Featured Czecho-Slovak Red Spiral-Threaded Vase

I got this vase ~35 years ago at a church rummage sale, an' what it cost me was a lot, then. I went back all 3 days, chatted up the seller quite a bit...but in the end paid what she wanted for it...an' wasn't too surprised she hadn't sold it yet.
Kept it for years in a south facing window, 'cause I am still besotted with its flash of fire when the sun strikes it. It's one of those things I love, but that I've decided to sell before I stumble into it an' shatter it. Seems I'm clumsier than I was, somehow. Anyway, I thought to share it with all my friends here before it goes bye-bye.

It's 8 3/4" tall, to the cut, chamfered an' polished rim, which is 5 3/4" diameter, the foot is 3 3/4"; weight is ~30 oz. The red threads (0.044"/1mm at the rim, but may be slightly finer near the foot) an' everything else about it, are perfect; zero chips, cracks, missing thread or other blemish; flawless. How in the world a single semi-molten glass thread can be so well controlled is a real puzzle to me; I suppose it may have been machine made. I've looked many times for some other mark on it to ID the maker...without success. The hyphenated? (spaced) spelling of Czecho-Slovakia may offer a clue about when it was made.

If anyone can reasonably attribute this to a known maker, I'll be thrilled to know about it. Hope you like it...thanks for lookin'!

 

The hyphenated name turned up on jewerly between 1920 (country didn't exist before that) and 1936, when they got chomped by the scumbag Nazis. After the War the hyphen went away. Glass should be the same, but who knows.

 

Someone on this site discusses what they describe as machine threading on a similar vase. Unfortunately they don't name a maker.

https://www.glassmessages.com/index.php/topic,25214.msg139787.html#msg139787

"Machine threaded" means the item is set into a device that holds and turns it and applies the threading using precise timing of all movements such that the thread is wound with exact spacing and 'straightness'. It is not necessarily the same thing as "industrially made" if, by that, you mean "mass production". But with the "threading machine" all items made, whether that was two or two thousand, would have equal quality threads."

 

The split "O" in these acid etched CZECHO-SLOVAKIA marks often times(but not always) points to Kralik as the maker. In any case, definitely between the wars as stated.

 

Yes, it does.
The hyphenated name was used from the fall of the Austro-Hungarian Empire and subsequent independence of Czecho-Slovakia in 1918, until 1939 when Nazi Germany invaded the country. These are the correct dates, btw.

Officially other ways of writing the name were used as well, but the hyphenated name is seen a lot on products of the period.

 

Oh YES! Kralik would be very nice, especially if that can be verified...Thank you!

Good info, sis...in a moment of slack, I'll follow up on that, see if I can find a video of such process. Thanks!

 

This site has some Kralik decorative technique example. There is a spiral section though only a few examples.

Kralik Alphabetical Decor Index https://share.google/T43VVpPHTCGgDkpXW

 

@wlwhittier not quite the same but my candle holders would look great with that vase lol.