Isaac Singer

One day in 1983 Olle Ohlsson got a call from Bra Böcker's publisher Rolf Jansson. He told him that now the publisher had sold the author Isaac Singer's books in more than one million copies and that this would be given attention.

Singer, who among other things has pointed out that we would not have survived the Second World War without potatoes, would be honored at a gala ceremony and it was Olle Ohlsson's mission this time to shape a potato in gold which then was handed over to the author during a luncheon in New York. Upon reception the Nobel Prize winner commented:
"I think you could have contented yourself with one in silver."

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Gold potato

20-carat gold