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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;SYNCHRONCITY, post: 1986736, member: 6283&quot;]Hi guys! I hope all of you are doing well. My usual collecting forte is antique German and French bisque dolls. I have been collecting many different kinds of antiques also, but am definitely not an expert in anything. I just like things from the Victorian era and early 20th Century. I also love things specifically from the Art Nouveau movement.</p><p><br /></p><p>About a year ago I got hooked on collecting boxes, especially glass and porcelain ones. I like anything enameled and hand painted. About two weeks I ago I specifically added two antique C.F. Monroe Wavecrest opalware dresser boxes to my growing collection for the first time. Both designs are known as Helmschmied Swirls. I googled the history of the company until my fingers bled, but still have a thirst to know more...</p><p><br /></p><p>What I have noticed is a lot of antique glass enameled boxes on the market are usually called &quot;Moser Glass&quot; or &quot;Bohemian Glass&quot;. Anything with Mary Gregory type paintings, painted flowers or painted designs all seem to get that Bohemian moniker. For many years I assumed it was true. However, I am starting to become perplexed because as I have been finding Wavecrest or Wavecrest style boxes that are half opalware, half clear colored glass with enamel like the Bohemian ones.</p><p><br /></p><p>In the pictures I looked at, one half of these boxes really look like American Wavecrest, or Mount Washington opalware glass, but the other half of the boxes look like the so called Bohemian ones. Most of these boxes identified as being Moser Bohemian glass.</p><p><br /></p><p>Could all along the ones that I thought were &quot;Moser or Bohemian&quot;, be American? I heard that Mary Gregory an American glass decorator never even existed, while others swear this person did work for the Boston &amp; Sandwich Glass Co. I am getting myself confused now.</p><p><br /></p><p>Here are some of the boxes in my collection (pics included), along with the two definite Wavecreset opalware boxes in my collection.</p><p><br /></p><p>One is apple green with a Mary Gregory style lady painted, another is a pink shell design shaped box with flowers. I am now thinking that they may not be Bohemian after all, but American. Another is a footed, enameled amber/topaz colored box and another is a blue satin glass enameled flower footed box. Anyone know who may have made them? Could American glass makers have gotten glass blanks from Czechoslovakia and painted them in American glass factories by any chance?</p><p><br /></p><p>The last 3 pictures are of boxes that aren&#039;t mine. I found these pics on the internet with half Wavecrest style opaque opalware glass and half clear colored glass and another is a blue footed Mary Gregory Style Box.</p><p><br /></p><p>If anyone really knows there glass and can educate me, I would love to be your pupil. Thanks so much in advance for all of your replies.</p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]247410[/ATTACH] [ATTACH=full]247411[/ATTACH] [ATTACH=full]247412[/ATTACH]&nbsp; [ATTACH=full]247414[/ATTACH] [ATTACH=full]247418[/ATTACH] [ATTACH=full]247419[/ATTACH] [ATTACH=full]247422[/ATTACH] [ATTACH=full]247424[/ATTACH]</p><p>[ATTACH=full]247425[/ATTACH][/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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