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The Czech glass bangle industry

07. 06. 2019, 16:12

Adapted from "Baubles, Buttons and Beads" The Heritage of Bohemia by Sibylle Jargstorf. Well worth purchasing as a fantastic reference book. The Gablonzers (glass makers from the Gablonz region ...

The glass sculptures of Miloslav Janků for Železný Brod sklo

04. 06. 2019, 17:30

Miloslav Janků was born on April 4, 1916 in Úpice, Semily and lived there from eleven to sixty years old, when he moved to Železný Brod. From 1931 to 1934 he attended glass school ...

Antique Victorian Czech Jet Black Glass Buttons

16. 04. 2019, 13:24

A selection of beautiful Antique Victorian Czech black glass buttons. These buttons were hand molded using hand engraved steel button molds and have incredible fine detail. Each ...

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01. 02. 2021, 14:32

Czech glass seed bead size chart

We get asked a lot about Czech glass seed beads and their sizes and weights. Unlike new seed beads and Japanese seed beads, Czech vintage seed beads are very difficult to put into neat categories. They ...

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16. 07. 2020, 16:13

1930's catalogue "The crystal glassworks of A Mayer and Sohn

We recently managed to aquire a wonderful 1930's catalogue from the A Mayer and Sohn company of Oberkreibitz-Schönfeld, a region of the former Sudetenland, the historical German name ...

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21. 04. 2020, 15:56

Lampwork Czech glass flowers

A few years ago we were fortunate enough to acquire the entire contents of a former button making factory in the Czech Republic. Included in the lot were almost 1000kg of antique glass cane. This cane ...

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07. 06. 2019, 16:12

The Czech glass bangle industry

Adapted from "Baubles, Buttons and Beads" The Heritage of Bohemia by Sibylle Jargstorf. Well worth purchasing as a fantastic reference book. The Gablonzers (glass makers from the Gablonz region ...

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