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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;2manybooks, post: 10419115, member: 8267&quot;]Now I have 2!</p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]524352[/ATTACH]</p><p><br /></p><p>The seller said this one was purchased by his mother about 25 years ago from an antique shop in Florida.</p><p><br /></p><p>My efforts at research reinvigorated, I have communicated with a few specialists on Zulu telephone wire baskets and one who collects wire covered bottles from Hungary. The consensus seems to be that these baskets are most likely from mid-century Hungary. With the story of the Hungarian grandmother for the first basket, and a Florida origin for the second (it is not hard to imagine another Hungarian grandmother having retired to Florida), this seems like the most promising origin story. </p><p><br /></p><p>As the baskets are virtually identical in shape and structure, just with a different color scheme, I would assume they were made by the same artist (or at least a group working in the same shop). My pipe dream would be to find a documented example that credits the artist, but that may be too much to hope for.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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