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Author Topic: Kosta Boda Glass Fish  (Read 3302 times)

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Offline stentipede

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Kosta Boda Glass Fish
« on: April 13, 2013, 04:03:44 PM »
Does anyone know how many different ones there are out there? Is there a book about the Kosta Boda figures?
Many thanks for your advice :)

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Re: Kosta Boda Glass Fish
« Reply #1 on: April 13, 2013, 05:39:31 PM »
Welcome to the board.

There is no book that I know of that would be useful nor do I remember seeing any fish figures from Kosta Boda. Lindstrand designed a least one for Kosta though (before they merged with Boda).

John

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Re: Kosta Boda Glass Fish
« Reply #2 on: April 13, 2013, 09:15:37 PM »
My father collected 13 and a seal. They are part of the World Wildlife series, and I am wondering if there are any more to complete the set or if I've got all the fish. I have seen an otter and an eagle recently, but for American prices I can't pay...

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Re: Kosta Boda Glass Fish
« Reply #3 on: April 14, 2013, 09:16:39 AM »
Kjell Engman has done a Fish series 'In still water' & Ken Done designed some in the 80's you need deep pockets to collect these as they are limited editions.

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Re: Kosta Boda Glass Fish
« Reply #4 on: April 14, 2013, 10:32:03 AM »
Thank you both! Yes, on the bottom it says limited to 8,000. All seem to have been designed by Paul Hoff, and some have dates of the early 1980's on the bottom. The majority seem to have been made before the merger with Boda.
I had made the assumption that 8,000 is such a large number, to make the limited edition part of it less interesting. Does anyone know then how much they are worth? (Just in case I need to up my contents insurence, she says with more hope than expectation)
And still the question remains: How many different ones were made?

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Re: Kosta Boda Glass Fish
« Reply #5 on: April 14, 2013, 09:33:39 PM »
I didn't know there were that many - I only have notes on 3, all made for Svenskt Glass at different studios:
A green fish - made at Kosta: 2 sold for sfr 40 and € 40 respectively.
A blue fish - made at Reijmyre: didn't note the price.
A group of 5 fish, light blue - sold for skr 399.
There are lots of other animals made for WWF, mostly limited to 8000, including a whale.
Wolf Seelentag, St.Gallen
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