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Title: Small cylindrical vase, red core, with mystery label -- Yugoslavia?
Post by: rocco on March 29, 2012, 04:00:58 PM

I bought this vase partly because I like it (looked like 1980s Czech), and partly for the strange label. :)
Height a little over 11 cm, polished and bevelled base.

The label is heavily worn unfortunately, so the only thing I could read was "....TAL" under the emblem showing a castle and two trees.

A little bit of image manipulation (last pic) did the trick, and I think I can read something like "MADE IN YUGOSLAVIA" now.

But I cannot find any information about Yugosloavian glassworks.
And what does the ...tal refer to?

Any comments highly appreciated as usual.
Thanks,
Michael

Title: Re: Small cylindrical vase, red core, with mystery label -- Yugoslavia?
Post by: Tigerchips on March 29, 2012, 10:27:44 PM

Crystal?

Title: Re: Small cylindrical vase, red core, with mystery label -- Yugoslavia?
Post by: rocco on March 30, 2012, 06:59:29 AM

Hey thanks, didn't think of that!
Somehow I was convinced this is the glassmaker's name.

Unfortunately doesn't help much; searching the board showed very little info on Yugoslavian glass, the majority being cut or pressed crystal ;D pieces...

I would think that the use of the word "Yugoslavia" should date it to the early 1990s at latest?

Michael

Title: Re: Small cylindrical vase, red core, with mystery label -- Yugoslavia?
Post by: Ivo on March 30, 2012, 08:33:16 AM

Sure does - you will now have to search for Croatia, Slovenia and Serbia. All three had and have glass factories. The ones in Slovenia are Hrastnik http://www.steklarna-hrastnik.si/steklarna-hrastnik/en/steklarna-hrastnik.asp?FolderId=406 and Rogaska  http://www.slovenia.si/en/business/business-features/steklarna-rogaska-the-elegance-of-glass/

The Croatian glass factories are ttbomk limited to packaging glass - at least they used to. And in Servia there is the Paracin glassworks which was taken over by the Bulgarians in 2007.

Title: Re: Small cylindrical vase, red core, with mystery label -- Yugoslavia?
Post by: rocco on March 30, 2012, 09:50:04 AM

Ivo thanks a lot! -- I had hoped you would comment on this :)

My search so far didn't bring anything similar to light.

When browsing Czech Glass Revue issues from the 1970s and 80s, I noticed that there were several articles about glass symposia held in Czechoslovakia showing pieces from Yugoslavian designers... (studio glass style)
If my vase dates from that period, maybe Yugoslavian glass was a little bit more adventurous then, than it seems to be now?

Michael