![]() ![]() The post-war decorations were not as well done as pre-war decorations and over time the differences in quality became more and more obvious. In years past, German decorators had the benefit of many generations of father-to-son training and many persons started painting by the age of ten. The name Glassexport was used for the organization which would market the glass through world wide offices.Īs production resumed, one of the first types of decorations produced was "Mary Gregory." Painting Quarkmal, which translates from the German as "white people," was not a simple task. Committees were set up to run the glass industry with all the glass factories united under the single name of Crystalex. Fortunately most of the glass makers were native Czechs and Slovaks and production of undecorated glass could continue. By 1951, the Communists had nationalized every glass factory and expelled everyone of German ancestry which included thousands of glass decorators. ![]() Then in 1947, the Communist Party took power in Czechoslovakia. At that time, the glass industry was still in the hands of Czechs of German origin including such firms including such firms as Lobmeyr, Moser, Muhlhaus, Riedel, Hartman & Ditrich and others. The end of WW I brought numerous changes to the Czech glass houses, but the during the period after WW II they were completely reorganized.įor a brief time, the glasshouses struggled to resume their prewar production.
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