Stavangerflint Trivet

This looks like Inger Waage to me.  It does seem to be getting harder to find non-souvenir pieces of Stavangerflint, like this.

Stavangerflint Per Spelmann

I posted one of the trivets before, but here is the rest of the collection.  Designed by Gro Pedersen Claussen.

Figgjo Flint Norge Trivet

Porsgrund Trivet

This Porsgrund trivet was my grandma's.  It has a poem by John Herman Wessel about sandwiches and love... I think some of the meaning is lost in the online translations, though.

Figgjo Flint Large Norge Plaque

The Norge design by Figgjo Flint is new to me.  The colors are more subdued than the Saga and Mons og Milles designs, and I'm not sure who the artist was.

Dining Room

On the plate rail - the Figgjo Saga plaque and two Stavangerflint Per Spelmann trivets.

Per Spelmann Trivet by Stavangerflint

A Stavangerflint trivet designed by Gro Pedersen Claussen.  She was at Stavangerflint from 1963 until 1967, and then continued to provide freelance design to Stavangerflint/Figgjo until 1977.  This is part of a series based on traditional Norwegian folk songs.

From the Norwegian Melodies site:

"'PER SPELMANN' (Per the Musician) is the story of a musician who trades his only cow to get back his good, old violin. He plays that instrument until the fiddle laughs, the boys dance, and the girls cry!"

The translation from the Norwegian Melodies site is below - the trivet only has the first verse.

Per, the musician, had only one cow,

He traded the cow, got his fiddle back,

"You old, good violin, you violin,

You fiddle mine!”

Per, the musician, he played,
And the fiddle, she laughed!
 'Til the boys were dancing,
And the girls cried.
"You old, good violin, you violin,
You fiddle mine!”

And if I become old
As moss on a tree,
Then never would I trade away
Fiddle again.
"You old, good violin, you violin,
You fiddle mine!”

Figgjo Flint Folklore Trivet Number 2

The second of my pair of Folklore trivets - this one's Yoda-inspired translation is: "One's appetite appeased can be with a vintage wine."

Figgjo Flint Folklore Trivet

And someone provided a convenient, and literal, translation on the back. As Yoda would say, "Congenial company saves food expense."

Mons og Mille, Part 3

The last pair of the six Mons og Mille trivets, by Figgjo Flint, designed by Turi Gramstad Oliver.  I've reposted the other two pairs from my earlier posts, too.

Mons og Mille, Part 2

Two more of the Mons og Mille trivets by Figgjo Flint, designed by Turi Gramstad Oliver.

Mons og Mille

One recent eBay find was a set of six Mons og Mille trivet plaques by Figgjo Flint of Norway, designed by Turi Gramstad Oliver.  Here are two of them.  I tried an online translator for Mons og Mille (although I knew "og" meant "and") - and it means Mons and Mille.  So there you go.

The backs all have the identical mark.  I like that even the marks on the back look like they were designed by Turi.

Where to start

Best to start with a viking. This was designed by Kåre Berven Fjeldsaa.

Trivet by Stavangerflint.