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Glass Discussion & Research. NO IDENTIFICATION REQUESTS here please. => Scandinavian Glass => Topic started by: Doris on October 01, 2005, 09:17:27 PM
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Picked this up today at my local RSPCA quarterley car boot, amongst other interesting items, but this one made me laugh because to me it looks like a face.
A sturdy piece of glass no doubt about that weighs a ton(well almost) but wondered what fellow glassies thought about it.
http://tinypic.com/e6yjv7.jpg
Thanks Doris
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Picked this up today at my local RSPCA quarterley car boot, amongst other interesting items, but this one made me laugh because to me it looks like a face.
A sturdy piece of glass no doubt about that weighs a ton(well almost) but wondered what fellow glassies thought about it.
http://tinypic.com/e6yjv7.jpg!
It looks Scandinavian - possibly Finnish. I have seen something similar. Will try to locate and get back, but I'm sure in the meantime someone more knowledgeable will know and will respond. :P
Regards - Anne E.B. :wink:
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REf original item http://tinypic.com/e6yjv7.jpg
It's by Swedish company Skrufs - design by Lars Hellsten
I don't know the pattern name but it was put to good use on bottles and vases and bowls as well as ashtrays and classed as 'Pop Baroque'
See Miller's slim collector's guides - 'Glass of 50s & 60s' by N Benson pp50
Adam D555 :twisted: :twisted:
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Some good glass ID websites
http://www.gods.nu/glass.htm
http://www.ddoty.com/aboutcarnival.html
http://www.freeformsusa.com/links.htm
http://www.blenkocollectors.com/blenkodesigners.htm
http://sherril2.user.msu.edu/blenko/default.htm
http://www.barovier.com/s_halloffame/hall_archive.asp
http://www.more-paperweights.co.uk
http://www.whitefriarsorg.org/index2.htm
http://www.potteryglass.com/index.htm
http://mahasamatman.com/Paperweights/?Colin=on
http://www.loetz.com
http://www.glass.co.nz/index.htm
http://www.great-glass.co.uk/index.htm
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REf original item http://tinypic.com/e6yjv7.jpg
It's by Swedish company Skrufs - design by Lars Hellsten
I don't know the pattern name but it was put to good use on bottles and vases and bowls as well as ashtrays and classed as 'Pop Baroque'
See Miller's slim collector's guides - 'Glass of 50s & 60s' by N Benson pp50
Adam D555 :twisted: :twisted:
Adam
Although it was my first thought also that this little ashtray was by Skrufs, isn't it a bit rash to say that it definitely is without finding a reference to an identical item?
:?:
No offence intended, just trying to give Doris factual information. :)
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REf original item http://tinypic.com/e6yjv7.jpg
Although it was my first thought also that this little ashtray was by Skrufs, isn't it a bit rash to say that it definitely is without finding a reference to an identical item?
:?:
No offence intended, just trying to give Doris factual information. :)
Blimey. I've been to bed...for 30 mins, then got worried I'd been rude on the GMB....if I was, I didn't mean to be, sometimes words get in the way. :(
Arghhhh! I really MUST go to bed now! :o
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Anne
Same jug Thank you
Tiger Chips
Super Sleuth
David
Thanks for input
Max
I'm with you!
Thank you all looking at it again reminds me of a New Zealand Maori Rugby Player. It goes on to the display cabinet.
Regards
Doris
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David 555
Have just trawled some of the sites you mentioned and came across the exact design on a bottle by Scrufs so looks like you are flavour of the mo th! Well done and thank you!
Doris
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month
Sorry
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LOL Max
The Miller's book I quoted gives the exact design in every way - there can be no doubt or I would not have been so positive
Anyway Max you can't be rude to me no matter what you say or do, you are such a nice person how anyone could take offence ……..
And you like cats?
I have three including a Torty, a British Black & a Burmese
They keep me sane
Doris how did you know .. I am a Moth, a great big Moth!!
LOL
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I am a Moth, a great big Moth!!
Adam, that explains why you're often on the board in the dead of night! :wink:
(Like me!) :lol:
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REf original item http://tinypic.com/e6yjv7.jpg
It's by Swedish company Skrufs - design by Lars Hellsten
I don't know the pattern name but it was put to good use on bottles and vases and bowls as well as ashtrays and classed as 'Pop Baroque'
See Miller's slim collector's guides - 'Glass of 50s & 60s' by N Benson pp50
Adam D555 :twisted: :twisted:
Now i feel stupid. :oops:
I Knew I had seen that ashtray design before someware so I looked in the "Glass of 50s & 60s' by N Benson". I found that Scrufs vase and thought it looked a bit like it but i didn't compare them together so now I feel really stupid. :oops:
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No need to feel stupid at all Tigerchips. Seeing a pattern on one shape and not associating it with the same pattern on a different shape item is something most of us have done at some time I'm sure. Just look back through the board and you'll find examples. ;)
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Thanks, i feel much better now. :)
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Anne is right
Companies just copied or took elements so a design from one object does not make it applicable to another without further research
It's just I have seen that Hellsten range in bowls and your ashtray so I had that to back up the picture in the book – I also know the designers work a bit
In fact Hellsten was a bit obsessed with that shape, when he moved on to Orrefors he continued to play around with it see thread on a large dish I have (there is a guy there who knows the designer’s work really well) http://www.glassmessages.com/index.php/topic,2324.0.html
Adam D555 :twisted: :twisted:
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there is a guy there who knows the designer’s work really well)
W L (Bill) Geary certainly knows much about this. :) Bill is the author of Scandinavian Glass: Creative Energies. Incidentally, as a designer yourself, you may be interested to know that Bill is currently designing some glassware for Skruv Glasbruk - see thread here: http://www.glassmessages.com/index.php/topic,1902.0.html. 8)