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WRITING SET WITH CANDLESTICK 
Design: Kolo Moser, 1903 
Serial numbers (from left to right): 
M 99, M 101, M 102, M 104, M 98, 
M 100 
M 98 = ink-well 
M 99 = candlestick 
M 100 = pen wiper 
M 101 = sponge bowl 
M 102 = stamp 
M 103 = paperweight 
M 104 = ashtray 
M 105 = lamp 
Material(s): sheet copper 
Ausführung: WW 1903 
Retail price: 
Version A (5 piece) = K 200 
Version B (6 piece) = K 300 
Version C (ashtray) 
Present equivalent: S 13,615.44 (K 300, 
12/83) 
Records: WWMB 3, p. 200; K.l. 12589/5 
(M 98); K.l.12589/3 (M 100); K.l.12589/4 
(M 103) 
The comparison of these two candlesticks 
produced by Josef Hoffmann and Kolo Mo 
ser respectively in the same period (1903) 
is intended to illustrate the marked dif- 
ferences in the design of an article with 
the same function: Hoffmann’s emphasis 
of rectilinearity and Moser’s sweeping cur- 
ves. However, it should be added that the 
work of the two artists is sometimes stylis- 
tically more similar as a result of their 
mutual influence on one another. 
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