Featured Frosted Glass Paperweight? Car Mascot?

This is cool. Stands 5 1/2" tall, 5 1/4" long. The base measures 2 3/4" across. Has a B in a box mark and also a mark on the base.

 

Baccarat springs to mind. I'd say not a mascot with no way of fixing it.

 

Paperweight. Nice one. I wondered Baccarat but I don't recognise that base mark. JASM is it?

I wonder if it's Boyd's?

 

I don't know about the maker, but it seems that the NASM is the Holland America logo.

 

Thanks everyone!

Kath

 

Oooo - could this be it?

http://www.luciennebloch.com/glass.htm

Made by the N.V. Glasfabriek Leerdam?

 

Cool site. My angel is a hood ornament!

 

It isn't any Holland America logo I've seen on their ships.

 

I wish I had a car to put that on. Beautiful piece.

I'll swap you NASM for Baccarat = always fully spelled out; and Boyd which is a B in a Diamond. Also BTW, they're out of business. Closed. Gone.

On NASM. How is that related to Holland America?

 

re: NASM

Holland America Line was founded in 1873 as the Nederlandsche-Amerikaansche Stoomvaart Maatschappij (Dutch-American Steamship Company)

 

If they've ever used that, it must be a very old logo then. (I'm a bit of a Holland America fan!)

 

Thanks for NASM.
But I am removing myself from here super pronto.
Before someone asks me to say that out loud.

 

If they've ever used that, it must be a very old logo then. (I'm a bit of a Holland America fan!)

Ownedbybear -

I THINK that around 1970 or 1971, they changed the name/logo to the Holland America one we know better today ...

I, too, am a fan of the cruise line! Haven't been on one in years, but I have fond memories of several HA cruises to lots of cool places in the 80's and 90's.

 

Ok I finally had a minute and the brains to do a google search...for Lucienne Bloch glass marks....found the B mark.

https://www.google.com/search?q=Luc...X&ved=0CCgQsARqFQoTCPni_pun48gCFYgcPgodGDQA2Q

 

Lucienne Bloch for sure. The angel hood ornament piece is on their website.

 

Lalique also made hood ornaments in the style of Bentley & RR !

 

The angel was designed to be car mascot but in later years, when car mascots were banned, was also produced to be sold as a souvenir on NASM ships

 

When were car mascots banned & why ?

 

To all the youngsters here...................

Auto hood ornaments can do quite a bit of extra damage to your body as it bounces off the fender, heading across the hood, but being impeded by that cute little Diana the huntress who gives you a free appendectomy (or castration) on the way by.

That's why they were banned.