'Boho' is a rather loose category. I have touched upon the
complex history of central Europe in talks I have given at the
PCA and at Wheaton. Here are a few key points. At the start of
paperweight times (ie 1830 onwards) Bohemia was a part of the
Austro-Hungarian empire - as was Venice, and Venetian glass was
sometimes called 'Bohemian'. After the First World War,
Czechoslovakia was created from Bohemia and all or part of other
countries including Moravia, Hungary and Silesia. So anything
made in what had been the Austrian part of Silesia might be
called Czechoslovakian, and some people consider such things -
wrongly in my view - to be the same as Bohemian. I think Bohemia
was just part of Czechoslovakia. After the break up of
Czechoslovakia, Bohemia lies within the Czech Republic. Silesia
is an area mainly within Poland, with smaller parts in the Czech
Republic and in Germany. Thuringia is a state within Germany,
including the well known glass making town of Lauscha, and
paperweights from that region are not