Topic: FM Konstglas paperweight sculpture ??? ID = Polish, mass produced oil lamp

[stew2u2]

i have had this paperweight ??  for a while now and when i had some help on another piece came across this.http://www.modernistglass.com/glasspieces/view/2084/fm-konstglas-paperweight-sculpture identical design i was just wondering if the description was right FM Konstglas paperweight sculpture. i have seen some work by WILLY JOHANSSON Hadeland that use the same technique. or is this just wishfull thinking.
thanks
stew
my weight

[Ivo]

Sorry wrong tree. These oil lamps have been mass produced in Poland for 10 or 15 years now and bear no relation to art as we know it. In most of Europe you can pick one of these up on any flea market for 1 Dinar or Zloty or Crown.

[stew2u2]

thanks ivo i think  :cry: . i did not pay much for it. was the other one the same he seems to have got a very good price for it. it all adds to my knowladge
thanks again ivo

[dirk.]

We all learned it this way...  :ghug:  :hi:

[stew2u2]

true dirk but this site makes it tonnes better i have learned loads in the last year i have been on here. mainly buy cheap and keep your fingers x

[rosieposie]

Hi Stew  :hi: The other thing that we all learn in life is that if you like it and it didn't cost too much,then enjoy it.  Just because it isn't what you hoped it was doesn't mean it isn't a pleasure to own.  And when you have had enough of it, you can always sell it on....correctly attributed, of course!

Happy New Year to you, and may 2012 be the best glass collecting year yet for you.

Rosie. 

[ahremck]

Absolutely agree with both Dirk & Rosie.  One of the joys of buying glass that you like is that when you get on this board and find out that it IS a nice piece.  For instance I have 2 really nice Kralik pieces I bought years ago because I liked them.  That nice little square vase turned out to be Stuart Strathearn.  I like the fun of the "chase" in volved in finding and then finding out about what I buy.  And sometimes my limited knowledge can help others have the same joy on a board like this.

Ross

[stew2u2]

all the best to everyone for the new year.
your right Rosie i love glass the way the light acts on each piece. but alas the wife says i have to get rid if i buy some more. i seem to buy get rid get rid buy its a never ending story. love buying then trying to find out who what were ect. the history who drank out of that who put flowers in this vase
thanks
 stew

[rosieposie]

Big empathy there Stew.....my OH is book mad....one room has 3 walls lined floor to ceiling, wall to wall with thousands of books....and piles of them on floors, tables, in the garage, in the loft....everywhere.
I put my foot down and said 'one in, two out'......meaning if you buy another, you must get rid of two.......then I looked around the rest of the house and thought 'Oooooops!' That's a lot of glass!! 
So I have now shut up about the books,  but just look compalcent when a new piece of glass arrives in the post!! 
BTW,  don't mention putting flowers in vases, I was nearly 'excommunicated' for saying that,  it ranks along the same heinous crime as mentioning the word Dus*ing!!
Happy New Year and enjoy your glass collecting. :cheers: