Topic: Help identifing this mark/crest vase looks to be Moser

[yellowblazer1969]

Help cant find any info on this marking.  Vases look to be Moser, one is marked the other is not.

Thanks, Chris

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[yellowblazer1969]

Here is a bit of history i have obtained from family records records regarding the vases.  The vases belonged to some of my relatives who were a prominant part of southern history (would rather not disclose names at this point).  By 1850 the family left Charlestown and moved to Spartenburg where the family continued to live until the passing of the last child.  The children never married and continued to live in the house until their passing.  The vases were left to my parents who received them in 1977 about a week before my birth.  I would love to know any info about the vases or get any ideas about who to contact, I am not interested in selling the vases but am more interested in understanding more about my family history and the lineage of the vases.

thanks, Chris

[Lustrousstone]

A better close up of the mark might help. Try cropping your original picture.

[yellowblazer1969]

A better close up of the mark might help. Try cropping your original picture.

Hopefully this will help.  The mark is a circle around a crown over a shield.  The shield apperars to have 4 vertical lines on it.

thanks again, chris

[Lustrousstone]

There is no mark like that in the Moser book (the one written by the company itself). According to Collectible Bohemian Glass: 1880-1940 (Truitt and Truitt), portrait vases were made for a relatively limited period c 1865-1880 and were typical of Southern Bohemia. They show an unidentified vase the same shape as yours but in ruby glass and with a different portrait (an upper glass girl rather than a peasant girl). There is also the additional factor that many Bohemian companies supplied blanks to decorating companies. Your mark may be a decorating company's mark. That your girls are wearing peasant dress indicates, IMHO, that these vases were decorated for export.