Postby AG2012 » Fri Nov 02, 2018 2:25 pm
Originally produced by Heinrich Hoffmann and Henry G. Schlevogt.
A multi-coloured brochure “Czech It Out Inc.” (C.I.O.), Brooklyn, New York, from 2001 promoted reproductions of this famous glass from the 1930s in Czchechoslovakia.To distinguish between a reproduction from C.I.O. and an original glass one would need to keep both items in his hands close together, to compare colour and precision of pressing. Some of the press moulds from C.I.O. were made by casting moulds from original glass, so the pressed figurines or flowers became blurred. Sold to tourists in Prague, Liberec and Jablonec nad Nisou as cheap but beautiful souvenirs - like those poor quality copies which were produced in the years from 1948 to 1990 when Czechoslovakia badly needed hard currency.
