Topic: Ruby flash spa town?

[bat20]

Hi all,I found this piece over the weekend,I have seen similar glass in antique shops and looking online it's described as spa town glass,so a few questions please,was this type of glass a souvenir from a visit to a spa?,is the engraving done free hand?are they meant as decorative pieces and can they be dated more precisely than mid 19 century....and anything else you can think of lol,thanks very much..

[bat20]

There's something else I forgot to mention,did everyone wear a Mexican sombrero around 1850?

[gaspy1]

Did you realise the German text translates as ' Industrial Exhibition Building'. Possibly not a spa? (and not a sombrero in sight!)

[bat20]

There are three buildings and none of them look like a spa do they!,the industrial revolution took place between 17 something and 1840,there are 6 or 7 Mexicans mooching about in front of the buildings.

[MatW]

Hi, the place is Munich, the church shown is " Frauenkirche". The Industrial Exhibition Building is today the Museum of Antiquities. The third building is the Ministry of War.
Mat

[bat20]

Thanks Matt,I've just looked them up ,very interesting,the industrial exhibition building was finished in 1854 and held the first German industrial exhibition,I wonder if the glass was first sold there.

[Ivo]

For dating this it would be better to find out when the building changed its function. This is a typical souvenir piece sold in Munchen at the time before it became a museum - I guess the 1880s 1900s

[bat20]

Thanks Ivo,I've seen a similar glass on the Dr Fischer site dated 1840 with an engraved building on it,for future reference can I ask you your method of dating and do you know how they e ngraved the glass,many thanks.

[Lustrousstone]

Your glass can't be older than 1854 because of the date of the building...

[bat20]

That's a given Christine,I'm just wondering how Ivo came to his dates.