A large group of original ca. 1920-1940 Czech glass molds, most attributed to the former companies of Henry G. Schlevogt and Heinrich Hoffmann, are being put back in production.

Further improvements have been made on copies of expensive Art Deco Czech original perfumes. One way to detect previous copies was by the absence of a dauber. Now, new stoppers include a dauber. The daubers already appear on copies of some of the most sought after originals including Nudes and Pearls shown above.

Original Lacy Medallion was produced by U.S. Glass Company, ca. 1905. Old colors include clear crystal, transparent green, clear with ruby flashing and cobalt blue.

The original Cambridge Glass Company of Cambridge, Ohio made a number of electric lamps based on flower frog figures. One of these original lamps used a figure called Draped Lady.

The milk glass item at left appears both as a flask, with a sheared mouth, and also as a vase with fluted mouth which is shown here. A photo of the flask version appears on page 707 in American Bottles Flasks and Their Ancestry, H. McKearin K. Wilson, Crown, NY 1978 (out of print).

During the 1970s, Venetian glass workers made many custom items for American wholesalers of antique reproductions. Many pieces of 19th century glassware was copied including paperweights. A number of new paperweight styles were made with encased dates in imitation of famous antique paperweight makers like St. Louis and Baccarat. While not a problem for paperweight specialists, the new dated weights are frequently sold for old by general line dealers and auction houses through lack of knowledge. Telling the older dated weights from the new copies is relatively easy if you know what to look for.

Blue Princess 9 inch dinner plates are being reproduced. The example shown in this article was purchased in an antique mall in Tennessee.

A group of new blown glass perfumes have been showing up at malls and shows. All are made of very thin glass with lots of gold decoration. The majority of these new perfumes have a distinctive twisted leafshaped stopper crimped with groovesFig. 9. About 90 of the new blown glass perfumes in this group have this stopper. The new stoppers are ground around the collar and have blown daubers. Wholesale cost is 79 each.

Cambridge Glass Company of Cambridge, Ohio (19021958) made the original Crown Tuscan. It was a pink color ranging from opaque to slightly translucent made from 1932 until the 1950s. The word Tuscan was inspired by Tuscany, a region of Italy.