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Helminauha means "pearl necklace" in Finnish. The necklace here being the circle at the base which is where these items stand on.
I love this design because of being made of pretty thin glass in spite of a quite thick base, as well as for the "circle of pearls"at their bottom.
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Ok so it had this "beaker" top, clear color but eith two stacked spheres on the bottom. It was pretty thin, almost like medical glass which was throwing me off. Plus I was hungry and crabby. I have remorse of not picking it up. I might make a quick trip out there tomorrow to see if it is still there. Arggggg!
LOL you should!Well, it's a nice design, really fine. By the way., ther is a small version of it (about 15 cm tal)