Posted 5 years ago
truthordare
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The best part of having a large collection of Bohemian glass produced by the same house is the informative images you can create with it.
It's the best way to truly compare, side by side, decorative glass from a specific time period, location and identity.
Here I have 3 bottles, a pair of triangular paneled diamond glass, a single maze decor bottle with a UK hallmarked silver collar, dating 1908, a small whimsy basket with the chevron decor shown in the Hosch catalog pages for 1905 (Truitt Vol. I) described as Kralik content, and last picture includes a life light in green with iridescent violet leaves, shown in the Hosch Catalogue in 1897, and in 1906 in a smaller version with no pedestal.
(Edited and removed a comment about Hosch and the Kralik glass content, which was not a direct communication but an oft repeated one, which was uttered originally many years ago. I feel the truth of the matter may or may not be what I was told.)
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After some reflection last night, I decided to add another paragraph as the element which matters the most here in my Kralik identification for these specific BOHEMIAN glass pieces is the time line. Every one has connections to the first decade 1900-1910 of the 20th century. We have the silver collar hallmarks which were applied to these barber bottles mosy of them missing, we have a Hosch Kralik catalog page for the baskets dating 1905, and we have a Hosch catalog page for the lifelight of 1897. We have multiple examples in these shapes and others with a variety of decors either textures or applied frit that were produced by Kralik and documented as early 20th.
The claimed Welz glass products here on CW, are all documented post 1921. Either by the usage of the applied mark Czechoslovakia, or a label with Czechoslovakia, or a piece of a catalog page dated 1928. The fact the same glass mold applications for some of the Kralik decors were used again, but on the colorful or bright color Tango era trend glass, does not mean all previous glass items with these decors are Welz.
The same process happened between Rindskopf and Kralik, some early decors by Rindskopf such as Pepita and the pulled feather designs and applications, were used by Kralik after 1920, when Rindskopf went into the pressed glass fabrication and dropped their hot furnace molded glass production.
Kralik made it their own by using their shapes and by changing the colors to the bright Tango era of orange, yellow, etc. especially for the pulled feather designs. They also added some of their textured decor for their version of pepita such as the martele. I owned one of these.
Another instance of Bohemina/Czech glass changes, and the difficulty for some to accept these FACTS. It was mentioned here recently that just a few people out of thousands are unable to deal with change and believe the evident facts. Well, I would venture the people thinking and saying this are doing exactly that. What an irony....
