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Pottery => What's my Pottery? => Topic started by: Anne E.B. on March 26, 2008, 01:42:45 PM

Title: BEKA Ceramik
Post by: Anne E.B. on March 26, 2008, 01:42:45 PM

I've just bought this little retro looking dish with its label still on.  BEKA KERAMIK BIRGER ALSTROM.  The accents over the letter A makes me think it might be Swedish???   It has BEKA inscribed on the base.

Its a nice little piece with a mottled bronze underglaze and inscribed abstract pattern.

Does anyone know anything about it please?

TIA ;D

Title: Re: BEKA Ceramik
Post by: Lustrousstone on March 26, 2008, 03:07:42 PM

They appear to be in ?rnsk?ldsvik, Sweden, but that's it

Title: Re: BEKA Ceramik
Post by: Anne on March 26, 2008, 04:08:17 PM

I found some more with the BEK? label on Tradera (http://www.tradera.com/Tva_sma_fina_fat_fran_BEKA_Keramik_50_tal-auktion-59888528)
and some more rummaging around found some refs on a Swedish  message board http://www.precisensan.com/antikforum/archive/index.php?t-2701.html where someone asks about BEK? and the replies include these links: http://allehanda.se/arkiv/artikel.php?page=lokalt&id=1509 and http://allehanda.se/arkiv/artikel.php?page=kultur&id=143 both pages in Swedish so perhaps Aine can help figure it out for us?  The online translators scrunch it up so much as to be unreadable.  :boohoo:

Title: Re: BEKA Ceramik
Post by: Anne E.B. on March 26, 2008, 04:49:12 PM

Many thanks Christine and Anne :)

Where are you Aine? ;D

Hopefully, some, or all will be revealed... ;)