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Title: ID Required - Bohemian Etched Footed Goblets - Fritz Heckert?
Post by: fritzheckert on September 03, 2010, 01:46:36 AM

We have these cool goblets from my great grandmother but do not know what their origin is.  Looking online it appears similar to some Fritz Heckert ones we've seen.  Does anyone have a more certain answer?

Title: Re: ID Required - Bohemian Etched Footed Goblets - Fritz Heckert?
Post by: Cathy B on September 03, 2010, 02:15:47 AM

Hi, and welcome to the board,

Firstly, we'll need better photographs, preferably showing the bowl with decoration, the stems and underneath at a slight angle to show the finish. I'm assuming the labels must be some sort of vendor or shop label? What do they read?

Title: Re: ID Required - Bohemian Etched Footed Goblets - Fritz Heckert?
Post by: dirk. on September 03, 2010, 05:33:03 AM

Hi!
Theresienthal perhaps? It looks  a bit like the RAI shape. See Stephan Buse´s site (scroll down to the middle of this site):
http://www.roemer-aus-theresienthal.de/historismusvar2.html
Cheers,
Dirk

Title: Re: ID Required - Bohemian Etched Footed Goblets - Fritz Heckert?
Post by: Lustrousstone on September 03, 2010, 06:12:41 AM

And larger photos (you have 125kb per photo to play and those are too small. 700 pixels for the longest dimension is often good). Photos of one glass against a plain background in the ways Cathy suggests would be good. Dimensions help too.

Title: Re: ID Required - Bohemian Etched Footed Goblets - Fritz Heckert?
Post by: Carolyn Preston on September 03, 2010, 04:21:35 PM

Not that we ask alot  :24:

Carolyn

Title: Re: ID Required - Bohemian Etched Footed Goblets - Fritz Heckert?
Post by: fritzheckert on September 06, 2010, 08:02:30 PM

Thanks everyone for the quick replies.  Here are a couple of photos.  I hope this helps.  The original photo we took off the internet as we found someone who had taken a really nice picture of the same glasses from an antique fair in France.

Dirk - could definitely be Theresienthal.  There are a couple that look extremely similar.  Thanks.   

Title: Re: ID Required - Bohemian Etched Footed Goblets - Fritz Heckert?
Post by: Anne on September 06, 2010, 09:25:14 PM

If the original image isn't yours we'll need to remove it for copyright reasons.

Title: Re: ID Required - Bohemian Etched Footed Goblets - Fritz Heckert?
Post by: fritzheckert on September 06, 2010, 09:57:43 PM

ok Anne, sorry about that.  I don't know how to remove that photo.

Title: Re: ID Required - Bohemian Etched Footed Goblets - Fritz Heckert?
Post by: Anne on September 06, 2010, 11:05:08 PM

Brief answer is you need to ask a Moderator to do it for you as you can only amend your own posts for an hour after making them. I've deleted it for you now. :)

Title: Re: ID Required - Bohemian Etched Footed Goblets - Fritz Heckert?
Post by: Lustrousstone on September 07, 2010, 06:54:39 AM

Heckert seems like wishful thinking, as the company specialised in enamelling and this looks a fairly standard grape vine etch. Perhaps early 20th century Bohemia or Germany, perhaps newer.  :huh: