glass => Topic started by: Sklounion on May 07, 2005, 05:42:17 AM
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Hi, Please does any board-member have one?
If so, in the Cechoslovakia section, is there any mention of
a Teplitz glass-maker, with directors O Loewy and a Winter, initials unknown. What was the company name? It is likely to have been a pressed-glass works. (Winter eventually arrived in the UK and worked for a while as a designer at Sowerby's Ellison Glassworks.)
Sorry, scratch that one: Sklarna Otto Loewy s.r.o. Mstisov 1919-1938, confiscated by the Nazis.
Is anyone aware of any books or information on the following companies:
Fountain Glass, Robertstown nr Huddersfield
Eton Glass, Leyton, possibly owned by William Child.
Thanks in advance for any illumination,
Marcus
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Is Glass Gazeteer generic or a particular publication?
Saxton Brothers Fountain Glass Works were sold and renamed to Fountain Glass Works Ltd in 1940. Made Bottles, vessels, automated and hand pressed production. Liversedge, Yorkshire (Hartmann)
Fountain Glass Works Ltd. Huddersfield Road, Roberttown, Liversedge, Yorkshire. Soda-lime glass tumblers (Pottery Gazette 1963)
No trace of Eton Glass and neither firm mentioned in 1935 Pottery Gazette
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Is Glass Gazeteer generic or a particular publication?
Saxton Brothers Fountain Glass Works were sold and renamed to Fountain Glass Works Ltd in 1940. Made Bottles, vessels, automated and hand pressed production. Liversedge, Yorkshire (Hartmann)
Fountain Glass Works Ltd. Huddersfield Road, Roberttown, Liversedge, Yorkshire. Soda-lime glass tumblers (Pottery Gazette 1963)
No trace of Eton Glass and neither firm mentioned in 1935 Pottery Gazette
Thanks Frank, gazetteer used generically.
The info on Saxton's/Fountain Glass Works very useful. It was purchased by Loewy, and Winter (his cousin) (with whom Loewy had run Sklarna Otto Loewy, in Mstisov, Czechoslovakia), became a partner shortly afterward, enticed from Sowerby's. Within a short space of time Loewy left his cousin to it, after what appears to have been an acrimonious dispute.
regards,
Marcus
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In 1963 directors were:
Bailey, R G
Bailey, I M
Bailey, J A
Livingston J B
Moir, J W J
Murgatroyd J B
Richards F F
Still waiting for my 1931 gazeteer
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Some time ago you asked:-
Is anyone aware of any books or information on the following companies:
Fountain Glass, Robertstown nr Huddersfield
Eton Glass, Leyton, possibly owned by William Child.
William Child was my uncle and he did indeed run the Eton Glass works in Leyton, East London until about the mid 1950s. If you come across any information, I would be grateful if you could share it with me.
Many thanks
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Hi Ian,
I have anunpublished manuscript here, which was the basis of the original enquiry. I will have a look through it and see what other info is there, but, understandably, I will need to contact the owners of the document for permission to pass on any information.
Regards,
Le Casson
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Hi Marcus and others here.
I am wondering if there are any updates on this issue?
My interest in this stems from research on Frantisek Zemek and on the Teplice area.
I have found a series of references to the Loewy works at Tischau:
Glashüttenwerke - Emmahütte, G.m.b.H., Tischau
Glasshüttenwerke Emmahütte Otto Löwy & Co, G.m.b.H., Tischau
Sklárna huť Emma, Otto Löwy a spol., spol. s r. o., Mstišov
Sklárně Otto Löwy Tischau / Mstišov,
Otto Löwy a spol., spol. s r. o., Mstišov
Sklárny Löwy Otto a spol., Mstišov
AND
Mstišov, Tischau, Stalag IVC, Zajatci byli přiděleni v březnu 1941. Ubytováni v bývalé sklárně Emmahuette. Pracovali na uhelném dole Karel.
Mstišov, Tischau, Stalag IVC, Prisoners were assigned in March 1941. Housed in the former Emmahuette glassworks. They worked at the Karel coal mine.
I have read that it was mostly Soviet prisoners who were housed in the sklárně Emmahuette. The property was confiscated in 1940.
I am not sure when Otto Loewy and his partner went to England but from reading above it must have been in the early 1930's.
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I'm sorry to say that Marcus is no longer with us as he died a couple of years ago. Others may be able to add more to your research, though I did find that Otto Loewy is listed in the 1939 Register for the UK (taken in September 1939 at the outbreak of WW2), and he is recorded as follows:
Name: Otto Loewy [Otto Lowy]
Gender: Male
Marital Status: Single
Birth Date: 22 Mar 1886
Residence Place: Bromley, Kent, England
Occupation: Glass Manufacturer Refugee From Prague
Otto Lowy's death is noted in the London Gazette for 29th December 1953, as follows, Address at death: 26, Daleham Gardens, London N.W.3, Occupation: Company Director, Date of Death: 16th May, 1953." His death registration record shows that he was aged 66 at his death.
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Many thanks Anne. I appreciate your reply. Your information is certainly helpful.
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My Czech refugee grandparents and parents worked for Fountain Glass Works in Roberttown, West Yorkshire and Century Glass Works in Edmonton, North London between 1940 and 1960. They knew Rudolf Winter and his family very well.
I have just completed my own research (including into Otto Loewy who may or may not be Rudolf Winter's cousin) which I have published in a document called "A Czech Glass Factory in Yorkshire, and beyond". I hope people find it useful. (It can also be found on my Facebook page "The Lowit Family - from Bohemia to Britain, and beyond")
https://drive.google.com/file/d/1uV4jE4AoKUg6r7PL4fjF2mbI_I3HlOtt/view?fbclid=IwAR31jdsuS9ezaE-PnSCXRUgSkB33fBkVbZo75fENMMdyIXMlqEs2Z2-ZOhI
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Thank you Vera I look forward to reading it
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Thanks too from me, Vera.
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Vera, welcome to the board, and thank you for posting the link to your most interesting document which I have just read through and enjoyed.
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I have also seen that when the Nazis confiscated Jewish property in the Teplice area in 1940 the owner of the Loewy works in Tischau was Hedwig Hirsch aka Hedwig Baum Hirsch (nee Steinwald). She married twice. She was the daughter of Ernst Steinwald, the glass manufacturer in Teplice.
The liquidated property of Jewish foundations and associations, especially financial ones, was transferred a fund called : "Auswanderungsfond für Böhmen und Mähren" The fund then financed the deportation of Jews to concentration camps. It seems that Emmahuette was retained and made into a POW camp : "Stalag IVC".
I believe that in 1940 Hedwig Hirsch was co-owner of Ernst Steinwald & Co., in Teplice with a cousin called Paul Karpeles (aka Pavel Karpeles).
Hedwig was also listed as being the owner of the following companies:
a) Josef Rindskopf ́s Söhne, Glasfabriken in Kosten, Dux und Tischau
b) Glasfabriken Fischmann Söhne
c) Glashüttenwerke "Emmahütte" Otto Löwy & Co. in Mstisov
Hedwig's date of death is not known but I believe she was a victim of the Holocaust.
Interestingly Paul Karpeles too went to England.
He was living at 30 Westcotes Drive, Leicester in April 1949. just a short walk to the Mawby & King factory. He died in Reigate in 1984.
It seems that in England he knew the manager of The English Glass Company Ltd. who had been a director of Glasfabriken Fischmann Söhne. His name was Josef Oplatek.
His story is contained in a book written by his son published in 2014 :
LITTLE THINGS IN GLASS AND METAL AND PLASTIC TOO
A biography of The English Glass Company Ltd 1934 to 1990
TOM J LAWSON - GML PUBLISHING
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Thank you for this further information about what happened to some of the glassworks in the Teplice area and to some of the people involved with them. Interesting to learn about the Czech involvement in glass companies in Leicester, which adds to my own research into the Czech glass factories in west Yorkshire and north London.
I am pleased to say that I believe Hedwig Hirsch came to England before the war and so survived the Holocaust. There is a public profile of her on Geni.com which gives her date of birth as August 1882 in Teplice and a child by her second marriage called Franz Hirsch. A Frantisek Hirsch was registered with the Czechoslovak Military in the UK in June 1943, date and place of birth July 1914 Teplice.
These sources have enabled me to trace Hedwig and Franz/Frantisek Hirsch in the September 1939 Register of people living in England at the outbreak of war. They are listed as residing in a household in Burgess Hill, Sussex headed by Ernest Mantner “Director Woven Materials Company”. Hedwig’s occupation is given as “Director of B H (Textiles)” and Franz’s as “Agricultural Student”.
A Hedwig Hirsch died in June 1941 in Nuneaton, Warwickshire: her entry on the Government Death Probate Index shows her as being a widow, linked person “Frank Hirsch textile manufacturer”. A Franz Hirsch married Ruth Wollheim in Marylebone in early 1943. The couple were naturalised in March 1947 when they were resident in Belsize Grove, London NW3; Franz’s occupation is listed as “director”. They had a daughter born in 1945 in Hampstead.
So it seems that Hedwig switched from the glass industry in Czechoslovakia to the textile industry in England . . .
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Vera, thank you for your new information, I'm finding all of this absolutely fascinating, as I've been pursuing info about some of these companies and people for a while in respect of my research into glass makers who made glass trinket sets. If you happen across any catalogues from any of these glass companies or mentions of them making glass trinket sets would you please let me know? Many thanks.
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Wow Vera, that fills many holes!