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A lovely collection of hand-cut glass crystal models came up for discussion this year at the Denver show. Pala International’s Bill Larson first viewed the set of models in the mid-1970s when it was acquired by Phil Gregory, miniature mineral collector extraoridinaire.

“These models look to be the same as the models sold by Krantz in their early 20th century catalogs, but the set size (20) is not one of the sizes sold by Krantz (the smallest Krantz sets were 18 and 24). Krantz probably contracted with Frič for their colored and colorless glass models. Unfortunately, I have never seen any literature on Frič.”