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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Any Jewelry, post: 6261460, member: 2844&quot;]That Leo Popper brooch is stunning! Both the undulating metalwork with the Renaissance-inspired swirls as well as that wonderfully unusual cab.<img src="styles/default/xenforo/clear.png" class="mceSmilieSprite mceSmilie49" alt=":happy:" unselectable="on" unselectable="on" /></p><p><br /></p><p>I would have thought German, but it turns out it is Austrian-American:</p><p><br /></p><p>&quot;Immigrating from Austria in the late 1800’s, Leo Popper made manufactured buttons in both black and colored glass. Gorgeous veins of silver run through his colorful buttons, creating a unique look to his glass.</p><p><br /></p><p>Leo Popper &amp; Sons operated for 91 years as manufacturers of glass in New York City. Their buttons and ornaments can be seen today in well-known edifices such as The Cathedral of St. John the Divine and the Washington Cathedral. Popper also provided glass for L. C. Tiffany &amp; Co., as well as others who worked in iridescent glass in that period.&quot;</p><p><br /></p><p><a href="https://www.elizabethngo.com/glass/leo-popper-glass-buttons-set-in-sterling-rings" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://www.elizabethngo.com/glass/leo-popper-glass-buttons-set-in-sterling-rings" rel="nofollow">https://www.elizabethngo.com/glass/leo-popper-glass-buttons-set-in-sterling-rings</a></p><p><br /></p><p>More on Leo Popper, the technique of your cab is called &quot;silvered glass&quot;:</p><p><a href="https://glassian.org/Prism/Popper/buttons.html" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://glassian.org/Prism/Popper/buttons.html" rel="nofollow">https://glassian.org/Prism/Popper/buttons.html</a></p><p><br /></p><p>This article has him born near Gablonz, the famous costume jewellery town in Bohemia:</p><p>&quot;Austrian <a href="http://glassian.org/Prism/Popper/buttons.html" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="http://glassian.org/Prism/Popper/buttons.html" rel="nofollow">Leo Popper</a> came to New York as a child in the 1840’s. After a stint gold mining and running a saloon in California, he returned to New York and did what many young people dream of today. He gathered a group of peers and founded a start-up artisan glass factory in Brooklyn. Why glass? Popper was originally from the Bohemia region of Austria, a village near Goblanz (Jablonec nad Nisou), a centuries-old center for glass and jewelry making.&quot;</p><p><a href="https://themomtropolis.com/from-black-buttons-to-black-tom/" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://themomtropolis.com/from-black-buttons-to-black-tom/" rel="nofollow">https://themomtropolis.com/from-black-buttons-to-black-tom/</a>[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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