🔎 UNIDENTIFIED Lillehammer

[OnyxxOr]

Hi folks,

I have these Lillehammer bowls, from Norway as I understand, and would like to find somebody with specific expertise on them.
Ideally to help me with some sort of idea of their age / rarity.

Thanks for any insights!!

 

[Red-Coat]

Welcome to Tnet.

It would help if you gave some indication of size.

Unless they're a lot bigger than I'm imagining, I would say you have a set of candleholders of a souvenir nature and probably circa 1950s. I can't see them having any great value.

No other marks on the bases?

 

[OnyxxOr]

Welcome to Tnet.

It would help if you gave some indication of size.

Unless they're a lot bigger than I'm imagining, I would say you have a set of candleholders of a souvenir nature and probably circa 1950s. I can't see them having any great value.

No other marks on the bases?

Hi @Red-Coat,

Thank you for taking a look at my query - I Really appreciate it!!
I do have some dimensions and weights on those, I just need to confirm them when I get home.

Unfortunately, there are no other distinguishing marks on them (Such as a maker's mark), but as I'm told, my Grand Mother received them as a wedding gift / dowry back in the 40s so seems they predate the 50's

I will update with those dimensions and some additional photos this evening when I return home

Thanks again!!

 

[Almy]

I have been to Lillehammer around the time the Winter Olympics were held there and my first thought was that they might be souvenirs of that. But according to your information, these pre-date the Olympics by several years.

I have also seen handmade craft items like wooden cake holders when I was in rural Norway intended as gifts. These brass items look handmade to me and perhaps are in the same category. They are really nice.

 

[Red-Coat]

I have been to Lillehammer around the time the Winter Olympics were held there and my first thought was that they might be souvenirs of that. But according to your information, these pre-date the Olympics by several years.

I have also seen handmade craft items like wooden cake holders when I was in rural Norway intended as gifts. These brass items look handmade to me and perhaps are in the same category. They are really nice.

Lillehammer was a popular ski resort with souvenirs available long before the 1994 Winter Olympics.

 

[AU Seeker]

To me they appear to be mass produced bowls that the original vendor purchased cheaply as possible and hand stamped "Lillehammer" on them to sell in their business in the town, you can clearly see they were hand stamped and not very carefully by the various spacing and misalignment of the letters, which is not consistent on each piece.