Keith Glein
WP #88 is the number "31".
These floats are classified as uncommon and as you might expect they are hard to find.
This float was purchased from the 'WizardofWas' (aka John Guimond).
This abosulutely gorgeous piece of glass is called a Danish Pear.
It's a wonderful blue color.
These floats are classified as OR #238 in Olaf Raabe's book on Euro floats.
This float measures about 7 1/2 inches wide and 9 1/2 inches tall. It's very heavy for its size.
It has excellent provenance having been found by David Neff in Scandinavia.
This Swedish Bjorkshult float is an unusual smokey grey color.
It's classified as OR #37 in Olaf Raabe's book.
This float is made with thick glass, an indication that is an authentic float used for fishing.
It measures about 7 3/4 inches in diameter.
It has excellent provenance having been found by David Neff in Scandinavia.
This is a classic Pumpkin float with a single patch.
It measures about 13 inches in diameter.
It's a light green color.
This float was found in Japan.
This is an extremely rare Hokkaido blue dot roller.
Finding a blue seal on a roller is hard. Blue dots were only found on mini jumbos; until now. As far as I can tell, this float is the only blue dot ever found on a Hokkaido roller that measures 5 1/4 inches. Another Hokkaido roller with a dark blue seal sold on Facebook in the DOND group in 2022.
It's the smaller size Hokkaido roller measuring about 5 1/4 inches in length.
This roller is a light green color.
Beautiful Japanese sun-turned float that's completely frosted.
It's hard to find Japanese floats that are sun-turned. This is an exception example because size and opulent frosting.
This float measures about 5 inches in diameter.
It has excellent provenance because it was purchased at the 2021 Westport Float Show from Alan Rammer as part of the ex-Stu Fransworth collection.
Mark WP #273 is Maru Ki キ or an encirlcled Ki キ symbol.
This float is about 2 1/2 inches in diameter.
This simple mark seems to be the symbol 'Boku' 卜. It's an undocumented mark.
This measures about 2 1/2 inches in diameter.
This roller is called a Double Ended Dildo.
This shape of roller used to be quite rare. There was a large cache of these rollers found in Japan in 2021, so they're not rare anymore in fact they are common.
These Double Ender's now serve as a cautionary tale to collectors that a float that's very rare can become common at any time if a large number of them are suddenly found.
This particular double ender has a two tone quality to it, where one end is a little bit darker shade of green and than the other end.
It measures 6 1/2 inches in length.
This is a large Sun-Turned Japanese float.
These are quite rare and highly collectible.
It measures 34 inches in circumference or about 11 inches in diameter.
It also has a considerable amount of water inside with no visible means of getting into the float.
This pie seal was part of a 3 float lot that I purchased from Japan.
The float measures about 4 inches in diameter.
This pie seal was part of a 3 float lot that I purchased from Japan.
The float measures about 4 inches in diameter.