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Alfredo
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THE CHICAGO FIRM, BUTLER BROTHERS, IMPORTED BOHEMIAN/CZECH GLASS WHOLESALE, AND SOLD IT TO RETAILERS THROUGHOUT THE COUNTRY. THEIR CATALOGS CONTAIN INVALUABLE INFORMATION AS TO THE TIME THESE PIECES ARRIVED TO THE USA MARKET. THESE TWO BELONG TO THE 1929 CATALOG. YOU WILL FIND OTHER RIBBED VASES, SUCH AS THE THREE-LEAF VASE IN THE SAME ORANGE COLOR.
THE TERM IS NO LONGER BOHEMIAN. IT IS CZECH.
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Al, Thanks for sharing this. I appreciate your wealth of knowledge and years of research on Czech and Bohemian Glass. Your personal website http://sites.google.com/site/loetzandglass/Home has been an invaluable resource of information for me about this wonderful glass.
Hi Al, If it was not for your reasearch I would have thought these where modern Chinese.......
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Marty
Iknew it, I just KNEW it. I have been to your website researching something else and thought of it when these pieces popped up. An AMAZING website, we are fortunate to have you here. Please share more as you can.
1900s Butler Bros. catalogs are also source information for R. S. Prussia, which I collect. I will now check your website. You may wish to check rsprussia.com and rsprussia.net. Thanks again.
Alfredo, I have a pitcher, wanting your opinion on it and maybe the value, thanks, Dean