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Purple Jug & Glasses Set w/ Triangular Label: Riihimäki?

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Pinkspoons:
Another suggestion might be Podebrady Glassworks? They had a label the right shape, but I don't know if they ever ventured into this style of tableware?

robbo:
Sorry, I didn't mean to give the impression that Riihimäki / Riihimäen were different companies. To be totally accurate I should probably have referred to the company as Riihimäen Lasi in my previous posts, since Riihimäki is the place in Finland where they were based, and from where their name was taken. Kumela were based there too.  :D  :D  :D

I suppose the mass of unidentified glass is why we're here!  8)  8)

Pinkspoons:
Oh, not your fault - I've thought the two names represented different companies for a while now.  :oops:

Glen:
The town where the Riihimäki glass works was located (and is now the Finnish Glass Museum) is called Riihimäki. It is about an hour's drive up the motorway north of Helsinki.

I don't speak Finnish (well, I can say thank you and a few essential glass-hunting words too  :lol: ) but I think that the word Riihimäen means "of Riihimaki" or "from Riihimaki".

I have seen the glass works referred to as

Riihimäki
Oy Riihimäki
Riihimäen
Riihimäen Lasi Oy
Riihimäen Lasi O.y.

I believe that Oy means "limited company" or "Inc".

I personally always refer to the company as Riihimäki. That is the actual word they used to mark some of their glass (I have examples of it moulded into Carnival Glass).

You can see a little more about Riihimaki here.

http://www.geocities.com/carni_glass_uk_2000/RemarkableRiihimaki.html

Ivo:
Lasi come home

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