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Once I wrote a preface for a mysterious anonymous catalog at the West Virginia Museum of American Glass, which I was helping identify. I was dumbfounded when I found page after page of vases already identified in Truitt 1 as Kralik being sold through Hosch. And then, I found some of the very same pieces in the BB 1900 catalog. This elegant flower is one of my favorites.
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Hi Alfredo:
You probably know all about the Blaschka Flowers, right? Here's Flickr page with photos of lots of them.
http://www.flickr.com/search/?q=blaschka%20flowers
Here's a page for the museum where they are housed (hardly any photos, though).
http://www.hmnh.harvard.edu/on_exhibit/the_glass_flowers.html
Your Show & Tell makes me wonder if this was a late-19th/early-20th century trend?
Really cool stuff, thanks for sharing!
I KNOW NOTHING ABOUT BLASHKA FLOWERS. FLOWERS HAVE BEEN MADE FOR A LONG TIME. THESE ARE NOT IT. THEY ARE DOCUMENTED TO DEATH. BUT THANKS FOR THE TIP!