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<p>[QUOTE="Lucille.b, post: 182049, member: 51"]On a whim, I decided to google: "Cechoslovakia" and got a surprising number of hits, so started to think this might be a legit variation of the spelling.</p><p><br /></p><p>Found a forum where one person had an art glass vase and metal collar. Glass was signed "Czechoslovakia" but the metal was stamped "Cechoslovakia" so, the topic of the spelling variations came up. I'll cut and paste one of the responses:</p><p><br /></p><p><i>OK, so here is some info on the spelling. The metal portion of the vase appears to use a Ce as the start of Czechoslovakia. I think that a close examination of the C will show that there is a mark over the C, an inverted V. This is referred to as a C-hatchek or a C-caron. The use of this character would likely place the production of the metal between 1918 and 1921. The use of this character on imported product to the U.S. was banned by a modification to the McKinley Tariff act in 1921. The spelling was then changed to Czechoslovakia where the Cz represented the phonetic sound of the C-Hatchek.</i>[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>
[QUOTE="Lucille.b, post: 182049, member: 51"]On a whim, I decided to google: "Cechoslovakia" and got a surprising number of hits, so started to think this might be a legit variation of the spelling. Found a forum where one person had an art glass vase and metal collar. Glass was signed "Czechoslovakia" but the metal was stamped "Cechoslovakia" so, the topic of the spelling variations came up. I'll cut and paste one of the responses: [I]OK, so here is some info on the spelling. The metal portion of the vase appears to use a Ce as the start of Czechoslovakia. I think that a close examination of the C will show that there is a mark over the C, an inverted V. This is referred to as a C-hatchek or a C-caron. The use of this character would likely place the production of the metal between 1918 and 1921. The use of this character on imported product to the U.S. was banned by a modification to the McKinley Tariff act in 1921. The spelling was then changed to Czechoslovakia where the Cz represented the phonetic sound of the C-Hatchek.[/I][/QUOTE]
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