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Title: (Presumably) A Riihimäki Vase
Post by: Pinkspoons on November 04, 2007, 08:31:17 PM
Bought this one last week - and I'm assuming that it's by Tamara Aladin for Riihimäen, c.1976... or maybe part of the Stromboli range? - but it's not a label I've come across before, having only seen the Finncristall export labels. It's not to be found on the Designlasi site either.

Vase (http://www.zeitgeist-i.com/images/G-Sc-159/1b_lg.jpg)
Label (http://www.zeitgeist-i.com/images/G-Sc-159/2_lg.jpg)


Any help gratefully received.  ;D

Mod: Pics gone, but see further down the topic for replacements

Title: Re: (Presumably) A Riihimäki Vase
Post by: Della on November 04, 2007, 09:07:05 PM

Yes Nic  ;D See this thread: http://www.glassmessages.com/index.php/topic,15997.0.html

Very nice  :mrgreen: :mrgreen:
Title: Re: (Presumably) A Riihimäki Vase
Post by: Pinkspoons on November 04, 2007, 09:08:45 PM
Hurray - thanks, Della.

Just need to work out the range/designer now.  ;D

It's probably just me, but I do actually really like this very cinammony brown.
Title: Re: (Presumably) A Riihimäki Vase
Post by: Della on November 04, 2007, 09:12:18 PM

It looks like a 1436 Stromboli vase (as you said), designed in 1962, which came in 5 different sizes, but I have only ever seen two, which were both smaller.
Title: Re: (Presumably) A Riihimäki Vase
Post by: Della on November 04, 2007, 09:16:04 PM

sorry, Nic, I have seen 3 sizes.  :-[
Title: Re: (Presumably) A Riihimäki Vase
Post by: Pinkspoons on November 04, 2007, 09:20:48 PM
That was my thinking after taking a proper look at it - with my Aladin 'Export' pieces the bases aren't generally so thick and the sides flare more gently, but with this one they're subtly straight and angular.

So thanks for that.  :)
Title: Re: (Presumably) A Riihimäki Vase
Post by: Anne on October 22, 2009, 11:26:48 PM
Nic, do you still have the pics for this please as the originals seem to have vanished.
Title: Re: (Presumably) A Riihimäki Vase
Post by: Pinkspoons on October 23, 2009, 12:23:39 AM
Yup. The originals must have been accidentally deleted during a recent server move.

I vaguely recall that the vase turned out not to be Stromboli series... but it's far too late in the evening for me to remember what it actually is.  :sleep: