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<p>[QUOTE="IvaPan, post: 8206183, member: 78949"]KSW, same with me! I will never be able to wear all the pieces I have accumulated, and mind that I haven't done it for long time, started just a year or so ago. Madness!</p><p><br /></p><p><font size="4">It certainly used to be during the Cold War. When Soviets were given half of Europe by the victorious allies, old Bohemia and later Czechoslovakia was among their trophies. And this is a region famous with glass production for centuries. It became communist, part of Comecon and its glass jewelry industry worked at full speed and supplied the whole USSR dominated block. Under the prohibition for real stone and precious metal trade under communists, Czech glass jewelry was almost the only option for the population of the Eastern block, and was extremely popular. Now shreds of it still exist, the old Jablonex, a state own giant of glass jewelry, bankrupted around 2000 and was substituted by several small companies still producing Czech glass but there are many other competitors, especially China and India. </font></p><p><font size="4"><br /></font></p><p><font size="4">Thank you, Bronwen! I also pondered about sapphiret but it looks somehow different, IMO. The palette is similar but the looks differ. This one has kind of stripes of different colours that flow into each other when the brooch is moved while in sapphiret the colours are diffused (or spilled??) all over the surface. Don't know if I express it well. Also IMO it is not old enough to be it.</font></p><p><font size="4"><br /></font></p><p><font size="4">Absolutely! Tried again and will post the result in a while.</font></p><p><font size="4"><br /></font></p><p><font size="4"></font>[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>
[QUOTE="IvaPan, post: 8206183, member: 78949"]KSW, same with me! I will never be able to wear all the pieces I have accumulated, and mind that I haven't done it for long time, started just a year or so ago. Madness! [SIZE=4]It certainly used to be during the Cold War. When Soviets were given half of Europe by the victorious allies, old Bohemia and later Czechoslovakia was among their trophies. And this is a region famous with glass production for centuries. It became communist, part of Comecon and its glass jewelry industry worked at full speed and supplied the whole USSR dominated block. Under the prohibition for real stone and precious metal trade under communists, Czech glass jewelry was almost the only option for the population of the Eastern block, and was extremely popular. Now shreds of it still exist, the old Jablonex, a state own giant of glass jewelry, bankrupted around 2000 and was substituted by several small companies still producing Czech glass but there are many other competitors, especially China and India. Thank you, Bronwen! I also pondered about sapphiret but it looks somehow different, IMO. The palette is similar but the looks differ. This one has kind of stripes of different colours that flow into each other when the brooch is moved while in sapphiret the colours are diffused (or spilled??) all over the surface. Don't know if I express it well. Also IMO it is not old enough to be it. Absolutely! Tried again and will post the result in a while. [/SIZE][/QUOTE]
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