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Title: HOLMEGAARD GLASS PIGGY
Post by: norman warbreck on August 20, 2008, 01:21:30 PM
i have found two of these over the last three months...can anyone tell me if its by j.bang pls.
Title: Re: HOLMEGAARD GLASS PIGGY
Post by: Frank on August 20, 2008, 03:11:23 PM
Looks the same, is tail 3-D moulded or flat. Other views would help.

The other piggy is a Hasselblad promotional one  :huh: I got one in the Zoo and def a pig  ;)
Title: Re: HOLMEGAARD GLASS PIGGY
Post by: Max on August 20, 2008, 04:50:57 PM
Looks like the same camera in Andy McConnells 20th Century Glass (ISBN 13 978 1 845330 99 6), Page 43. 

Described as: Moulded Glass Camera, Swedish 1975.  Designed by Christof Sjögson, for Lindshammer, Sweden c.1975.

Title: Re: HOLMEGAARD GLASS PIGGY
Post by: norman warbreck on August 21, 2008, 04:43:47 PM
max thanks spot on with the camera.....i did not notice the label and googled it last evening.
the piggy has a holmegaard label...and the tail is 3d...will take some more pics.
Title: Re: HOLMEGAARD GLASS PIGGY
Post by: Frank on August 22, 2008, 01:00:08 PM
The 3d tail makes it an early model.
Title: Re: HOLMEGAARD GLASS PIGGY
Post by: norman warbreck on August 22, 2008, 03:14:16 PM
some more pics of details.
Title: Re: HOLMEGAARD GLASS PIGGY
Post by: Pinkspoons on August 22, 2008, 05:18:26 PM
Two photographs showing the different tails. The first is the standard moulded tail, and the second the flattened and simplified tail used for a period circa late 1960s / early 1970s.

There's a lot of eBay nonsense about 'rare early models' because of the moulded tail, but actually the flattened tailed ones are less common, having had a much shorter production span. But neither are terribly rare, because they're mass-produced pressed glass.

(http://www.holmegaardresource.com/GMB/pig1.jpg)
(http://www.holmegaardresource.com/GMB/pig2.jpg)
Title: Re: HOLMEGAARD GLASS PIGGY
Post by: norman warbreck on August 22, 2008, 07:00:50 PM
thanks so much for that...good to know as there has been so much hueha about these!
they are fun as piggy banks go.