GLATT (1897 ON)
Glatt means "soft" or "smooth", and referst to a soft iridescence on top of a single layer of colored glass. The most common is Bronze Glatt, a kind of olive green, but there is also Creta Glatt (Crete Green), and Rubin Glatt (Red).
Most of my Glatt collection is showcased at www.loetz.com . Max Emmanuel of London commissioned many pieces of Glatt, whose shapes resemble vessels from Greek or Roman antiquity.
 1. GREEN GLATT AND BRONZE GLATT
Sometimes, the Glatt surface treatment is applied to vessels that are not transparent, resulting in a very dark color. This teal green barber bottle is marked 2748 in gold at the bottom:
 2. 7492;1896
neu 589-1900
And this is an example of Rubin Glatt:
 3. 6772-1896
NEU 322;1900
This is a pair of green Glatts for which I have not found documentation; yet, the treatment of the foot is usually attributed to Marie Kirschner. I personally believe they might be Marie Waltl:
 4. KIRSCHNER ATTRIBUTED GREEN GLATTS
Compare with these, also attributed to Kirschner. In this case, the surface has a matte finish:
 5. KIRSHNER ATTRIBUTED VASE AND CANDLESTICKS
Finally, a rare example of an early Loetz vase made for Lobmeyer. Documentation appears in Waltraud Neuwirth's Loetz Austria 1905-1918:
 6. P.360; 337-338
Notice the third vase on top from the left.
In the next figure, the vase in the middle, top:
 7. P. 358: 333
Oddly enough, this shape does not appear in Ricke 2. And now, a picture of the vase:
 8. LOETZ LOBMEYER VASE
MARBLED GLASS (1893-98)
Marbled glass is quite well documented in Bohemian Glass 1 by Robert and Deborah Truitt, as well as in the Loetz website. These are examples of Carneol and Malachite:
 9. MARBLED GROUP
| MEDINA (1904)
Relatively rare, I only have one in my collection:  10. MEDINA
METALLIN (1905) Metallin comes in several colors, green being the most frequently found. This is a good 10" example:
 11. METALLIN
MINIATURES I first fell in love with Loetz miniatures from a picture in Victor Arwas' book on Liberty, since they were sold through their shop in London. Some say they were meant for dollhouses; another theory holds that they were given as perfume samples in fancy stores of the period; still a third holds they were salesmen's samples.
 11. GREEN GROUP
Interestingly enough, the Passau Museum exhibits a collection of them, but they do not appear in any Loetz book. I have identified Candia, Creta and Cobalt Silberiris and Papillon among them. One of mine has a paper label: "Made In Czechoslovakia."  12. GOLD GROUP On a more personal level, years ago I became paralyzed from the neck down due to an allergic reaction to a flu vaccine, and I spent three and a half months in the hospital. I credit Loetz miniatures with keeping my sanity and helping me to find a reason to live. Why? My mate used to bring them to the hospital so I could try to close my hands around them and feel them, and to remind me of home.  13. BLUE GROUP
 14. My latest. Quite rare. NAUTILUS (1903) Only one example in my collection, the best I've been able to find. Please notice that, as far as Nautilus goes, the rigaree only appears in gold when used in combination with white martelé, [NOTE: I JUST FOUND OUT KRALIK HAS THE IDENTICAL COMBINATION OF GOLD AND WHITE MARTELE! IN THAT CASE, SHAPE INDICATES IT IS NOT LOETZ]
 15. NAUTILUS
NEPTUNE (1902-03) As with other Loetz lines, Neptune, which I used to call "cactus" before finding out its proper name, comes mostly in Creta Glatt and Creta Silberiris. That is, mostly in green. Other colors, including Candia, are relatively rare. The vase on the left corresponds to R1 328-1902
 16. NEPTUNE CRETA, GLATT
Neptune also appears in shell forms:  17. NEPTUNE SHELL At our local flea market, I found this vase as "Stevens and Williams." One of the rarest Neptunes, white iridized glass with applied green chain decoration:  18. NEPTUNE WITH APPLIED CHAIN |