Topic: Georgian? wheel etched and diamond inscribed marriage glass help please

[brucebanner]

After a post yesterday i'm wondering if this piece of glass is authentic, it has an inscription scratched onto the surface, I cant make out the first word but the rest reads " Charlotte Wiggett were married at Studley 1826", it has wear to the base and a rough pontil, grey in colour with a good ring, the whole glass is uneven and misshaped, i think it's an ale glass of some sort at a guess?.

It's 4 3/4 inches in height, 3 6/8th inches across the rim and 2 3/4 inches across the base.

[Paul S.]

I think you're o.k. with this one  -  nice glass

Probably a standard tumbler with some wheel engraving that has the addition of diamond point engraving commemorating that event - it adds a great deal to the interest of this piece.
My opinion is that your glass pre-dates the engraving - perhaps by as much as 25 - 35 years earlier.

Let's see what others think.

[SantaR]

Hi there

I'm coming to the end of my subscription on Ancestry as I can't go any further with my family, so just for fun, I thought I'd look up your Charlotte.  The marriage date is a couple of months out but as there is no source for it and she is the only Charlotte marrying a Joseph in Studley, Oxon, then she's the one. Looks like her descendants live in California.

[brucebanner]

You could not make this up whats the odds?, i picked this glass up from an antique shop in Evesham a while ago, the shop owner said it was a local glass someone had sold him from their family with a few other antiques.