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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;ritzyvintage, post: 3433586, member: 18191&quot;]Certainly not by Loetz, but continental/Austrian. The lack of a pontil mark and having looked at the bases of Your vases, they were both mould-blown using a green batch of glass and then sprayed with metallic-salts to produce the iridescent surface before the glass had cooled. The metal mounts were added out of house at time of manufacture, but not by the glass-working factory... Vases of this type will display sharp/unpolished top edge rims to them. Polishing the rims is both costly &amp; time consuming. Only by attaching a pontil rod to the base of the vase could the tops be worked on by the glass blower to leave a smooth fire-polished edge, however as the majority of these vase-types had metal mounts added to them there wasn&#039;t the need to worry about the rough top-edges left by the manufacturing process.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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