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Title: Favor Needed on Czech Compact
Post by: Ohio on December 30, 2009, 05:53:38 AM

I need a favor. At one time I was certain I had run across documentation that this was
Inwald, however I could only recover 75% of my files during a a PC crash three years ago. She is signed Made in Czechoslavakia on the bottom & is a ladies makeup compact. We call her Alexandria in the US, but I think the name is simply something someone gave her. I ran through the Inwald catalogs I found on line, but evidently did not find the right one. I sincerely appreciate anyone providing a URL to the correct catalog. Thanks, Ken 

Title: Re: Favor Needed on Czech Compact
Post by: Lustrousstone on December 30, 2009, 09:16:01 AM

What's the base like please?

Title: Re: Favor Needed on Czech Compact
Post by: Ohio on December 30, 2009, 03:44:44 PM

Christine I'm not certain I understand your question? The base is shown in the photo & unfortunately this is the only photo I have since I sold it a couple of years ago. The base has areas for lipstick, eyebrow pencil & rouge, puff & powder, etc. I've tried to modify the original jpg to just show the base, but not certain if its good enough. Ken

Title: Re: Favor Needed on Czech Compact
Post by: Anne on December 30, 2009, 05:30:49 PM

Hi Ken, I think Christine means the bottom side of the base, as Inwald is known especially for highly polished shiny (mirror-finish) bases on many of their items, so that can be a good pointer towards their output.

It's a fascinating piece and I've never seen one like this before... I'd have assumed American rather than European without the Made in Czechoslovakia mark. :-[   There's nothing like it shown in Schránky Vůní - České toaletní sklo od počátků do současnosti by Jitka Lněničková,  Petr Nový a kol., (published Jablonec nad Nisou 1999).

Hopefully someone will be able to help with more information.  :thup:

Title: Re: Favor Needed on Czech Compact
Post by: pamela on December 30, 2009, 05:58:26 PM

Need to take some pics of mine tomorrow, it's matt finished and no enamal colours left (if there were at all) Will also photograph the base, which is slightly domed I think.
No markings, also always presumed US
 :rn:

Title: Re: Favor Needed on Czech Compact
Post by: Ohio on December 30, 2009, 07:06:48 PM

Thanks. All I can add is that I remember I had this piece for two years & DW was looking at it one day & said did I know it was marked Czech? Honestly the Made in Czechoslavakia was so faint that it blended in to be close to invisible. It appears in Margaret Whitmyers vanity reference "Bedroom & Bathroom Glassware of the Depression Years" & she named it Alexandria & refers to the Made in Czechoslavakia mark on the base. Ken

Title: Re: Favor Needed on Czech Compact
Post by: Sklounion on December 31, 2009, 12:28:47 AM

Sorry, Inwald milk glass, not smooooooooth polished bases...
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Title: Re: Favor Needed on Czech Compact
Post by: Anne on December 31, 2009, 03:18:12 AM

Ahhhh thanks for that Marcus, I did wonder idly if it applied to milk glass as well... 

Title: Re: Favor Needed on Czech Compact
Post by: Ohio on December 31, 2009, 05:40:26 AM

As I remember the base was not polished just as it might have come out of the mold with no finishing. Ken

Title: Re: Favor Needed on Czech Compact
Post by: pamela on January 01, 2010, 05:00:02 PM

Happy New Year everyone!  :pty:

As Ken said, it looks as if no finishing applied.
No mark that I can see due to the matt surface.
Also googled 10 years of Pressglas-Korrespondenz without success.  :-\

Title: Re: Favor Needed on Czech Compact
Post by: pamela on January 01, 2010, 05:07:18 PM

one more of the base, still blurry,  ::) but better?

Title: Re: Favor Needed on Czech Compact
Post by: pamela on January 01, 2010, 05:14:08 PM

smaller now  :ac1: