Using Glasscatalogue.com
- Details
- Category: Discussion
- Published on Monday, 10 September 2012 13:10
- Written by Frank Andrews
- Hits: 1913
Using the Glass Catalogues
A lot of work has been invested in restoring images from, tears, stains, printing defects and decay. Where there was insufficient information to restore a portion of the image that part remains untouched. The site is intended to give authors a rich good quality source for their publication for a marginal cost. Large versions suitable for print are available at nominal cost. Please discuss your use for approval before taking the images, at the very least we require a credit to this site and Frank Andrews. Whole catalogues may not be reproduced without special consent. Websites will be authorised to include images in articles but not catalogue databases.
Organisation
Every item is in at least four categories: Catalogue Name, Type of Glassware, Region and date.
Spelling is as found in original catalogues, only corrected where obviously an error. A conventional spelling will be added to the description for keyword searches e.g. Carafe. If the catalogue did not give a name/description, an appropriate name will be given to the piece.
Sizes are as given and where they have been measured from the page this is because the scale of the images is known or given. In some cases an example was available to measure. All glass measurements are approximate. Errors in original metric/imperial units are noted. Conversions have not been added if not in original catalogue.
Whisky tumblers may appear under Spirit/Liquor and Tumblers. Port, Sherry and Champagne glasses under Wine glasses. Cocktail glasses are listed under spirit/liquor.
When browsing you can select a number of different orderings, SKU will usually give the original catalogue pagination. Note where items occur more than once in a catalogue, the first example only is listed... but the other images added to that record if they are different. You can subset
Photographs of actual pieces are added as additional images except where clarity is improved in which case the catalogue image is an 'additional' image. To see the additional images click on the product name or details button.
Searching is from the current level and subfolders, select Main Menu>Catalogues to start at top level and search all records.
Manufacturer vs Wholesaler/Retailer
In general a glass makers catalogue shows the range available to order, not neccesarily produced. Wholesaler catalogues show what is held in stock and thus actually available at a particular point in time. If the maker of a piece in a retail catalogue is known, we have updated the record for the item. Look at the list of Manufacturers to find these companies that are not represented by a catalogue. Decorators are classed as a manufacturer as their work is often available on the collecting market under that name. However where the maker of the blank is known, this will replace the Manufacturer for that item and the description will be updated. There is a pitfall in that a reseller catalogue might include 'copies' of the 'known' makers work that is indistinguishable from the catalogue image. Where a reseller, such as UKs Hill Ouston, is known to offer reproductions, we will include this information in descriptions as relevant. If the original maker is known this will be mentioned with a caveat.
Dating is the date of the catalogue, where it can be determined. Pattern numbers can be a good guide to dating in many cases, but in some cases such as Moser designs were renumbered. Where the date of a design introduction is known that item will appear under both dates and the information added to the description of the item. We welcome further information on any piece as available.
Additional keywords are added to some records to assist in searches.
Your input is always welcomed as are of course additional images once the work in hand has been published. Additional data for any item already published is greatly welcomed at any time.
Image Integrity
Every printing process has been used for catalogues with the earliest being hand engraved and later photo-reproction methods. Particularly in early screen printing the film had to be masked with an light-opaque over the positive. This mask was cut-out by hand tracing the outline of each item with a sharp knife - when insufficient care was taken portions of an item may have had part of their edges removed or part of an originally dark background left in. Both of these can result in a slight distortion of an individual image.
Some items were photographed in groups with an unsuitable lens that results in items on the edge of the image appearing skewed.
Some of the other reprographic processes used could also give slight distortions such as stretching on one axis and in extreme cases the film being allowed to curl during the exposure of the printing plate.
Member Projects
Private research projects, rights to image use remain with their respective owners even if the images also appear in the main sections.
Thank you, Frank Andrews 2017
Moser 1948 discussion
- Details
- Category: Discussion
- Published on Thursday, 06 September 2012 12:28
- Written by Frank Andrews
- Hits: 1322
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.
