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Glass Discussion & Research. NO IDENTIFICATION REQUESTS here please. => Bohemia, Czechoslovakia, Czech Republic, Austria => Topic started by: Anik R on January 27, 2012, 12:32:44 PM
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I just wanted to show off my happiest addition to my Czech glass collection... two perfectly weird birdies from Beranek glassworks (Czech Republic).
The blue one is 9cm tall and 12cm long. The orange and green is 7cm tall and 22cm long.
I'm extremely pleased with them though I know they are not everyone's 'thing'. ;D
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These I do like Anik - they have so much character and quirkiness.... I bet they cheer you up every time you see them!
and they would go so well with my collection of Beranek "Tropical flowers".
I bought the flowers in TKMaxx, many years ago. I just fell in love with them!
They're massive and very awkward and unwieldy. I had to make three trips by bus between the shop and home to get them all back.
Michael was not happy. I stuck to my guns. :bat:
Then I was delighted to see that Dan Klein shared my taste, when I went to "A passion for glass" - his collection on exhibition in Edinburgh museum.... where he had a great big pink Beranek tropical flower, exactly the same as the last one Michael moaned about me dragging home.
I was justified. So there. nah, nah ne nah nah Michael!
I really like contemporary Beranek.
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Thank you, Sue! These two silly birdies really do bring a smile to my face. They are fabulous in every way. Maybe one day I'll be able to afford a whole jolly flock.
:hi:
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I believe these are serious collectables of the future.
But loads and loads of fun to have now!
You can put them in different positions to imply different sorts of communication between them - a whole flock sounds like a good idea to me!
:sun:
(I'll have to try to get pics of my "flowers" for you.)
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Please do. :)
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ooooh, I like them! :mrgreen:
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Thank you ;D
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I would be very happy to have them sitting on my shelf :chky: a really sunny cheerful look . fabulous . :thup: jp a bird lover for life .
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They are lovely Anik....I really think they are fun, and I have just had a look at their website and they have some wonderful sheep and rams......I will certainly have to look into those.......brilliant, a whole new make to collect!! :chky:
Rosie. :)
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Whatever you do, please, please, please do stay away from this giraffe/bird with the puffy eyes. He's mine, or at least I hope he'll be if no one else bids: Anik's next Beranek (http://www.ebay.pl/itm/BOHEMIAN-CZECH-GIRAFEE-BERANEK-8-TALL-PAPER-WEIGHT-ID-bcport1-/200705619763?pt=LH_DefaultDomain_0&hash=item2ebafcb733#ht_927wt_932)
(http://www.thesmilies.com/smilies/sad/begging.gif) (http://www.thesmilies.com)
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Ok, I've been very, very brave! I'm not the world's best flower arranger - (they won't stay where I put them) -
but I have struggled. The flowers are up to 2' 9" tall, very unwieldy and delicate and decidedly top heavy!
The vase is a lovely enormous Romblast piece, although I normally keep these in a large German fat lava floor vase - I can put stones in the bottom to weigh it down. The vase sits in a corner, to provide security.
But I've got them all out and balanced them in a glass vase for you. Now I'm scared to undo them all and put them back!
(Excuse the lurid kitchen paint, Anik. You'll be pleased to hear it's only on two walls though - the other walls are deep blood red. >:D )
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Thank you for taking the time to arrange and photograph your Beranek flowers, Sue! I especially like the large open pink one, and the closed orange one with the blue top. They're perfectly happy, aren't they?
Within the next week (or two), I'll be getting three more birdy-things for my dream flock. I still think these fun, modern Beranek items are great, if only for the really good feelings they stir. :)
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They stir feelings, Anik - and that's what good art does. I'm completely with you on these fabby things.
The big closed orange one (it reminds me of a poppy head) actually has a haematite like metallic finish, the big pink flower has an orangey-yellow spiral on it.... and my favourite is the blue thistle shaped flower with the yellow spiral on it.
Here are Dan Klein's flowers, from the Edinburgh museum.
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I love the birds and the flowers - superb art. Anik the long green bird is particularly gorgeous.
~Sue you've given me a brilliant idea - I have some china tulips and giant china leaves - brightly coloured tall things, from Amsterdam and bought by OH years ago for me. I've never known how to display them, they wobble around in a vases - but a giant Scheurich brightly coloured floor vase will be perfect :) I shall have a hunt round tonight for the perfect pot - OH will be pleased. They've been hiding in the spare room for years.
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Pebbles in the bottom, topped off with a good clump of bubble-wrap to protect their bases and help you "arrange" them. :thup:
I have to confess, I really do like my flowers in this Romblast vase. I especially like that it makes such a fabulous display of great contemporary glass art, and that I got it all from TKMaxx for under £50......
But I can't think of anywhere safe to put it. :cry:
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Anik, we must know, please....did you get the Giraffe? he looked such fun......I do hope you did. :X:
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Three more Beranek birds. I'm happy.
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WOW Fabulous . :mrgreen:
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Very nice birds, Anik. I'd be happy have them in my aviary.
David
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I'm so pleased you got them Anik.... you can't help but smile looking at those!
My camera battery was flat but it will be charged in the morning then I'll show a few of my new pieces.
Are you going to go for any other Baranek pieces?
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Thank you, everyone.
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I love these crazed looking animals!!!!
I have a cat, fish and a bird(like the orange and green one).
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My husband has just had a fit, but I'm dazzled by my newest Exnar animals. ;D
2 large butt-faced cats, one bird with cataracts and 2 bulgy-eyed fish. Tee hee!
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Anik,
They do make a statement, don't they? The fish look almost slavishly realistic next to the cat. I can see the attraction in them, even although I'm not quite dripping with jealousy. Just tell your husband, "Whatever makes me happy." And they're easy to clean up after.
David
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Oh, but you are dripping with jealousy, David. You just don't realise it.
They are FANTASTICALLY FABULOUS...
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They are FIENDISHLY, FANTASTICALLY FABULOUS.
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Adding to my FIENDISHLY, FANTASTICALLY FABULOUS Exnar collection...
a glorious snail, 18cm long, 10cm tall and weighing 778g. ;D
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:'(
He is far more glorious than my Cenedese one, and masses bigger!
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Anik every one you buy should come with a bottle of Wodka for the old fella .
keeps em happy,,,, works with me . ;D ;) cheers jp
Any Garlic paste with the snail .... ouch . :-[
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Thank you Sue and JP.
Though my snail isn't in the Beranek catalogue, some of my birds, fish and cats are... Beranek Catalogue (https://picasaweb.google.com/Jindra8526/BeranekGlassworks?authkey=Gv1sRgCOvIkvmg7-zidA#5448897558068857666) There are also lovely whimsical flowers a couple of pages over.
There are so many Exnar 'sculptures' to collect. Unfortunately, I've got a very hard time coming across them -- they seem so few and far between.
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;)
But that's the joy of collecting, Anik - the excitement of finding each one.
It would be very dull indeed if you could just walk into a shop and buy them all at once.
(I need more weird flowers... :) )
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Oh, I know, Sue, but they very, very rarely show up anywhere. In my two years of obsessively observing glass on Aukro (a Czech on-line auction site) I have only come across one cat, and was horrendously outbid. All the ones I've got have come from one seller in the States (via eBay), but it seems his stock of Exnar has dwindled away. Pout, pout... :(
It's a shame I wasn't a collector a few years back, and that I didn't know Beranek glass could be purchased at TK Maxx... One phone call to my Mom, and she'd be at Winners (TK Maxx in Canada) buying the stock for me. Sigh.
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It was only for a fairly short period soon after they opened that really good stuff could be found - it's been very thin on the ground for a long time, and the only reason for going there now is to check for stuff which might appear later in antiquey and collectable places being passed off as older.
I got both my Tarnoweic "waste-paper bins" there too.
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Hi Anik,
designer is Jan Exnar not Beranek :-)
jindrich
www.cs-sklo.cz
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Oh yes, I know Exnar is the designer of the wonderful animals... I think my heading is misleading as I meant Beranek glassworks. I'll ask a moderator to tweek it for me so that it reads "Beranek glassworks birds" or better "Exnar birds".
Thank you for taking a look, Jindrich. You've been very much missed on the GMB.
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The last item to join my collection, at least for a little while... a rather ugly, but still perfectly charming, frog prince.
He's about 9,5cm tall, 10cm wide and weighs 557g. I suppose Exnar designed him, though he isn't in the catalogue.
:)
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You'll have to find him his princess!
He's very cute, I'd happily kiss him :-* .... but could not be responsible for any consequences. ;)
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Lol... the first thing I did when I unpacked him was give him a big 'ol kiss in hopes that I'd see a change in fortune. No such luck. My son decided he'd have a go because I'm doing it wrongly -- apparently my eyes should be closed and not open.
When nothing happened, he decided it's obviously broken and that we should send it back. ::)
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I've now got a total of 17 Exnar 'things'... It's gone from a happy little cluster, to a collection, to an obsession. :-[ Here are the latest 5.
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:o :-* :o
I'm in love with your anteater!
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Isn't it great? It's my very favourite of the whole lot!
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Anik stop it or you will have another competitor , i love them they look so happy they make you smile . cheers dobre john .
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You're right, JP, I do have to stop. It's become a funny farm. ;D
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No Anik i meant stop showing us not stop buying them , you are getting us all hooked on them . john jp