[7] At the Vienna International Exhibition of 1873 he was awarded a medal for merit; that same year he was appointed the exclusive supplier of glass to the Emperor Franz Joseph I.
[7] Following the death of his father in 1916, Leo Moser took over the direction and the company expanded significantly resulting in their recognition by a Grand Prize award at the Paris International Exhibition of Decorative Art in 1925.
Several cheaper lower quality derivatives of the Fipop designs were produced by other companies and between 1927 and 1933 two American glassmakers made copies calling them Woodland and Deerwood.
Later also for Pope Pius XI, the Turkish sultan Abdul Hamid II.,[12] and the king Luís I of Portugal and his wife, Maria Pia of Savoy.
In the year 1947, Czechoslovakian President Edvard Benes gifted a monogrammed Splendid set to future Queen of England Elizabeth II.
Source:[16] Even in the late 19th century colored glass didn't play as significant a role in Moser's product range as it does today.
In Bohemian glassworks, the colorless, clear and hard potash glass was typically and traditionally used, as it was particularly suitable for processing and decoration through grinding and engraving.
Partially green, violet and sometimes orange, pink or blue layered vases and goblets created backgrounds for deeply engraved compositions of plant motifs.
After 1915, he introduced basic glass colors into regular production, they are given attractive gem names - purple Ametyst, dark green Smaragd, brownish-yellow Topas and cobalt-blue Saphir.
The result of a two-year experiment, and a series of test smelts, were special, completely new types of molten glass colored with oxides of rare earths (neodymium, praseodymium).
Moser first introduced cut glass vases with a distinct color play at the Spring Fair in Leipzig in 1929 and in the same year, their names were registered as trademarks.
Source:[15] A crisis in the sales of luxury brand glass was averted by returning the shops in Prague and Karlovy Vary to the glassworks.
Great credit in increasing the prosperity of foreign trade with glass must go to the shop's director, František Chocholatý, who, thanks to his diplomatic skills, acquired many business and social contacts, which the glassworks used for many years.
Although the brand was patented in the 1960, the tradition of the Club, which accepted important personalities of the cultural, political and sports world, goes back to 1957 when the set was designed.
Members of the Giant Snifters Clubs are for example: Whoopi Goldberg, former Japanese Princess Sayako, Robert Redford, Louis Armstrong and his wife Lucille Armstrong, former Spanish King Juan Carlos I and his wife Queen Sophia, former United States Secretary of State Madeleine Albright and former Czech president Václav Havel, and many more.