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Glass Discussion & Research. NO IDENTIFICATION REQUESTS here please. => Scandinavian Glass => Topic started by: twenty21 on March 15, 2009, 05:12:40 AM
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I have a cased Nils Landberg vase with his full name etched on the base plus ORREFORS E% PO 299-56.
The bold letters are very faint and I am not 100% sure whether they are correct. There is a viking ship etched on the front of the vase, about 3cm from the base (see picture). Is this etching common on this vase? Was it done at the factory or later? I would appreciate any information you may have.
:huh:
Carlo
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Wow an Expo vase! numbering is correct for 1956...
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Just so everyone knows, in my opinion, Orrefors did not etch their glass. It was copper wheel engraved.
The work was copper wheel engraved involving an artist who works intaglio.
Sorry, I hate the term etched when it comes to Orrefors. They signed the work with an engraving tool or a tool most often done by an employee of the glasswork.
Ops, they are not acid etching the signatures of Orrefors on the work.
Bill Geary
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Apologies Bill for my mistake, and thank you for the information - will you forgive me? :cry:
Ivo, can you enlighten me further about the "expo" business? What does the viking ship relate to exactly?
Thanks again...Carlo
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special quality for exhibition. If you google you get tons of them, and that should also get you a price idea...
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Apologies Bill for my mistake, and thank you for the information - will you forgive me? :cry:
Ivo, can you enlighten me further about the "expo" business? What does the viking ship relate to exactly?
Thanks again...Carlo
I believe the ship to be one of the Swedish cavedrawings. ( Målerås made a series of paperweights depicting various drawings )
Here's a link to a site which tells about the drawings
http://home.online.no/~wen-mja/ontherocks/
:)
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wow..thanks a40ty and ivo. Much appreciated... :hiclp:
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Hi:
Interesting. I was going to ask whether you were sure the designer was Landberg and not Palmquist, but the numbers on the bottom are the correct numbers for Landberg. My question stemmed from the fact that I've a small light blue sommerso vase with the exactly same ship engraved on it, also an Expo piece, marked Orrefors Expo PU 37 -55, designed by Palmquist a year earlier. Was it common for different designers to use exactly the same image? I've attached a picture of my piece. Apologies for the quality but it's a little late here in the far West.
My understanding of Expo is it was "art glass" produced outside the usual factory run. Each designer was given his own number series, which also identified the year. The pieces weren't necessarily shown at an exhibition.
David
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Sorry about the photo in the previous post. You have to take my word that there's an engraving there. Here's a slightly better picture which shows the engraving a bit more clearly, and clearly it's the same design as on Carlo's Landberg vase.
David
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Hello David
I am not sure I made it clear, but my vase has the full NILS LANDBERG signature on the base as well as ORREFORS EXPO 299-56. And yes, the viking ship is exactly the same ;-)
Carlo
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Hi all
interestingly i probably wont throw any light on this either, lol, other than to say i think the engraving are not the same date line as the vase, 1956 seems very early for that style add 10-15 years and you are in the goran warff 'primative' style of which the design reminded me. My initial thought is that the engraving is a company logo for some scandinavian concern given as a prize or award within that comapny or to one of there clients... we may never know :-\
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excuse the double post..i just reread what i wrote and of course the whole idea that 1956 is too early for a 'primitive logo is a bit ridiculous as the cave drawings are many 1000's of years earlier than that!...sometimes i need a good shake !!
i couldn't find anything other than the below as an example of what i meant there are a couple of pics in smoke and ice' p.115/116 of the warff pieces.
http://video.aol.com/category/warff