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<p>[QUOTE="DragonflyWink, post: 4343876, member: 111"]I've casually collected Viking ship brooches for a lot of years, no avid searching and never spend much, but have gathered quite a few over the years. Did one of my occasional searches on eBay, wading through the Thai dragon boats, Spanish galleons, Greek triremes, Italian gondolas, and the numerous other boat brooches that have nothing to do with Vikings - then saw an unusual Danish sterling piece with the cutest ever smiling dragon masthead, and a decent size at 1.5". Seller hadn't done their research on the maker, but I knew it was by the esteemed Evald Nielsen (one of my favorites) and while I waited to see if my offer was accepted, found a bit of information on its origin. Appears to be part of an uncommon and light-hearted series from around the end of WWII called 'Humør', translated to 'Mood' or 'Good Mood', designed by Nielsen's younger son and partner Bjarne Weimar - found no other ships, just a few figures, like a horse & rider, little mermaid, ice skater, golfer, and dancer. Happily the seller was prompt in response, and I snagged it as soon as he responded - little guy makes me smile too....</p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]359409[/ATTACH]</p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]359410[/ATTACH]</p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p>This was the first piece I saw, and immediately coveted - with the info there, continued on:</p><p><br /></p><p><a href="https://www.decotini.com/page/subpage/scandinavian/evald_nielsen_brooch.htm" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://www.decotini.com/page/subpage/scandinavian/evald_nielsen_brooch.htm" rel="nofollow">https://www.decotini.com/page/subpage/scandinavian/evald_nielsen_brooch.htm</a></p><p>[ATTACH=full]359407[/ATTACH]</p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p>Tracked down the mermaid brooch on a Danish site devoted to Evald Nielsen, the author has now published a book on EN:</p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><a href="http://evaldnielsen.dk/om-evald-nielsen/" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="http://evaldnielsen.dk/om-evald-nielsen/" rel="nofollow">http://evaldnielsen.dk/om-evald-nielsen/</a></p><p>[ATTACH=full]359418[/ATTACH]</p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p>There are a few up for sale now and others already sold, this one is in the original Evald Nielsen/Bjarne Weimar box:</p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><a href="https://www.antikvitet.net/apstort.asp?selbinr=192839" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://www.antikvitet.net/apstort.asp?selbinr=192839" rel="nofollow">https://www.antikvitet.net/apstort.asp?selbinr=192839</a></p><p>[ATTACH=full]359423[/ATTACH]</p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p>~Cheryl[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>
[QUOTE="DragonflyWink, post: 4343876, member: 111"]I've casually collected Viking ship brooches for a lot of years, no avid searching and never spend much, but have gathered quite a few over the years. Did one of my occasional searches on eBay, wading through the Thai dragon boats, Spanish galleons, Greek triremes, Italian gondolas, and the numerous other boat brooches that have nothing to do with Vikings - then saw an unusual Danish sterling piece with the cutest ever smiling dragon masthead, and a decent size at 1.5". Seller hadn't done their research on the maker, but I knew it was by the esteemed Evald Nielsen (one of my favorites) and while I waited to see if my offer was accepted, found a bit of information on its origin. Appears to be part of an uncommon and light-hearted series from around the end of WWII called 'Humør', translated to 'Mood' or 'Good Mood', designed by Nielsen's younger son and partner Bjarne Weimar - found no other ships, just a few figures, like a horse & rider, little mermaid, ice skater, golfer, and dancer. Happily the seller was prompt in response, and I snagged it as soon as he responded - little guy makes me smile too.... [ATTACH=full]359409[/ATTACH] [ATTACH=full]359410[/ATTACH] This was the first piece I saw, and immediately coveted - with the info there, continued on: [URL]https://www.decotini.com/page/subpage/scandinavian/evald_nielsen_brooch.htm[/URL] [ATTACH=full]359407[/ATTACH] Tracked down the mermaid brooch on a Danish site devoted to Evald Nielsen, the author has now published a book on EN: [URL]http://evaldnielsen.dk/om-evald-nielsen/[/URL] [ATTACH=full]359418[/ATTACH] There are a few up for sale now and others already sold, this one is in the original Evald Nielsen/Bjarne Weimar box: [URL]https://www.antikvitet.net/apstort.asp?selbinr=192839[/URL] [ATTACH=full]359423[/ATTACH] ~Cheryl[/QUOTE]
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