Pair of THEREISENTHAL Crystal SCHMIDT GARDA Rose Swirl Hollow Stem Champagne Glasses

Pair of Vintage NEW, Thereisenthal hand blown crystal, hollow stem, F. SCHMIDT GARDA Rose Swirl Champagne Glasses. These glasses have the same dark pink, ribbed swirl design and clear glass feet as the other glasses in the "Rose Swirl" collection but these glasses have that unusual hollow stem, which allows drinks to fill all the way down to the foot of the glass. F. Schmidt Company designed and patented the Garda patterns in the US and had the glasses made by Theresienthal in Germany and imported them to the US. Theresienthal, the famed Bavarian crystal glass manufacturer started in 1836, by request of King Ludwig I of Bavaria and used the already well known techniques and styles of the local Bohemian glassmakers of the time. Theresienthal became the producer of hand made crystal for the German, Russian and French courts and served luxury markets all around the world and still do today, using both in-house and outside designers to produce new collections. Each of these glass