Glassfloat Research

NOBBED EGGS

2011-09-10T18:38:00.000+02:00

Hello folks

What do you think about those glass floats added below? Click on pictures to enlarge.

Both glass floats are superb and nobbed, found at Bremanger area on the west coast of Norway during a rehab project on a old boathouse.

Both glass floats are up for sale on Ebay, take a look at this url:

BIDDING ON THOSE FLOATS CLICK HERE!

Take good care glassfloat collector friends and happy bidding!

Per

Old knobbed eggs

2011-06-28T20:53:00.000+02:00

Hi folks!

It's been a long time since last blog post and that's tells us a little about how difficult it is to find old glass floats. Especially those who might interest serious glass floats collectors.
Anyway here's four very old glass floats all with knobbed ends and two with old originale hemp rope/net and one with old rope. One is without net as you can see on the light clear green one below.

Colours are: light green on the 3 netted knobbed eggs and and clear glass with a hint of green on the knobbed egg without net.

Size on the large knobbed egg with hemp rope is Inches: 2.756 x 5.512
Size on the second large knobbed egg with hemp rope is Inches: 2.756 x 5.315
Size on the Next knobbed egg with old rope is Inches: 2.559 x 5.512
And the last without net is Inches: 2.362 x 5.197

give me a bid or offer on my email: pgunnarsen@hotmail.com

pgunnarsen@hotmail.com

Take good care

pereinar123

Expedition this spring

2011-03-21T12:20:00.001+01:00

Just an upgrade:

Expedition up north Norway is cancelled this spring due to lack of sponsorship and personal reasons. A new and interesting move and construction project will be prioritized.

Rotted net

2011-02-01T09:02:00.001+01:00

My last find was rotted and very, very dusty. We had to find facemask or whatever the name is for those mask seen on picture.
I don't know what kind of dust but it felt like smoking 30 sigarettes.
Those floats and net was found in the Haugesund - Stavanger (Finnøy) area and are markt with F2, dotted F, M, dotted Q or something similar and two unmarked glass floats.
Fishing net is a Herring net and I guess it is from approx year 1930 - 1950 made from hemp and old wool rope.
Those netted floats Are beautiful, but the whole fishing net is rotted (part of it)and old junk.

look at pictures

Per E.
Sendt fom my iPhone

Year 2011 expedition

2011-01-15T18:37:00.006+01:00

Happy New Year followers from this blog and I hope all is well with you!

As some of you already know a new plan for a new expedition is in the works!
A new plan is initiated and the first people who had to have something interesting to sell and tell have already been contacted and an appointment for a visit and an inspection is done .
Area:
It appears that the tour starts in North Troms and will be completed in Vesterålen. The tour will be conducted by Vessel including my SUV and equipment from Bergen Harbor as usual and I will stay in Tromsø, a few days before I go on to the destination that will also be my base for approx. 14 days. The base is located in a beautiful area right on the beach and is an excellent strategic starting point for this particular type of collecting old history and fishing equipment.
New research plan:
I have learned a lot from my previous expeditions, and this expedition will be organized in a better way to comb the areas of interest. The tour will also be better documented due. I've made an upgrade to the professional photographic equipment and bought the best equipment that is to get hold of on the market today that also allows the photographer to make video recording with sound and not just images.
Base:

My base is a large modern house with all facilities available-and there is space for approx. 10 people, so it can probably get a little lonely, but it does not matter since I prefer rest between trips out to search for lost treasures. Anyway house is already booked for 14 days and as you can see from the picture and area it's a beautiful and stunning area with only approx.1 hour distance from the famous Lofoten area and Vesteraalen area.
End of the expedition:
This expedition will also continue when the vessel and my SUV arrives in Bergen Harbor, the ride will go north of Bergen, and I will continue the expedition along with a good friend and companion sailing north along the west coast with a yacht. Here we have opportunities for using a small rubber boat (Zodiac type) so that we can explore the narrow fjords, islets and reefs for a few days.

Sponsorship and funds:
If any of you reading this blog and who are familiar with how we can fix this economically so that I do not have to cover all costs of this expedition alone. Please send me an email so that we can agree on a possible sponsorship deal that everyone can take part in and benefit from.

PS. If anyone consider join me on this expedition please let me know, but I only have one seat available in my SUV, but you will get your own private room inside the house (look at picture above.)

Per

A few Beauties and important info

2010-08-30T16:00:00.002+02:00

Hello collector friends!

I have a few floats up for sale this week, beautiful floats and start price is low.

I also want you to listen at my next news information from Norway concerning glass floats and super rare finds here in Norway. I guess I have found the holy grail among glass floats...wow.. this find is just gorgeous and you all have to tell your float collector friends out there about my last find. I will tell you more and give you exact information about glass float mark, age, condition etc. from this blog in mid september and on the seahermit blog (Tom's blog) in mid september. Remember to look into these web sites often. THIS FLOAT FIND IS SUPER WOW!
I WILL ALSO CONSIDER SELL ONE OR TWO GLASS FLOATS from this "HolyGrail" find so if anyone are serious interested, I recommend you all to start saving ;) None of these "HolyGrail" floats have ever been offered for sale on Ebay or elsewhere!

Anyway here is a few ordinary floats up for sale at Ebay today:

CLICK HERE

GROOVED EGG

2010-08-23T13:15:00.000+02:00

Just a reminder:

My last grooved egg float up for auction at ebay today, float is a beauty with plenty bubbles in the glass, take a zoom look at picture 4 in the auction.

Follow this link a go on bidding folks!

My last find on the west coast of Bergen

2010-06-25T22:54:00.001+02:00

Hi glass float collectors!

If you look closely into the picture you'll see a boat house down by the sea, boat house owner passed away 3 years ago and he was a great guy, fisherman, farmer and carpenter. He worked hard every day for an income and was very clever her daughter told me. He's name was Nils J. Solvik and was situated at Klokkarvik just a few miles north/west from center Bergen. Glass floats added in this post was found upstairs inside he's boathouse during a restoration on the ceiling.

Fishing nets was rotted and had plenty hole, floats and net was in good shape for its age and I bought a few egg floats and an extremely beautiful round 4" float with plenty bubbles, swirls in the glass, look at pictures, it was very difficult to get a picture in the right light to show the real beauty from this float.

All egg floats are approx. 4 x 3" and very old and was used on deep sea fishing net

Antique eggs and beautiful netted.

Anyone interested in a purchase, let me know!

Fishing net with grooved glass floats

2010-06-06T14:32:00.001+02:00

Hi Glassfloat collector friends!

This is a very rare find here in Norway and the first grooved glass float fishing net I ever seen, just look at the pictures below and enjoy.

Net with grooved Flesland Glasswork floats was found in a boathouse just about 1 hour drive east from center Bergen, Norway. Found in a municipality with the name Os. The owner had planned to sell it cut into small pieces with glass floats. But we agreed on a good but somewhat expensive deal for the fishing net, so I am pleased and very satisfyed! And I'm guessing that the new owner is happy and waiting in anticipation to receive a fishing net with all those beauties added and with a quality and historic interest for all float collectors and people with old fishing and antique interest all over the world, especially people from Norway or people who originated from Norway.

Anyway the grooved glass float fishing net was used for fishing at sea (look at the picture with meter added into mask) I guess it was used in a fjord named Bjørnefjorden and other fjords in the Os area.

Thank you for the purchase and take good care of it!

Net is made from rope (not nylon) I guess this net has been dipped in a powder named blåstein = bluestone powder in US language I guess, anyway this blue powder was often used by fishermen here in Norway, it was used to impregnate fishing nets and rope, powder and hot water!

O markt amber glass float 3.54 Inch

2010-04-27T14:43:00.000+02:00

I was digging in my garden among several floats and found
an amber float with net and the makers mark O. Float size
is approx 3.54 Inch or 9cm.
Anyone who know something about this mark?

If you are interested you'll find it here:

Take good care everyone and have fun!

The dotted 9 mark

2010-04-16T14:33:00.000+02:00

Hello again glassfloat friends.

I have a question for you collectors out there, have you ever seen or examin a float like the one on picture below? It is an interesting mark but no one seems to be interested in this old and rare float and mark...why?
I remember from my float research that several floats with marks (dotted 9) was found in areas far north. Several samples was found in Vesteraalen area and a few samples was found on the west coast of Finnmark (Havøysund area) I had several samples in my collection, all are now sold to a Norwegian collector in Haugesund area, except for one and you'll find it for sale on Ebay today.

Anyone who know something about this float, were from, who produced it, etc. etc.

GROOVED EGGS FROM NORWAY

2010-04-14T13:43:00.003+02:00

Hey Glassfloat friends!

I hope you all will enjoy my blog posts and info + pictures.

As you all know Grooved Eggs from Flesland Glassverk are valuable and every glassfloat collectors must have floats from Norway.
I remember during my research in old archives in state archives here in Bergen and at the library several years ago I found information about a guy and share holder at Flesland Glasswork, he's name was or is Oscar Anderssen and he was the founder or inventer from those grooved eggs here in Norway back in the old days, I don't know when Oscar Anderssen begun the experimential tests or produced grooved eggs but I found paperwork from a Patent or an application for a patent and I guess it was year 1936-38.

I don't remember exactly so if anyone have information and paperwork from the above info please let me know!

From my examin and study of the grooved dotted F and the grooved F1 glass float it seems like both floats has been made from the same form, also blown in a form at Flesland Glassverk. You can find the same indentations all over the float like tiny bumps in exactly the same spots in the glass. look at pictures below:

As mentioned earlier I now have a few eggs up for sale:
One grooved green dotted F and one grooved egg F1. both eggs are great, the dotted egg show some scratches on the edges from use at sea so I have set the price on the dotted egg at 99.00USD and the grooved perfect green(light green) F1 at 125.00USD both eggs will sell together for 220.00USD + shipping 19.00USD
I want to sell after the first man to come, first served basis! FLOATS ARE SOLD!
Congrats to the new owner (Robert)
PICTURES From both and below pictures from the grooved dotted egg first, Enjoy:

Grooved F1:

New floats

2010-04-12T16:37:00.000+02:00

Hi glass float collectors.

Floats from my last purchase here in Norway!
on picture below a few
grooved eggs dotted F and ordinary F
will examin that ordinary F and look for numbers later on.

Send me an email if you are interested!

I also have one Bjørum Glassverk float and one ordinary oval float

Size is: approx 3" or less

This ordinary egg float is great and size is: 3,5in x 2,4in, float has no mark.

Old collectors item available today

2010-03-18T19:43:00.001+01:00

Hi collector friends,

Vintage Maritime Iron a great addition to your maritime collection.
What do you think, interesting isn't it?
As you all know from my earlier research etc. I have been
collecting everything that could lead to clarification of
unknown brands and manufacturers from marine gear, glass, etc.
worldwide. Pictures below are as you can see, an Iron, very old
and a beautiful collectors item!

Its available for sale at ebay today
Take a look

New floats added today...

2010-03-17T18:27:00.000+01:00

Several beauties and some interesting marks added today on Ebay

Take a look at my floats on.....

2010-03-16T17:41:00.000+01:00

Hi collector friends!

Old collector floats and net, seawater marker
, old amtique fishing gear on my Ebay Sales
this week.

Take a look!

Per

Floats and fishing gear at my.......

2010-03-07T14:13:00.003+01:00

Hello my friends,

Just shoot a few pictures from outside my little house
down by the sea used to store fishing gear, glass floats
,firewood and you name it.

If you find anything interesting below, please let me know
and I will consider sell it, just give me a bid at:
pegunnar@broadpark.no

Enjoy!

Per

Old Mustad hooks

Marker Bouy

Herring nets and another old marker bouys

Very old cod etc, fishing net approx 25 glass floats diferent colours (green + clear) all floats have different kind of makers marks all dotted. Heavy steel iron rings mounted at the bottom.

Cod and allround nylon fishing net with several green glass float + green rope

Huge green (left) and rare amber/orange 5" glass float on the right.

Marker bouys etc. + on top hanging from the herring net, old china and jug with old steam boats etc. added, please let me know if you are interested in an old norwegian drinking jug or plate with boats. I have a few samples for sale.

Needle for net repair and glass float net make

Russian cork float

Net repair tool

Pictures above was from outside my little house down by the sea, I also have several floats stored in boxes up on the attic inside my main house.

Russian floats (corks)

Portugese glass floats 8"

AAsnæs glass floats 5"

FG Made In Norway glass floats

Wood Barrel floats very old with fisherman signatures burn-etched onto the barrel etc, used on herring nets late year 1800 early 1900

Plenty very heavy fishing gear that will have huge weight consider postage costs, please ask for shipping costs before you consider bid on my items!

The planned expedition:

2010-02-05T16:44:00.000+01:00

The planned expedition and research in February and early March has been postponed due lack of sponsors and new info about the base are closed for a few days or so at the end of this month.
I don't know if there will be another expedition this year, BUT there is still hope.....
Deadline is Thuesday next week, any sponsors are very welcome.

HD

2010-01-21T04:00:00.001+01:00

Hindø damskibsselskab gains in the fjord was a spearhead of modernization event of the fishing industry in northern Norway. The company used quick fish steamers, purse seine, fresh fish year-round shipping and fishing over large areas, and salted and exported herring. Hindø Dampskibsselskab was apparently the first shipping company in Northern Norway that started using purse seine
Hindø Dampskibsselskap A / S was a company that ran bank fishing and herring fishing.
Path to the shipping company began in 1875, when trader Christoffer Gerhard Ellingsen situated at Kvitnes in Hadsel took the initiative to buy the little steamer "Kvik". Several men from Vesterålen and Lofoten got together and bought the boat. In 1883 founded Christoffer Ellingsen and his sons Karl and Jens a stock company with the aim of purchase a larger ship. The following year, the company name Dampskibet Hindøs interessentskap (Steamship Hindøs partnership), and in 1893 the name was Hindø Dampskibsselskap A / S. The company's office moved in 1899 from Kvitnes to Sigerfjord in Sortland.
Steamship Company went well, and new ships were acquired. In 1898 the company received the fishing boat "Skolpen", and in year 1902 attempt fishing on the coast of Finnmark, fishing spot Stolpenbanken was found during this fishery, and was named after the boat.
Sigerfjord had good growth in population in the decades around the turn of the century, from 7.8 families 1880c to approx. 600 inhabitants in 1916. Sigerfjord was the second largest place in Vesteraalen after Andenes. The progress at Sigerfjord and the shipping company continued to 1920, when fish prices went down and the herring fishery over several seasons failed. Hindø Dampskibsselskap was dissolved in 1923.

I am waiting for further documentation next month.

Well this is the new info, just a few pictures from the Board Regulations written in year 1911 and nothing very interesting concerning floats.

AASNÆS

2010-01-21T01:41:00.002+01:00

AASNÆS GLASSWORK

It was Johan Christian Vogelsang who started production at Aasnæs Glasværk situated in Namdalseid mid Norway. Aasnæs Glasværk was in operation from 1813 to 1883, and it was one of a total of 6 glassworks in Namdalen in the 1800s. (Namdalseid and Trondheim area, mid Norway)

Glassworks in Namdalseid and Trondheim area, mid Norway;
Sørvig: 1808 - 1821
Holmen: 1812 to 1840
Jøssund: 1854 +
Namsos: 1855 - 1867
Bjørum: 1873 - 1886

Aasnæs was depended on timber from the namdalske forests of glass-melting. Both crofters and farmers got a little extra income by delivering at the plant, up to a Norwegian speciedaler rates. embrace of, or payment in the form of glass or corn.

The relatively close proximity to the coast were also favorable, given the need for another important raw material: seaweed ashes. seaweed Ash Burning was an additional income for the primary industries along the coast.

In 1830 established Aasnæs 84 different products. Ten years later the glass crests became a new and important product. When the glass is neither south was in decline from the 1840s, delivered Aasnæs most of what was required of glass floats to fisheries in mid and Northern Norway.

Glass production gave employment to almost the entire village and had ripple effects for a large catchment area. In 1865 was 129 persons residing under Aasnæs. In 1875 there were four houses for the workers at the construction site with a total of 95 persons in 31 households.
Two glass blowers work one day at a melting pot, gave one hundred beer bottles.
It was produced carafes, lion bottles (jagtflasker or hunt bottles I guess the name is in US English), apothecary glass and window panes, and they were shipped out from the pier at Aasnæs via Namsen Fjord to outlets in Trondheim and Bergen. With the boats in the fjord was seaweed ash from the coastal municipalities, clay and brown sand from Holland, brown stone from Bergen and quartz sand from Vega at the Helgelands coast mid Norway.
Aasnæs Glass Works was one of the most important glass producers in Norway for the manufacture of bottles and window glass. In addition, glass crests was a main product of Aasnæs

Source; Aasnæs Glassverk

Glasswork in Norway and some info

2010-01-18T18:04:00.007+01:00

I remember have told you about this facts before
and the list are old and not up to date and it says
Høvik 1855-1933 so I was wrong about my latest
research info on The Seahermit blog

Anyway here's another fact list date; year 1948
Take a look at the ISE Glassworks, totally unknown
and was operative from year 1810 and closed down
year 1816.
Guess those deep amber or nearly black heavy old glass floats
markt I can be the Ise Glasswork ID

The Made In Germany float find from 2007

The Unknown and rare 7mark from Andenes and

the old fishing gear house and fish-hung building with

the same 7mark outside and on doors inside the building

Sceleton in front is from a spermwhale jaws.

If anyone have information about the 7mark, please

let me know.

Bergen Harbor

2009-12-24T13:32:00.000+01:00

Merry Christmas and a very happy new year!

I hope 2010 will bring plenty interesting old antique research news and float finds for you all, and thank you all for your kind support.

All the best from Bergen, Norway and Per

Desember 09.2009

2009-12-09T17:48:00.000+01:00

Nothing new from Bergen and Norway only Xmas shopping and Obama Security and the Nobel Peace Prize in Oslo, maybe I can ask Obama a question about using glass floats instead of those plastic floats to prevent pollution and stop Global Warming...LoL..

Sale and finds:
As I told you before, those two eggs was sold to an Norwegian collector and good friend and my rest from the Ålesund find is also sold to another Norwegian collector.

Another person who'is or was the owner of an old antique store up north is now working and digging for rare floats up north among he's fishermen friends and contacts.
So all we have to do is wait for interesting and rare floats to show up, he has my list and wish for floats and marks and I have also sendt a letter including my collector friends wishes.

Merry X-mas and take good care everyone!

My last find (eggs)

2009-11-26T21:47:00.000+01:00

Eggs are sold!

Thank you for your interest and all bids!

Per

Rare egg shaped floats

2009-11-24T15:34:00.002+01:00

Hi glassfloat collector friends!
On pictures added below you can se an ordinary egg (M) mark and olive color, size approx 3 1/2" x 2 1/2" and the very rare and very old heavy egg float, olive color, no mark or is it a mark? (look at pictures) size approx; 7" x 4 1/3" My guess is that these hard to find, heavy old eggs are the first floats made here in Norway and I guess from my research it have to be approx late year 1700 - 1840, that's my guess. What do you think?

My plan with these floats is to sell both floats together not separately to the high bidder, you can use this email for bids pegunnar@broadpark.no or per@fotomanisk.com

Perfect Xmas gift for any collector ;) Ps. CLICK ON PICTURES for closeup images!

Both eggs are from the same area on the west coast mid Norway (My last travel and research)

Per

Who came first, the glass float egg or the Eagle

2009-11-15T19:56:00.001+01:00

Was visiting Molde area and the west coast this weekend beautiful weather conditions, sunny and warmt daytime and deep frozen during the night and early in the morning. I was sleeping in a cabin situated in the middle of nowhere used for Bird of prey hide and my sleeping bag was for temperature above zero degrees. But it was fun, plenty wildlife and interesting birds like; European Eagles, Golden Eagle and Sea Eagle (I don't know the US name for those birds but they are related to the Bald Eagle.

A few very interesting teardrops showed up but you know, it is difficult to get a deal when all floats was from an exhibition at an local Pizza Restaurant. I tried my very best but ended up with plenty Pizza!

Here's the Golden Eagle, she is laying on all those rare mid size and heavy glass float eggs...LoL Seriously; This is a shot from Friday morning approx 11.00 and she is sitting on a top of a tree waiting for the huge Golden Eagle on the picture below finishing he's meal!
What an experience se all those wild eagles...WoW... and I got plenty interesting pictures too. And those glass egg floats will arrive mid next week.
Take good care my friends!
Per

My blog name has changed

2009-11-11T18:01:00.000+01:00

New blog name from floataholic into pereinar123, so you all know and understand who I am. The Norwegian glass float collector and seller from the west coast of Norway (Bergen) LoL, Remember me??

Per

Fast and unknown travel on Thursday 12.11.2009

2009-11-10T18:22:00.001+01:00

Hi collector friends!

I have done a deal with a local fishermen from my advertising at my last expedition area today. A very rare and very old Norwegian oval egg/pear shaped glass float, Color is green and size approx. 8" high and has a circumference at approx 14" or approx 4 1/2" - 5 1/2" x 8". Will add a picture or two into this blog when I am back home from my travel. My flight is early in the morning Thursday and I will have more facts for you mid next week.

Per

Ps.
It is also a kind of funny to read Tom's blog http://seahermit.blogspot.com/ and find that he also found a similar treasure like I did on my expedition last year digging for floats on the beach several hundred miles across the earth , look at pictures:

Glass floats sale in Norwegian stores

2009-11-04T17:03:00.000+01:00

News:

Now the Norwegians also begun to sell glass floats in shops all over Norway. Curio glass floats!
Some also have a rare neck, be aware; this is curio floats and not old authentic glass floats!!

Just a few pictures from my earlier expeditions

2009-11-01T17:50:00.001+01:00

Plenty teardrops and old oval floats seen at an attic far north, let me know if you are interested in a purchase or two and I will contact the owner.

Approx 10-12 teardrops and a few old heavy oval green floats.

Teardrop size approx 18" color amber, blue and green

Oval size approx. 6-7"

VERY high price level! starts at 1400.00USD + Shipping