vintage suede purse with lalique-like glass clasp

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SteveHHMD

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I bought a vintage suede purse with silk lining and a cut glass clasp that has a lalique-like style but there are no marks anywhere on the purse. Does anyone have any ideas?
 
That's really gorgeous....but without an identifying mark, it's going to be hard to place. Deco, of course, and good enough to be French....or German/Austrian/etc.
 
clasp

I had more pictures, but I couldn't figure out how to post more than one picture. Here's a better photo of the clasp.
 
Molded camphor? glass, probably Czecho Deco. Most of the Art Deco sterling/marcasite jewelry is marked Germany...don't know if that applies to your bag.
 
another photo

I had tried to post one more photo. I think I'll get it up this time. Thanks for your input. Unortunately there's a little tear in the leather.
 
another photo

I had tried to post one more photo. I think I'll get it up this time. Thanks for your input. Unortunately there's a little tear in the leather.
 
Marcasite or cut steel inlays/sets? Looks like cut steel to me- but hard to see(poet, didn't no it)
Czech was/is known for the glass(the history is amazing). let's get some good pictures up and really see what is going on with this "Jewel" of a purse!!
I Believe Czech glass items are Not usually marked 1940's & Pre (we need Linn on this) with the exceptions of gold & silver(in some rare cases/not all) & a few very few exceptions other-wise. Sort-of Marked by syle like Julianna items.
 
The clasp is gorgeous. I would like to see more photos of the whole piece, too. If you click on Post Reply at the bottom of this message you will be taken to the top and can insert the
image(s). It took me awhile to figure out how to do this.

I think the stones are marcasites. The clasp looks Deco; the molded glass certainly resembles Lalique, and may be French. There are so many unmarked pieces of jewelry from this period but I haven't seen many with molded glass like this one. KK is correct that you can usually identify Czech jewelry from the style, and the components. However, most stones used in pre-WWII jewelry made in the US were imported from Bohemia, (what is now the Czech Republiv and Slovkia) and Austria - as were many of the findings used in jewelry manufactured in the US. Providence, R.I. was the costume jewelry capital of the world.

Some Czech costume jewelry is marked - not just pieces set in gold and silver. Czechoslovakia was formed right after WWI so anything marked that way cannot be earlier than 1918. It was dissolved at the beginning of WWII, reformed after WWII, and then split again in 1992. The country has a long turbulant history best read on wikipedia. Some pieces are marked with different spellings, sometimes depending on where they were being exported to. I remember Ginger Moro explaining the French spelling of the country on Jewelcollect. I do not think the purse or the clasp are Czech or German.

Hope this is not adding to the confusion.

Linn
 
lovely clutch..l agree with mary alice probably Bohemia, in the style of lalique...deco/nouveau cusper l would guess at....click it against your teeth gently over it to denote whether it is a celluloid or glass..

is this for you or are you sellig it?
 
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