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Purple Jug & Glasses Set w/ Triangular Label: Riihimäki?
robbo:
Pinkspoons - here's the Riihimäki label.
Pinkspoons:
Ah, that could be a possibility! There are no paper traces on the jugs, and the glue residue is the type which could suggest a plastic label.
I've just never heard of Riihimäki tableware, though. Not that I'm an expert - not by a long shot! :) I do recall Riihimaen doing some, though, so it's quite likely that Riihimäki did also.
Thanks for the input, though - I'm sure someone will come along to aye or naysay it soon.
robbo:
Riihimäki did produce water sets / decanter sets. At one stage they were, I believe, the largest glass producer in Finland. The best known is probably Nanny Still's Harlekiini, which included glasses, jugs, decanters etc. there is another waterset and other glasses / decanters illustrated in Modernes Glas aus Finnland (catalogue from a travelling exhibition in Germany, 1989-90).
Their tableware seems to be much less well known than that produced by Iittala and Nuutajärvi.
Interesting to see if there are any other suggestions - so much good quality tableware seems to end up, unfortunately, as unidentified!! :? :?
pamela:
as far as I know Riihimaen and Riihimäki is ONE glasswork - just different Finnish spelling :)
Pinkspoons:
Ah, I didn't know they were the same company! How odd to have two names.
It would explain why I've seen the Harlekiini set listed as by Riihimaen.
I agree about the huge quantities of unidentified tableware. I think a lot of this style just gets lumped in as generic Polish glassware when no one can put a manufacturer to them, though.
Krosno, it's the dumping ground of the Scandi glass world.
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