(6) Czech Moser Multicolored Cordial Glasses. All similar designs but slightly different sizes and shapes, with the same paneled pattern of long octagonal colored glass around the top edge in red, blue, and black. One has the remains of a label on the underside which reads "Made in Czechoslovakia." 

Size: 2 1/2 x 1 3/4 in. 

Moser A.S. is a luxury glass manufacturer based in Karlovy Vary, Czech Republic (previously Bohemia, Austria-Hungary), known for manufacturing stemware, decorative glassware, glass gifts and various art engravings. Ludwig Moser opened the company in 1857 as a polishing and glass engraving workshop, and in 1873 he was awarded a medal for merit at the Vienna International Exhibition for their work, which led to his company being appointed the exclusive supplier of glass to Emperor Franz Joseph I. In 1893 they absorbed a Germany factory already employing 400 people, renaming the company to Glassworks Ludwig Moser & Sons as his sons Gustav and Rudolf became equal partners. The worldwide Depression in the 1930s reduced the staff to 240, and in 1938 the Moser family fled during the annexation, with the Nazis using the factory as a supply depot. The Communists nationalized the Czech glass industry in 1948 under the name Crystalex, although due to Moser’s international reputation the family was allowed to retain some independence, and today a factory museum shows the story of the company with more than 2,000 pieces on display. Besides having four retail outlets in the Czech Republic, Moser has a worldwide network of retailers, with their US distribution company originally established in Virginia in 1957, and they remain one of the world’s most famous and collectable brands of hand-made luxury crystal. 

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