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Vase by Knut Bergqvist - Lindefors 1929-31.

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rebessin's items2 of 116Strömbergshyttan B 720 or B920?Ryds Glasbruk, Sweden - Three light blue vases.
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    Posted 1 year ago

    rebessin
    (116 items)

    Back to CW after 8 years break.
    A vase designed and blown by the master Knut Bergqvist, Lindefors 1929-31. From 1933 the Strömberg family came from Eda glassworks, that had gone bankrupt. They leased Lindefors and renamed it to Strömbergshyttan. Eric Strömberg bought the factory from the main owner Axel Träff in 1945. Lindefors started in 1876 and in 1918-20 it was closed down and sold to a wood products company in Oskarshamn. The company never started up any glass production and the glassworks became fallow and decayed. In 1925, owner of Mjölby Kristallglassliperi Axel Träff, bougth Lindefors and in 1928-29 he renovated and extended the factory in partnership with Knut Bergqvist and his nephew Eugen Bergqvist. Until then, they had worked for Orrefors glassworks and now both became co-owners beside the main owner Träff. Knut was both designer, leader and masterblower. Eugen also leader and administrator. Most of the glass was raw glass produced för the Australian market and shipped once a week to Mjölby for crystal grinding. But some glass was also completed on site in Lindefors. Both hot finished and ground in the newly built grinding workshop. The optic blown and driven vase in this post is one of the glass pieces completed in Lindefors. It's 26 cm tall and 15 cm wide on the top. The yellowish glass melt was used (among other colors as green and purple) for the own production in Lindefors.

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    1. vetraio50 vetraio50, 1 year ago
      A beautiful vase and great to read the history behind it. Welcome back !!!!
    2. rebessin rebessin, 1 year ago
      Thanks vetraio50 !

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