5th Apr, 2023 9:30

ANTIQUES

 
Lot 487
 

487

A SET OF FOUR LIMITED EDITION MOOMIN MERCHANDISING PRINTS, 1956

'Moomintroll & Little My', 'Snufkin', 'Snorkmaiden' and 'Sniff', mounted. (4) 15cm by 12cm incl. mount

Printed by Kromipanio Helsinku. Exclusively printed for Stockmann luxury department store in Helsinki and NK Stockholm in 1956 to be used for the first commercial Moomin products manufactured by former Vaasan Saippuatehdas (1886-1987) in Vaasa Finland.

Sold for £180


 

'Moomintroll & Little My', 'Snufkin', 'Snorkmaiden' and 'Sniff', mounted. (4) 15cm by 12cm incl. mount

Printed by Kromipanio Helsinku. Exclusively printed for Stockmann luxury department store in Helsinki and NK Stockholm in 1956 to be used for the first commercial Moomin products manufactured by former Vaasan Saippuatehdas (1886-1987) in Vaasa Finland.

Auction: ANTIQUES, 5th Apr, 2023

Our April sale has over 800 lots of ceramics and glass, metalwork, silver, Asian art, objects of vertu, militaria, textiles, rugs and carpets, clocks and instruments, antique furniture and Yorkshire oak. We are excited to be selling a large 19th Century micromosaic plaque depicting the Temple of Vesta (lot 383). Our experts recently discovered this tremendous example during a valuation day in the North-West. We are also delighted to offer three pieces of Chinese armorial porcelain from the documented P.B. Cooke collection (lots 217-219), a single-owner collection of Doulton art pottery (lots 121-172), and a rare Rene Lalique topaz ‘Bacchantes’ vase (lot 41).

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