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Title: Scandinavian Candlestick?
Post by: vanmann on April 13, 2011, 12:55:02 PM

Would anybody be able to ID this piece please? 12 cms tall with smooth unmarked base. Thanks John

Title: Re: Scandinavian Candlestick?
Post by: Alfies Dad on April 13, 2011, 01:00:07 PM

Looks like Festivo, by Timo Sarpeneva

Title: Re: Scandinavian Candlestick?
Post by: vanmann on April 13, 2011, 01:06:08 PM

Thanks but I don't think that the finish is textured enough for Festivo and the discs are round whereas the Festivo pieces I have had before were more oval shaped

Title: Re: Scandinavian Candlestick?
Post by: Alfies Dad on April 13, 2011, 01:15:48 PM

I see what you mean now, that will teach me to jump in with both feet.   :spls:

Title: Re: Scandinavian Candlestick?
Post by: Max on April 13, 2011, 01:22:53 PM

Yes, it's a Festivo copy.  Not sure who made them, none I've seen are marked.

Title: Re: Scandinavian Candlestick?
Post by: ahremck on April 14, 2011, 02:27:13 AM

I saw one just yesterday that had an Ittalla label - not signed but, as you have all said, it is a copy for sure of the original.

Ross

Title: Re: Scandinavian Candlestick?
Post by: Max on April 14, 2011, 06:59:29 AM

You're saying that someone had stuck an Iittala label on one then Ross?

Title: Re: Scandinavian Candlestick?
Post by: ahremck on April 14, 2011, 09:23:03 AM

No, I am saying I saw a three ring candlestick pair like yours, and one had an Ittalla label still attached.  Neither had any sign of aa TW so I left them.

Ross

Title: Re: Scandinavian Candlestick?
Post by: dirk. on April 14, 2011, 09:42:08 AM

I think they are Luminarc - faintly remember seeing labelled ones some years ago...  :)

Title: Re: Scandinavian Candlestick?
Post by: Cathy B on April 15, 2011, 09:48:07 AM

It's dead easy to tell the copies from the originals from the shape of the knops (for want of a better description). If viewed from the top they are circular, they are the copies. The originals have knops which are eye-shaped when viewed from above. I'd take a photo of mine (which Mum has owned since the mid-70s and are signed) but I've just boxed them up and put them into the garage since we're having some renovations done.

Title: Re: Scandinavian Candlestick?
Post by: Ivo on April 15, 2011, 09:58:55 AM

Quote from: dirk. on April 14, 2011, 09:42:08 AM

I think they are Luminarc - faintly remember seeing labelled ones some years ago...  :)

perhaps. But there are several imitations doing the rounds. You often find them with a little gold foil "made in Taiwan" sticker on the bottom.

Title: Re: Scandinavian Candlestick?
Post by: chopin-liszt on April 15, 2011, 11:36:12 AM

 :spls:
Ross, they have TS on them, not TW, if they're right and initialled. They can still be right and not have initials on them.

Title: Re: Scandinavian Candlestick?
Post by: ahremck on April 15, 2011, 12:42:44 PM

Oh of course they do, Sue..(Where is a Seniors moment icon when I need one - yet again)  :-[

Ross

Title: Re: Scandinavian Candlestick?
Post by: glassobsessed on April 15, 2011, 03:04:35 PM

The quality of the glass in the Festivo copies can also be very poor, often with a green tinge.

I have a candlestick which I believe is a copy of this Pukeberg stick: https://picasaweb.google.com/Johnmj100/ScandinavianGlass#5452595676611386930
the texture is not so well defined, the central bobble does not have a ring of little bobbles circling it and the glass is quite green.

John