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Glass Discussion & Research. NO IDENTIFICATION REQUESTS here please. => Scandinavian Glass => Topic started by: kenzierose789 on March 06, 2009, 12:05:36 AM
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Hello, can anyone please let me know whether this is bird is by Oiva Toikka because it hasn't got any marks underneath and I thought all his pieces had identification. Thank you!
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Hi Welcome to the board. Can we see a picture of the base please.
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Thank you very much for your replies. I'll take a picture of the base and post it as soon as I can. Jill
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I can't see anything in Designlasin that's anything like this bird, particularly the beak. However, I'm not sure Designlasin covers all Toikka birds. It looks more like a FM Ronneby bird to me, although I haven't seen anything in this colour scheme. There are a coupe of people on the board who are Marcolin experts, so I'd be interested to hear what they say.
David
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Very nice but it doesn't look like FM Ronneby to me.
I've never seen that type of beak/head on a Ronneby bird.
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It's not like a Reijmyre beak either. I've seen Nason (Murano) birds with this look of beak, but they have a little more detail, i.e. eyes and more work done on the tail and wings. I suppose there's lots of companies who made birds like this.
Sorry not to be more helpful.
David
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Hi,
I would definitely say Toikka, the shape and beak are very similar to the Rosy Finch, as regards to the bird not being signed, I must admit that I do have a couple of early seconds, and neither are signed, so perhaps the signing of seconds is a more recent thing
Cheers
Karoop
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Hello
You might want to check out the site www.glassbirds.com
They sell Oiva Toikka birds and other birds from Finnish glass artists.
Bill Geary
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Thank you for the info about seconds not being signed, very useful. Also the Iittala birds website was very interesting. I have been told by someone else that this bird could be a Dipper, one of Toikka's earlier designs.
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Hi:
Noticed this on eBay and thought I saw a family resemblance. 120396838588
David
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Could be Bianco Blu a Finnish studio in Fiskars.
http://www.biancoblu.fi/en/lasinpuhallus.php?k=10475