Dansk Designs Silver Turtle Tortoise Paperweight Vintage Danish Retro Scandinavian Animal Lovers Gifts Present

Vintage Dansk Designs Turtle Tortoise Silver Plated Paperweight.

Large and very rare silver plated turtle/tortoise in its original presentation box.

The Turtle was part of a series of larger Dansk paperweights that have a two tone matt and gloss silver plated finish.

Excellent vintage condition with only very minor signs of age.

It is approximately 5cm high, 9cm wide and weighs 500g.

This cute paperweight is made of silver-plated zinc.

Most of this range was designed by award-winning Swedish silversmith, Gunnar Cyren.

Made for Dansk Designs in Japan in the 1970s/80s.

Has ‘Dansk Designs, Japan’ imprinted on its base plus 'EPZ', signifying its manufacturing technique of electro-plated zinc, a technology that the Japanese led the world in at the time.

As well as looking great, these paperweights are extremely tactile and have a real quality feel about them. It would make a wonderful gift.
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Dansk Designs was started in the 1950s by an American who toured Europe seeking out talented designers to produce a range of homewares he could sell to the US market.

The range was designed to showcase Danish and Scandinavian design to an international audience and, due to their wonderful combination of form and function, Dansk Design items have become highly collectible including in their ‘home country’ of Denmark.
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Note that we have attempted to show and state the condition as accurately as possible but this is a pre-loved, vintage item and some minor signs of age and/or use are to be expected.

There may also be slight variations in the colours shown due to lighting, the camera lens and the device the image is viewed through.
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