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<p>[QUOTE="dgbjwc, post: 9735870, member: 308"]I think you will have trouble dating this one. Cristal de Sevres is a French import/export company. The quality looks very good but I don't think the company has been in existence for a terribly long time. Researching the company history and/or its marks seems to lead nowhere beyond mention of a glassworks that existed in the 1700's- early 1800's. There seems to be a pretty huge gap between then and the late 20th century. I suspect that Cristal de Sevres is a trade name for various crystal items produced by an anonymous company or companies somewhere in France. The closest analogy I can think of is Tiffany. Tiffany closed it's glass studios in the early 1930's but continues to mark glass under the Tiffany name. It's still good quality glass but could come from anywhere. I could be wrong about Cristal de Sevres. It's difficult to find detailed books on contemporary French crystal.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>
[QUOTE="dgbjwc, post: 9735870, member: 308"]I think you will have trouble dating this one. Cristal de Sevres is a French import/export company. The quality looks very good but I don't think the company has been in existence for a terribly long time. Researching the company history and/or its marks seems to lead nowhere beyond mention of a glassworks that existed in the 1700's- early 1800's. There seems to be a pretty huge gap between then and the late 20th century. I suspect that Cristal de Sevres is a trade name for various crystal items produced by an anonymous company or companies somewhere in France. The closest analogy I can think of is Tiffany. Tiffany closed it's glass studios in the early 1930's but continues to mark glass under the Tiffany name. It's still good quality glass but could come from anywhere. I could be wrong about Cristal de Sevres. It's difficult to find detailed books on contemporary French crystal.[/QUOTE]
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