Ah, you were one of the people bidding against me.....
Had not bid on Ebay for quite some time, but this one is indeed very interesting.
Looking at those cards, I believe they are most likely a mix between Czech and Venetian production.
There is a book on this company and their collection:
Jirouskova, Jana. Albert Sachse's collection in the National museum. National museum Prague, 2011
Here is the info in my book on Beads from Jablonec on Sachse:
One of the masters in 'pleasing the overseas customers' was Albert Sachse (1851-1921). His first business was with a partner, Franz Assam. Their company Assam & Sachse was founded in Jablonec in 1876. One of the main products of this company were glass bangles that were exported to India. These bangles were rings, cut from large glass tubes and were decorated by cutting and guilding. Later on, bangles were also made by lampworkers shaping thin rods of glass into a circle.
In the late 1800's, Sachse set up his own export company by the name of A. Sachse & Co.
This company quickly gained momentum (22): 'As early as 1895 he set up a branch in Venice. (…) At the beginning of the 20th century the company Sachse ran workshops in Berlin, Hamburg, London, Moscow, Paris and Vienna and beside Venice, it took its share in the production of glass pearls in Bayreuth, Germany. In the Jablonec headquarters alone, almost one hundred people found employment. (…) Before the First World War it had branches in Lagos (today's Nigeria), Porto-Novo (Benin), numerous business partners in Abidjan, Grand-Bassam (Ivory Coast) as well as in Accra and Cape Coast (Ghana).'
As said, one of the things the Sachse company was good at, was documenting local beads and objects, to be made into glass in Jablonec. (22) 'He managed to place his employees in German expeditions, which revealed the secrets of the Black Continent and helped to cover the costs of the expeditions. The Sachse's salesmen could study the taste and demand of native people and, by way of exchange, gain artefacts from them, which then served as models in the jewellery production.' Not only did Sachse gain great insight into local demands, he also gathered a great collection of African and Asian artefacts, which is currently owned by the Naprstek museum in Prague and the Museum of glass and Costume Jewellery in Jablonec.
'The focus on exotic markets brought the firm high profits, but it was also the cause of its fall. During the First World War, Sachse suffered big financial losses. Far-away markets were lost and new ones impossible to find.' In 1920, his business was sold to the Venetians. With his money from the sale, he invested in the production of German wax beads, but the fall of the German Mark made him lose his investment. Albert Sachse died in 1921.
Thank you Floor, this is great.. Yea it was me bidding, also thought they were nice and interesting so I am happy to have won them.
I have a pdf of your book somewhere on my computer, should have thought to look in it also.
The beads on the last card especially look more Czech than Venetian so I also think it is a mix of both.
Thanks again for the great info.
Wayne
Wayne, I'm glad you won so we could see the cards in detail here on BCN.
Thanks for showing off your latest treasure!
What an amazing find! Thanks also for sharing them here. a valuable resource.
Info on A. Sachse & Co.:
Glass and Costume Jewelry Museum of Jablonec and Nisou, Czech Republic: 50+/- cards of A. Sachse beads.
https://scholar.google.com/scholar?hl=en&as_sdt=0%2C5&q=%E2%80%9CSachse+%26+Co%E2%80%9D+beads&btnG=
https://archive.org/search.php?query=%22%20A.%20Sachse%20%26%20Co.%22%20beads&sin=TXT
https://www.google.com/search?safe=active&rlz=1T4ADFA_enUS460US460&ei=2kmxXOSbDM7ktQXxpbDYBg&q=%22a.+sachse+%26+co%22+bead&oq=%22a.+sachse+%26+co%22+bead&gs_l=psy-ab.3..33i160.22031.24916..26600...0.0..0.175.766.0j5......0....1..gws-wiz.......33i22i29i30.ERkjeJrChzU
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Question:
On card #3, do you know how are the stripes running the width of the beads are created? Great cards and beads!
If you mean the white and blue stripes, they were made with a cane of twisted white blue glass that is spiraled onto the bead.
Wayne
Hi- if you are referring to the white "belts" around the middles of the top 3 beads at the right on the card, it appears that the bead starts off being formed as a spherical shape on the mandrel then a stripe of white is wound around the equator, then the rosebuds are trailed on, -one is left as a sphere, one is pressed into a tabular round shape and the topmost one has been smoothed into an oval or ellipsoid shape. it also shows the same 3 shapes with more varieties of designs.
i am most impressed with the ones at lower right because 2 very different colours, transparencies and qualities of glass are worked together to make a 2-colour background -then also embellished with rosebuds etc-.and then well annealed so they don't tend to crack.
