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Oy Kumela biomorphic boat bowl by Jacobino.

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Nordic-NZ:
Thanks for the comments on Jacobino, Peter, and for fixing my picture links.  Yes, Fire and Sea has greatly expanded the information and examples of glass from less well-known Glass Works, than in Smoke and Ice.  Both excellent references and worth waiting for.
With designers and glass blowers migrating between Glass Works in Sweden, Finland and elsewhere, it is difficult to ignore good Finnish glass, even when you wish to concentrate on Sweden's best glass.
We stayed in Riihimaki back in 1994, as a convenient rail junction for visiting Helsinki, Tampere and St Petersburg, but everything was closed for the Midsummer's Eve weekend, so we missed out on the Finnish Glass Museum.  You can see similarities between my Jacobino dish and his other designs shown in Fire and Sea, but little comes up on a Google search.

Tigerchips:
found this:
http://koti.mbnet.fi/jost/jacobino.htm

Nordic-NZ:
Thanks Tigerchips.  If you link to http://koti.mbnet.fi/jost/ for Jost's index pages, he has extensive but slightly disjointed biographies and history of most of the major Finnish glassworks and designers.  He seems to be the only Finn who has tried to put this information together.
Tina has some good pictures of her Finnish Glass collection at http://glassart.5u.com/index.html, but I get a security warning about "Arcade" spyware attempting to download from this site.
Also some interesting pieces at http://www.old-items.com/Index.html.
We continue to learn.

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