Prussian Blue Glass Target Ball

Our Price: £850.00

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Glass Target Ball from the 1880's

Superb dark Prussian blue - strong pattern variety - extremely rare

The photo shows this example as near black, but with light shining through it is a superb blue, almost a tint of purple

Those are the so-called "CZECH" balls, even though Czechoslovakia did not exist when these balls were made. The area was called Bohemia and belonged to the Austro-Hungarian Empire until 1918 and was predominantly inhabited by German-speaking people.
The balls were found only recently by a German dealer in the town of Gablonz, a glass-producing area for the last 300 years. These target balls are known in yellow-green, apple-green, amethyst, Prussian blue and black glass, in a strong pattern and a weak pattern.
According to the information that is available to me, two respectively three of the black glass and Prussian-blue balls are known, six of the amethyst and 14 of the apple green.

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