Moser 1948 discussion
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Moser 1948 discussion
Moser, Karlovarské Sklo, Národni Podnik, Karlovy Vary-Dvory.
Estimated date 1948, Plain Board Covers, string bound.
Approximately 95 pages printed on one side. 160+ designs with about 300 images. This a large catalogue with full size illustrations. 19 x 12½inches, 485mm x 320mm
Page size: Height: 313mm 12 ¼” Width: 474mm 18 ¾”
Images are presumed full size and are a mixture of line drawings, pen & brush ink drawings, photographs (some with pen enhanced lines). Pages are printed by a dye-line (diazo type) process and are brown coloured continuous tone. This method exposes a coated paper to light through a film master in contact with the paper. Development of the image is wet or fume developer. Some photograph based pages the contrast capability of the reproduction method has made it impossible to separate background from glassware base. Other effects of this method are; developer spills leading to blotches across images, darkened edges due to light exposure of coated paper in storage. Several masters had repaired tears. Most of these problems have been removed by editing the scanned images. Distortions appear in some images, these distortions are found on the reproduction – some are caused by damage to the film and others may have been the result of poor handling during the reproduction process.
Each page was individually stamped with Karlovarské Sklo, Národni Podnik, Karlovy Vary-Dvory in dark-blue ink. A dimension table appeared on many pages but was mostly blank or just repeating the model numbers. Where additional information had been entered, these tables are not reproduced here but the data is.
Pages are mostly unnumbered with one or two exceptions, but such numbering bears no relationship to the present catalogue pagination. Present pagination is used here.
Images are given here at 600 pixels on the longest side but full size scans are available on request subject to conditions.
Date estimation - M. Newhall 2007
I’d like to clarify my reasoning for the estimated date for this catalogue. I think this is 1948, as some of the vase numbers shown go as high as product numbers 770 and 777. Jan Mergl shows 778 being a 1945 product, and 780 as 1947, and pattern numbers were in the 900s by 1949. Karlovarske Sklo drive Moser was so named in 1946, so the catalogue cannot be earlier than that, and with so many new products in production by 1949, it would be unlikely for Glassexport or Moser not to have included some of those new designs.