Topic: Strange whisky tumbler

[Lustrousstone]

It's very heavy and very thick (4mm at the top). The base is a rounded indent with ground edges and the chipping often associated with such grinding. 8.5 cm tall and 7.5 cm top diameter. Plenty of wear on base and top edge, but very little damage. Has anyone any idea how old it might be please?
See top , base and side

[Frank]

Too small for a whisky tumbler, more like a shot-glass. Could have been made locally for Mediterranean tourist bars, or not.

[Ivo]

I have a set of same shape same size same finish glasses with a blue thread around the edge and found out they were English 19th century. Now of course I cannot find the reference again - but they're defo not for the "get peed in Magaluf" trade.

[Lustrousstone]

Too big for a shot glass and buckets of wear where the poor thing has been stored both on its top and its bottom for years. If it was in normal thicknes glass you would say it was definitely a whisky tumbler. It's crudely made to a high standard, if that makes sense. Reminds me of some of the so-called illusion glasses

[Lustrousstone]

Thought this could do with reviving 

[Ming]

Hi Christine

I am one of this funny tumbler collector and even have a book on tumbler. I think your tumbler is not old at all. It does not have the look of a old tumbler. Much look like a modern whisky shot glass. Just because the base is worn does not make it old. A few year moving around on the table does shown.

[Lustrousstone]

I disagree. It's not modern; it's completely hand made and I would doubt it was made in either the 20th or the 21st century. I don't know much about glasses but I do know a bit about glass

[Pinkspoons]

There were similar wares produced in Denmark from around 1850 onwards. I'm not saying it's Danish by any stretch, but because Denmark had no real tradition of glass design at this time they plundered heavily from elsewhere and so their output is strongly indicative of what was popular in other countries around the same time, often with very little modification.

[Lustrousstone]

At the glass fair on Sunday, one of the stalls of old glasses had several different tumblers in just this form with the ground base rim and deep base indent. They were slightly better made, slightly larger and finer, and had less of a deceptive glass appearance. They were described as German 1810 and 1850. On that basis, I am happy to assign mine to the first half of the 19th C and probably Continental Europe.