Topic: Kosta Vase-Need help identifying designer and age

[Beccat1974]

Hi All! I have this vase with the original, clear "Kosta, Sweden" label. It appears to be unsigned with the exception of what looks like a hand etched "A" or "LA" or "1A"....or they could just be scratches and not deliberate markings at all. It stands just about 8"H. I would love to know who the designer is and the approximate age of the piece. Any help is greatly appreciated! Thanks in advance. Rebecca

[Paul S.]

hello Rebecca  -  welcome to the GMB

Am sure these 'marks' are scratches, unfortunately  -  and looks as though you will have to wait until someone recognizes this particular shape/design.        Much glass from Scandinavia is signed/marked.

On the other hand your label is recorded in the books, and described as a 'black and gold cellophane label with a crown'.             It's unreliable to try and date pieces without specific signatures or date codes, and with a factory such as Kosta their output was truly vast and varied, so again recognizing the pattern may be the only way of dating.              Having said that, this tapering, simple shape was a common feature of Scandi glass from the mid 1950's and the 1960's, and this a likely period of manufacture for your vase, although it could well be later.

fingers crossed someone will recognize your piece.

[Pinkspoons]

I've not, myself, had any Kosta glass bearing this label that dates to before the early-mid 1970s.

But that might just be a quirk of chance.

[ahremck]

Looks like the colour of two Vicke Lindstrand Items I have.  I would expect "LHxxxx" to be marked somewhere in the concave section.  The scratch marking may be quite light.  See photos of the items attached.

Ross

[Beccat1974]

Thank you for your help! I have looked under every kind of light and I do not see a signature anywhere. Is the label a more recent one? Thanks so much!

[Lustrousstone]

I wouldn't have thought it was after 1976 because that's when Kosta was renamed Kosta Boda

[Beccat1974]

I tried to put some baby powder on the base and at certain angles, it is possible that there is the slightest ghost of a mark. Is it possible for the signature to fade almost completely?

[Paul S.]

I doubt that they fade as such, but with extreme wear they might become illegible.          Signatures and date codes etc., would show as very different types of marking  -  not the randon fine scratches seen on this one.
You're probably just unlucky in having a piece that is unsigned.

[Donnarob]

//www.freeformsusa.com/glass/lind1.htm

The above is a good image of some of Vicke Linstrand.  I have one and there is a definite light grey marking LH and then the number which dates it. 

Is your vase very heavy?

Donnarob