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179 Catalogue VIKTORIN A SPOL., Hradec Krälove (Königgrätz), after 1935, unpaginated (plate 14b), 21.1 x 27.1 cm.-W. Neuwirth Archives, Vienna
can cause the sensitive wires and tiny beads to tangle (ills. 8,
9; pp. 13).
Assigning an origin and date to these glass Christmas tree Ornaments
is not easy. They appear to have first been made in
the first third of the 20th Century, although of course, such
types were also made in the 19th Century and also later in the
20th Century. The production of this kind of wire was not limited
to one country or one region, with the result that this specialty
does not allow a more accurate identification either. The caps
of the Ornaments I examined, when present at all (sometimes
the metal hanging devices were replaced by the wire and so
were not needed), do not have markings. Sometimes the characteristics
of the cap point to a certain provenance (ill. 6, p. 12:
similar to the MADE IN AUSTRIA inscription). Small shapes
with pressed in sides could either be strung into chains (ill. 10,
p. 14) or hung as single elements (ill. 11, p. 15). Here the production
of bead-rows indicates that they were made in Bohemia.
The markings follow the historical changes in today's Czech
Republic: MADE IN CZECHOSLOVAKIA has been replaced
by CZECH REP. (ills. 42, 43; p. 21; ills. 154-156, p. 42).
Although not the subject of this book, several examples do
however point to Germany (ills. 148-153, p. 42). In any case,
the little metal caps with the words GERMANY, MADE IN
GERMANY, and GDR also reflect a bit of history.
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