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Author Topic: Manhattan/Depression Goblet/water glasses with gold grapes and leaves pattern  (Read 1892 times)

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Offline supertiki

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Hello,

For our wedding gift, my aunt gave me a few boxes of random china and glassware that were "her treasures". I would like to know what these treasures are. I have five of these very thick stemmed goblet looking things. The stem looks very similar to the manhattan style of depression glass. The pattern is etched into a gold leaf looking band.







Any help would be greatly appreciated! Thank you for this great site and your willingness to help!

Sara

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Sara, hi and welcome to the board!

These are known as rummers, or in plain speak: French/German white wine glasses. My son has quite a collection of them - all fairly recent and many still being sold. He loves them as they are almost impossible to tip over, even for a ham-fisted lad! ;) http://www.yobunny.org.uk/gallery1/thumbnails.php?album=42 <--- just some of his!

Yours are rather nice!
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Also known as römers or roemers.

This style has been around for a very long time http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rummer , though yours are fairly modern.

Here are a couple of mine, probably very late 19th/early 20th century
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The latter often associated with Schachtenbach Hütte ~1860-1880, Christine.  :)
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Thanks Dirk  :-* (I've seen ones likes the green and white one in Silber & Fleming, but no hints of origin)

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 :-* back! Sure you've already found a few with google... I think Uwe Wolf has some on his site, too. :)

@Sara: Think your rummers are 50's onward, too. Quite nice since not as over-decorated as others - good balance.  :)
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Thanks for all the help! I probably should have guessed they were European as my aunt lived in Germany for many years including her married life. Sorry for the late response - we had a storm and I've been without power for a while. Do you know if there's a way to determine a manufacturer? Obviously I was going off the pattern of the glass before, but now I have no idea.

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Are the stems on yours solid, hollow with a base, or open bottomed? I've seen all three types, so was curious as to which yours had.
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The bottom is definitely closed, and they are quite heavy, so I would guess they are solid glass bases.

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Back again - I'm cleaning out the basement and am hoping to get rid of these roemers. I have 5 of them in perfect condition. My great aunt told me more about them at Christmas. She said she got them from her friend in Germany when she lived there a long time ago. They were her friend's grandparents' - so that would make them tremendously old. I believe you all (the experts) if you say the pattern is from the 50's more than I believe my great aunt's story. I think she is trying to guilt me into keeping them. If someone could give me a price estimate for the set of 5, I'd love to know so I can decide if it's worth the trouble of selling or just donating.

Thanks!

 

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