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Title: Id needed please - Borsk sklo?
Post by: Littleblackhen on November 24, 2008, 02:00:04 PM

I bought this vase off ebay where it was described as Borsk sklo.  Is this correct please?  What and where is Borsk Sklo?  Google seems to give very few results in English!

Title: Re: Id needed please - Borsk sklo?
Post by: Anne on November 24, 2008, 05:54:59 PM

Can't tell you if it is or isn't Borské Sklo (note the é on the end), but I can tell you where the company is:

Borské sklo s.r.o.
Myslbekova 700
Nový Bor - Arnultovice
473 01
Czech Republic

(Can't find their own website but they are mentioned in several manufacturers' listings)

Note: Borské Sklo isn't a part of the Sklo Union group despite being a Czech glassmaker!  8)

Title: Re: Id needed please - Borsk sklo?
Post by: Lustrousstone on November 24, 2008, 08:34:27 PM

It's very possible that it is Borské Sklo; the company was the biggest Czech maker of decorated and gilded glass ware. Now Crystalex http://www.crystalex.cz/index.php?idstr=13 (http://www.crystalex.cz/index.php?idstr=13)

Title: Re: Id needed please - Borsk sklo?
Post by: Littleblackhen on November 30, 2008, 11:10:24 PM

Thanks Anne and Christine :)

The e on the end makes a difference when searching, at least I have a few results now, but I still haven't found anything that looks like this.  I will have to invest in the new Sklo Union book and see if it has slipped in :)

Title: Re: Id needed please - Borsk sklo?
Post by: Lustrousstone on December 01, 2008, 07:31:03 AM

Borské Sklo was not part of Sklo Union, so there is nothing in the words part - haven't got to the CD yet but it seems unlikely. Hi Sklo Lo Sklo by Mark Hill shows some Borské Sklo items, and your vase looks typical of their output. But as Mark says "hundreds of thousands of products in hundreds of designs"

Title: Re: Id needed please - Borsk sklo?
Post by: Anne on December 01, 2008, 05:30:14 PM

Quote from: Lustrousstone on December 01, 2008, 07:31:03 AM

Borské Sklo was not part of Sklo Union,

Didn't I say that already?  >:D

Quote from: Anne on November 24, 2008, 05:54:59 PM

Note: Borské Sklo isn't a part of the Sklo Union group despite being a Czech glassmaker!  8)

  8)

Title: Re: Id needed please - Borsk sklo?
Post by: Sklounion on December 01, 2008, 05:59:17 PM

And many many examples of this, available here in Prague, in junkshops and fleamarkets, and very cheap.
( I am researching, honest, just in more ways than one)  ;D ;D
Regards,
Marcus 

Title: Re: Id needed please - Borsk sklo?
Post by: Littleblackhen on December 01, 2008, 06:19:50 PM

Sounds like a glass collectors dream.   Maybe we ought to organise an annual Glass Message Board holiday to Prague :)

Title: Re: Id needed please - Borsk sklo?
Post by: Lustrousstone on December 01, 2008, 07:01:22 PM

Yes, of course Anne but I was trying to point out it was no good expecting to find it in the Sklo Union book!

Title: Re: Id needed please - Borsk sklo?
Post by: Sklounion on December 01, 2008, 10:08:17 PM

Quote

Sounds like a glass collectors dream.   Maybe we ought to organise an annual Glass Message Board holiday to Prague

Hmmm, sounds like a good idea, but....

Where would I find reference pieces of Sklo Union???  >:D >:D >:D

But..... There is a lot of good glass, at affordable prices....

so why not

M

Title: Re: Id needed please - Borsk sklo?
Post by: Anne on December 01, 2008, 10:19:42 PM

Quote from: Lustrousstone on December 01, 2008, 07:01:22 PM

Yes, of course Anne but I was trying to point out it was no good expecting to find it in the Sklo Union book!

Just teasing you, Christine!  :-*