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Message:: [QUOTE="ritzyvintage, post: 3444194, member: 18191"]Very little European glass was exported to USA during the 1930s & 1940s. The costs of transportation coupled with distribution made things far too expensive. The years of Depression were also a governing factor, and then of course WWII played havoc with transatlantic trade. It is also true that USA had no financial need to export their own glass throughout Europe, and so it is only relatively recently that collectors here have access to examples of American glassware, and/or have seen much of it, apart from say L C Tiffany and Carnival Glass. The devastating effects of bombing throughout WWII destroyed many glass producing factories in France and Germany, and many never recovered. This in turn made the production of Art Deco moulded glass fairly limited. hundreds of factory moulds & catalogues were lost whilst some well-known makers such as Etling, for example, met their deaths in Nazi concentration camps.[/QUOTE]