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Title: Ronneby Konstglas or not, can anybody help with ID please?
Post by: rosieposie on July 27, 2011, 05:07:58 PM

Please can you help here?  :)

I like the look of this glass cat, but I am concerned that it might not be as described.

http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=270789247420

Does RK mean Ronneby Konstglas, or might it be Royal Krona?

Is M. Fust a known designer / maker?

Any light you can throw on this might help me decide on purchasing or not.

Title: Re: Ronneby Konstglas or not, can anybody help with ID please?
Post by: Wayne on July 27, 2011, 05:32:21 PM

Hi Rosie.  I'd say Royal Krona, I have an owl by Mats Jonasson signed in the same way, which I assume is from the period Mats Jonasson Glass was owned by Royal Krona (mid 70's):

(http://www.20thcenturyglass.com/images/items/paperweights/matsjonasson_glasspaperweights/thumbs/matsjonasson_glasspaperweight97.jpg) (http://www.20thcenturyglass.com/images/items/paperweights/matsjonasson_glasspaperweights/matsjonasson_glasspaperweight97.jpg) (http://www.20thcenturyglass.com/images/items/paperweights/matsjonasson_glasspaperweights/thumbs/matsjonasson_glasspaperweight98.jpg) (http://www.20thcenturyglass.com/images/items/paperweights/matsjonasson_glasspaperweights/matsjonasson_glasspaperweight98.jpg)

I've no idea who "M. Fust" is.

Title: Re: Ronneby Konstglas or not, can anybody help with ID please?
Post by: Anne on July 27, 2011, 05:33:02 PM

It seems Fust did work for Royal Krona, so I'd be thinking them rather than Ronneby for the cat.

There's a couple of other listings with the R.K. mark on the base here:
http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=400230134376 (http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=400230134376) <--- owl
http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=120745073077 (http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=120745073077) <--- paperweight which had R.K. and a Royal Krona label but images are gone (I hope this cached link works!) IMAGE LINK (http://www.google.co.uk/imgres?q=%22royal+krona%22&hl=en&client=firefox-a&hs=b6n&sa=X&rls=org.mozilla:en-GB:official&biw=853&bih=529&tbm=isch&tbnid=AVxOnuOFO1-WGM:&imgrefurl=http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/ROYAL-KRONA-CRYSTAL-FOLKE-WALWING-APPLE-P-WEIGHT-LABEL-/120745073077&docid=2lHlxeGb-Ngn1M&w=800&h=600&ei=cUkwTqidKMP1sgbvg_jyDw&zoom=1)

A search of Google for "royal krona" +fust brings various useful results.  8)

Title: Re: Ronneby Konstglas or not, can anybody help with ID please?
Post by: rosieposie on July 27, 2011, 09:22:58 PM

Thanks so much Wayne  :kissy: and Anne  :kissy: .....I think you are both right....Royal Krona and M. Fust.
You have helped me decide.....he is a lovely cat, so I had better find out what the postage will be. :wsh:

Title: Re: Ronneby Konstglas or not, can anybody help with ID please?
Post by: inca on July 27, 2011, 11:14:24 PM

Hi Rosie,

It is marked RK for Royal Krona so it has nothing to do with Ronneby.

I found some info here on Royal Krona:
http://www.glassmessages.com/index.php/topic,9234.0.html
the Royal Krona group was a fusion of the following: Gullaskruf, Åseda, Skruf, Björkshult and Målerås.

Title: Re: Ronneby Konstglas or not, can anybody help with ID please?
Post by: ahremck on July 28, 2011, 07:47:27 AM

I would not rule out Ronneby.  I ahve this crystal horse marked underneath as

RK
Ronneby
Sweden
Mi 20

And it has a studio Line label.(see photos)

I would suggest an email to Marcolin/Ronneby

Ross

Title: Re: Ronneby Konstglas or not, can anybody help with ID please?
Post by: inca on July 28, 2011, 08:12:54 AM

Hi Ross,

The horse is model M-20 and not Mi 20, and they sign FM Ronneby.....

Could you please add a picture of the signature, thank you!

Title: Re: Ronneby Konstglas or not, can anybody help with ID please?
Post by: rosieposie on July 28, 2011, 08:36:22 AM

Lovely horse Ross,  but I think Inca is correct. ( to me, she is Marcolin / Ronneby!!)
Fascinating reading in that link Inca, and thank you all once again....just waiting for postage details now.....it might be too much though! :cry:

Title: Re: Ronneby Konstglas or not, can anybody help with ID please?
Post by: ahremck on July 30, 2011, 09:03:40 AM

Been too busy with overseas visitors and a wife about to start her third round of chemotherapy for Ovarian cancer to get photos done.  Did check the signatures - you are absolutely right Inca - though I have to say without knowing what I was looking at my original reading still seemed OK - I wish they all printed clearly.  :spls:

Ross

Title: Re: Ronneby Konstglas or not, can anybody help with ID please?
Post by: rosieposie on July 30, 2011, 09:17:20 AM

 :hug: for your wife Ross, I had no idea she was ill......will be thinking of you both over the next few weeks.  :kissy:

Title: Re: Ronneby Konstglas or not, can anybody help with ID please?
Post by: Cathy B on July 31, 2011, 07:17:41 AM

 :hug: Sorry to hear about your wife! Really hope that the chemo works as it should. All the best x

(And by the way, I agree with you that all those who sign glass ought to work on their penmanship! Although, it would take away the challenge :D )

Title: Re: Ronneby Konstglas or not, can anybody help with ID please?
Post by: ahremck on July 31, 2011, 11:55:16 AM

They should all be taught to print in capitals.  See photos for L. Dostal versus Leisa Wharington(Who was only identifiable by the unusual spelling of Leisa).

Similarly the Kosta Boda Warff dish versus the Orrefors paperweight signature (that I originally thought was OSPALETTO) .

Ross

Title: Re: Ronneby Konstglas or not, can anybody help with ID please?
Post by: inca on July 31, 2011, 12:07:12 PM

Quote from: ahremck on July 31, 2011, 11:55:16 AM

Orrefors paperweight signature (that I originally thought was OSPALETTO) .

It sure looks like Ospaletto!  ;D

Regarding M. Fust.
When I first saw this inscription I read it as M FW??, and I thought of Folke Walwing and Målerås.