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Title: I'm so thrilled with this! Head & shoulders advertising paperweight!!
Post by: wolkenreb on April 03, 2012, 12:49:38 PM

I think I'm in love!  Really!  I received this in the post today having found it on Ebid (first time I've bought anything from there).  And it's even better than I expected.

It is a lovely (mouthwash?) blue glass bust of a man, 1950s/60s style, on a clear glass base.  The base has 'rematitan' etched on the front and 'DENTAURUM' on the back.  A seam runs all the way round from one side of the base to the other.

It's very heavy although it appears to be hollow inside.

I've been on to the Dentaurum website which states 'The Dentaurum Group develops, manufactures and sells products for dentists and dental technicians worldwide.'  Rematitan is one of their products.  It is a family company based in Germany (actually, their website is very interesting).  So I am assuming these went out to their clients, maybe in their thousands?

Dimensions: 11cm(H) x 10cm(W)

I don't suppose anyone would know anything about who might have made this?  I think I'll email the company - they seem like a nice bunch!

Thanks for looking!
 ;D ;D ;D

Title: Re: I'm so thrilled with this! Head & shoulders advertising paperweight!!
Post by: wolkenreb on April 03, 2012, 12:50:39 PM

Here's a view through the base.

Title: Re: I'm so thrilled with this! Head & shoulders advertising paperweight!!
Post by: Wuff on April 03, 2012, 05:58:42 PM

Sorry - can't help - but from the thread title I was expecting something more modern  :P.
http://www.headandshoulders.de/de-DE/index.jspx

Title: Re: I'm so thrilled with this! Head & shoulders advertising paperweight!!
Post by: wolkenreb on April 03, 2012, 06:09:45 PM

Ha!  Hope you weren't too disappointed!  ;)

Title: Re: I'm so thrilled with this! Head & shoulders advertising paperweight!!
Post by: wolkenreb on April 04, 2012, 06:27:54 PM

Gosh, it's like bringing your new boyfriend home who you're head-over-heels with and you family takes one look then turns away with an embarrassed shrug!  Surely he's not that bad!  Nobody just want to say Hi! to him?

Title: Re: I'm so thrilled with this! Head & shoulders advertising paperweight!!
Post by: flying free on April 04, 2012, 07:04:24 PM

He's rather beautiful.  I don't see him as 60s - As soon as I saw him I thought 'New Romantics' in an early 80's Spandau Ballet kind of way  ;D
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Title: Re: I'm so thrilled with this! Head & shoulders advertising paperweight!!
Post by: wolkenreb on April 04, 2012, 07:31:20 PM

Thank you Michelle! I see what you mean, a bit Tony Hadley-ish.  Chiselled features, square jaw, etc.  I'm really hoping that my enquiry to Dentaurum might get a response.

Apart from his good looks, I really love the colour and weight, and the overall design.

Title: Re: I'm so thrilled with this! Head & shoulders advertising paperweight!!
Post by: chopin-liszt on April 05, 2012, 10:33:04 AM

It is a beautiful thing, Nancy. :)
Wuff's succeeding in being far sharper in a second language than I am in my first, which is highly embarrassing.....

Title: Re: I'm so thrilled with this! Head & shoulders advertising paperweight!!
Post by: wolkenreb on April 05, 2012, 11:04:40 AM

Thanks Sue.  Yes, I'm kind of kicking myself for not spotting the obvious before I posted.   :P

Title: Re: I'm so thrilled with this! Head & shoulders advertising paperweight!!
Post by: chopin-liszt on April 05, 2012, 11:23:48 AM

Two Scots lassies: 0 ..... One German gentleman: 1  8)

Title: Re: I'm so thrilled with this! Head & shoulders advertising paperweight!!
Post by: SophieB on April 05, 2012, 11:35:40 AM

Sue, I thought Wolf was Swiss. Am I wrong?   ??? ;D

And while I am at it: Nancy, I really like the look of your new man...  ;)

SophieB

Title: Re: I'm so thrilled with this! Head & shoulders advertising paperweight!!
Post by: wolkenreb on April 05, 2012, 11:39:51 AM

Maybe Wuff has dandruff . . . ::)

Title: Re: I'm so thrilled with this! Head & shoulders advertising paperweight!!
Post by: Wuff on April 05, 2012, 03:42:52 PM

Not any longer - I am using Head and Shoulders ::). Where is the smiley with the little devil gone :-[?

To answer the other question - actually I'm German, but have been living in Switzerland for the last 33 years - and in the UK for 4 years before that.

Title: Re: I'm so thrilled with this! Head & shoulders advertising paperweight!!
Post by: wolkenreb on April 05, 2012, 04:39:27 PM

Sophie, I just noticed your post and I thank you!

And Wolf - what a great name!  Does it mean the same in German as in English?  Am so glad to hear you've managed to lose your dandruff problem - a wolf with dandruff doesn't bear thinking about.  ;)

Now back to my guy - I think I'll christen him L'Oreal, because he's worth it! ;D

Title: Re: I'm so thrilled with this! Head & shoulders advertising paperweight!!
Post by: Wuff on April 05, 2012, 05:08:02 PM

Quote from: wolkenreb on April 05, 2012, 04:39:27 PM

And Wolf - ... Does it mean the same in German as in English?

Yes - big bad Wolf

Title: Re: I'm so thrilled with this! Head & shoulders advertising paperweight!!
Post by: chopin-liszt on April 05, 2012, 05:09:40 PM

Big, bad, cuddly Wolf.  ;)
I've met you.  ;D

Title: Re: I'm so thrilled with this! Head & shoulders advertising paperweight!!
Post by: SophieB on April 06, 2012, 03:18:36 PM

Quote from: chopin-liszt on April 05, 2012, 05:09:40 PM

Big, bad, cuddly Wolf.  ;)

Well, I am glad we clarified this  ;D

Sophie

Title: Re: I'm so thrilled with this! Head & shoulders advertising paperweight!!
Post by: chopin-liszt on April 12, 2012, 01:06:59 PM

I did mean very friendly and approachable - not overweight!