Topic: Kosta Vase identify designer

[msiscoe]

Hello, I bought this vase on eBay, which is marked Kosta 20231 under the base. Can anyone identify the designer?

Many thanks.

http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&_trksid=p4340.l2557&rt=nc&nma=true&item=250791183077&si=cbYNn9s7nCJ%252BdNgI8iFeSr94c60%253D&viewitem=&sspagename=STRK%3AMEWNX%3AIT

[kisslikeether]

Hey
Can you post pictures of the base too?

[ahremck]

Its number is considerably earlier than those current in the 1986 edition of the Kosta Boda Book of Glass.  A very lovely piece, congratulations.

Ross

[msiscoe]

Hello, thank you for the information. I thought it looked like Lindstrand, but, no initials in the signature. Here's a couple of photos:

[kisslikeether]

Hi
Thanks for posting more pics.
According to the Kosta Boda numbering system the 2nd & 3rd digits of a 5 digit code indicate year of design = 2002 which is odd as by then they had switched to a 7 digit numbering system (4th & 5th digit = year of design). Could the first 2 digits be separate from the second 3 or even be initials? It''s hard to tell from you photo.

[msiscoe]

Hello, here's a better picture of the signature. I suppose the first symbols could be initials. Hard to tell:

[cjf]

This is indeed a model designed by Vicke Lindstrand. It is called "On flight", and the original model number was LG 231. It first appears in the 1959 catalog.

[msiscoe]

Hello, thank you all for your information. This is the only one of these I have seen. I can't believe someone sat and spent so much time engraving this piece, and that they were mass produced.

[Daniel S]

The signature is imo fake.

[Anne]

Daniel, can you explain why you feel this please?