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Glass Identification - Post here for all ID requests => Glass => Topic started by: Ohio on July 18, 2014, 08:05:01 PM
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Picked this up today & usually do not buy souvenir(s) however sixe was decent 5 1/4" height X 3" diameter, color was decidedly deeper than those few I'd seen in the past & cutting was first rate. Eight sided polished panels & heavy bottom wear. I think its Bohemian/German although I don't have a clue about the subject matter location & was wondering if these can be dated at all? I assume an attribution is pretty difficult because in all probability multiple houses made them. Thanks for any assistance. Ken
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Unable to see which locations but usually these are souvenirs from trips along the rhine, circa 1870-1920. Blanks from Bohemia, cutting from Germany or Bohemia by hand of photographs. I have several in this style, some more elaborate than others.
Get the locations into google - the same landmarks probably exist today
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Hi, the place is Marienbad, or Marianske Lazne in Czech, and the buildings are three curative springs located there.
Mat
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Thanks Ivo & Mat. Nice to know about the springs & was able to look them up on Google.
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I collected these for a while, i love the history behind them, and as said most the places are still there, some are little works of art in my eyes and they cost next to nothing.
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Over here they are pretty difficult to find which stands to reason since the show European destinations & they can be a bit pricy. I paid $42 for this one primarily because I figured I could not lose. Couple of years back I had a smaller one about the 1/2 the size of this one & I sold it when offered $75 just as I was putting it in my mall showcase. The guy who bought it said there was a good chance it was Biedermeier & he collected them, but again we don't see them often at all.
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Were very lucky here, all sorts of glass fetches almost nothing. I went to a car boot sale last weekend like your garage sales or maybe you have car boots? and the things there would blow your mind, deco Victorian Edwardian, a pound here ten pence there, these cost me about £10, i have about 50 of them, if i could get cheap postage to the USA i could make a fortune, i sent ten things to the USA last week and the postage was £130 and the item cost was £100 it's ridiculous i would not pay it, same for Australia. The same internal postage in the uk would be £5.50, glass is heavy hence the postage.
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We have the same problem here with shipping costs to & from GB & thats why sales between U.S. & GB are not even close to what they could be.
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We need Obama and Cameron to sort it out ;)