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Oiva Toikka??
rosieposie:
Michelle & Wuff, I was just taking pictures of my Scandi collection and discovered something quite unexpected!! :o
The signature on my bird does NOT read Riihimäki !!
I put talcum powder on it to take a better look and it says... Teskavoski
I can't believe it!
There are some, including the one on eBay at the moment, that do clearly say Riihimäki, but, mine doesn't!!
It just goes to show, that sometimes we read and see what we expect to see, not what is ACTUALLY there!
I am guilty of this... and am off to eat humble pie! :-[
Wuff:
Tesvakoski would be just a few miles North of Riihimäki.
rosieposie:
Oh Wuff, Thank you so much... I was looking for a glass artist with that name!! Double 'humble pie' for supper tonight!! :-[ :-[
And I have now seen that it is Tervakoski, with an 'r' not an 's'... :-[
Wuff:
The Bidges-Nichols Collection shows two Toikka birds with a "Napapiirin Lasi" label or even signed "O.Toikka Napapiirin" (http://bn-collection.com/v/NAPAPIIRIN/) - both made at Nuutajärvi/Iittala. Now - Napapiirin is Northern Finland, and the explanation given by Bib Bridges is that these birds were commissioned by a company there, or the city itself - which is why this name was added (in one case) to the signature.
Could it be that the Jussi birds were signed in a similar way - naming the location of the commissioning company/city, and not the location of Jussi Glas ???.
rosieposie:
That's a very interesting thought Wuff, and one well worth consideration... my only reservation is that some of the silver streaked birds are signed Riihimaki and some Tervakoski, even though they are the same design. ???
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