Topic: Czech / Bohemian pressed glass eye baths

[gdouglass]

Hi,
Can anyone suggest which glasshouse in Bohemia / northern Czech Republic might have made these eye baths, in the late 1930s or perhaps a bit later?
Thanks,
gdouglass

[Bernard C]

Try http://www.eyebaths.com/index.htm — the definitive website.

Bernard C. 

[gdouglass]

Hi Bernard,
Thanks for the suggestion. However, despite the large amount of material on  eyebaths.com  there is a lack of reliable information on this site concerning the eye baths pictured. I rather doubt whether AGL knows where the Czech / Bohemian eye baths were made.
Regards,
George.

[Lustrousstone]

Those colours look to be from one of the big factories, i.e., common standard shades. Based on the base rim, which doesn't appear to be ground (automated production), and the fact that the green one doesn't look to be uranium glass (i.e., I don't think it will glow bright green under a UV light), I would speculate post-War 1950s/1960s and possibly from one of the Jablonec nad Nisou factories. Small utilitarian stuff seems to have often come from that area. This is just an educated guess - not fact.

[Sklounion]

Hi,
Based on a limited knowledge of the subject area, Jablonec nad Nisou factories would be less likely a source than some of the major pressed glass producers such as Libochovice Sklarny a.s, and  C. Stoelzle und Sohne, both of which were known to produce medical glass, the latter company opening Hermannshuette, (Hermanova hut') specifically for the production of pharmaceutical glass in 1907. The non-ground finish of the base suggests a utilitarian item, usually hidden in a medicine cupboard, rather than automatic production, which in Czechoslovakia was to arrive in the mid-late 1950s, and the 1970s in the case of both factories I have suggested.

One cannot exclude the possibility of the Kavalier Glassworks, which also specialised in scientific glassware and which had some limited pressed glass capacity.

Regards,
Marcus

[malwodyn]

A very quick web search using just the terms "maw" and pharmacist brought up the website of the Pharmaceutical Society of Australia, and some quite detailed history of the company as manufacturers of medical and surgical equipment.

This is the URL

http://www.psa.org.au/site.php?id=1275

and the notes also include a reference to

http://www.maws-usa.com/profile.htm

[Anne]

http://www.maws-usa.com/ site is no longer there but the Wayback Machine has some archived material: http://web.archive.org/web/*/www.maws-usa.com (start at the earliest dates, the latter ones aren't relevant, as the domain was just parked by then).