Green-tinted glass base (Collectors No. 1293)
20,00 €
Beautiful, flawless green glass base that can be used as a plate, candy bowl or just for beauty.
Produced at the Meleski glass factory, design by J. Lorup.
No chips or chippings.
One deep scratch on the inside of the base, there are also micro scratches on the bottom.
Dimensions: height 2.5 cm, diameter 14 cm.
NB: if you would like more information, please contact us and please note that this is a recycled product.
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Johannes Lorup (11. XI 1901 in the village of Oiu, Vana-Tänassilma parish, Viljandi County – 6 May 1943 in Sevurallag, Sverdlovsk region), glass manufacturer, founder of the modern Estonian glass industry, owner of the glass factory of his own name and lessee of the Meleski glass factory, also founders and owners of the Agency Center of the University of Tallinn A.I.K. Joh. Lorup & Co (1939, later UÜ AIK Joh. Lorup & Ko) and AS Carl F. Gahlnbäck (1940).
From 1924 to 1933 he leased and managed the Meleski glass factory in Viljandi County. Lorup expanded the Meleski factory and organized courses for glass masters. In five years he brought the struggling Meleski glass factory to profit and increased the number of workers to two hundred by 1929. In 1932–34, Lorup established his own factory in the former Bekker shipyard building on the Kopli Peninsula in Tallinn, which began operations on 10 January 1934 (Glass and Crystal Factory Joh. Lorup, co-owner was diplomat and industrialist August Puskar (5 October 1886–7 April 1942). A large part of the equipment and some of the workers from the Meleski factory were transferred to the new company. The factory produced plain glass (bottles and technical glass products), in 1935 a fine-grinding department began operating, and from 1937 crystal glass of high artistic value (toilet fittings, bowls, glasses and vases) was also produced. The number of workers at the Lorup factory increased to 400 by 1937 and to 500 by 1940. The Lorup factory’s plain glass, semi-crystal and crystal catalogues published in 1939 contained a total of over a thousand products. In early March 1940, the company’s representative store was opened in Tallinn at Vabaduse plats 7.
1940 Joh. Lorup’s glass and crystal factory was nationalized, Lorup continued to work as a technical manager. In the spring of 1941, the company was renamed Tarbeklaas, and operated under that name until 1990. After privatization in 1994, AS Skankristall began manufacturing glass there, which also reintroduced the Lorup trademark in 2001, but went bankrupt in 2002. Production was taken over by OÜ Tarbeklaas, and now OÜ Glasstone operates in the same location.
Source: Estonian Encyclopedia
