Topic: please help me identify these 2 paperweights! Thanks!

[msandml]

I bought a lot with many paperweights, and have figured out who the artist is on most of them, but these two have me stumped.  Any help?

Thanks in advance!
Marcie

[Wuff]

Strömbergshyttan is a Swedish glass studio. Edvard Strömberg took over the Eda glassworks in Värmland in 1927. In 1933 he moved with his wife Gerda to the old Lindefors glassworks in Småland and renamed it Strömbergshyttan (= your signature). It is still shown in a map of Swedish glass studios of about 2000 - have no later info on them.

[Wuff]

Just found another note:
http://www.deconet.com/decopedia/maker/414/Str%C3%B6mbergshyttan
Seems the Strömbergshyttan of today is a new studio founded in 1987 - just "recycling"(?) the name.

There was a thread on the studio on GMB years ago (and all images lost by now), but gives some further references:
http://www.glassmessages.com/index.php/topic,871.0.html

[msandml]

Thank you so much!

Anyone have any ideas on the second paperweight?

Best regards,
Marcie

[tropdevin]

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The signatures look much the same on both weights to me, as does the design.

Alan

[msandml]

Wow!

At first the signatures looked so different to me, but now that you say that I can see the similarities.

Thanks,
Marcie

[jamalpa36]

If the second signature had been written on paper I would have said it was a forgery and a very bad one at that.

Roy :no: :no:

[johnphilip]

Could the second one be Ellis Berg for Kosta , last bit a B and 3 numbers is typical Berg . jp :huh:

[Sach]

The second signature looks like it was scratched with a diamond stylus.  The first looks like it was signed with a diamond tipped Dremel tool.  I'm betting the second weight is older than the first.  The diamond stylus is quite difficult to use well and most glassworkers prefer the power tool.

[Wuff]

I didn't mention it in my previous contribution, but was/am pretty sure the second signature reads Strömberg as well, although it looks differently - and IS different, e.g. Strömberg vs. Strömbergshyttan. If you look at the history, Edvard Strömberg was producing glass before he founded Strömbergshyttan - and now there seems to be a new Strömbergshyttan (relation unknown). The "Strömberg" signature could be Edvard, either before he founded Strömbergshyttan, or even afterwards - whilst the first signature might be from the "new Strömbergshyttan". Now - if two different people signed a paperweight at different times and with different tools, the signatures will look different ;-). The numbering system (letter plus three numbers) is identical. The only possibly surprising fact is that the designs look so similar.