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Offline SNJ

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Function of tiny cranberry cup?
« on: June 16, 2018, 12:31:12 PM »
The shape might be right for a custard cup but I'm guessing that the size probably isn't; it's just 35mm tall.  So perhaps a glass for a liqueur or similar? It's one of a set of six.

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Re: Function of tiny cranberry cup?
« Reply #1 on: June 16, 2018, 04:07:41 PM »
I don't know anything about this type of glass, but just wondered if you can actually put your finger through in order to use it as a cup.  If not, it might be a child's set, or a travelling sales rep's trade samples?
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Re: Function of tiny cranberry cup?
« Reply #2 on: June 16, 2018, 04:13:12 PM »
The gap in the handle is wide enough gap to join thumb and fingertip with middle finger support under the lower handle terminal so I could use it as a drinking vessel. It wouldn't give a particularly generous portion though!

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Re: Function of tiny cranberry cup?
« Reply #3 on: June 16, 2018, 08:12:22 PM »
Kids Dolls house or the like set?
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Re: Function of tiny cranberry cup?
« Reply #4 on: June 17, 2018, 05:36:46 AM »
In Sweden, in slightly older times, ppl used to have "punsch" (a horribly sweet, arrack-flavoured liqueur) served hot with yellow pea soup, a speciality for Thursdays.
The punsch could also be served iced, without the pea soup.

It was often served in cups like that, style and size match.

In older export catalogues from Orrefors they are called "custards"

Here is a picture from the export cat from Orrefors-Sandvik 1921 (downloadable from http://bergdala-glastekniska-museum.se/nedladdningar.html along w lots od other Swe catalogues)

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Re: Function of tiny cranberry cup?
« Reply #5 on: June 17, 2018, 03:20:19 PM »
I have two not vwery good pics of the 4 "punsch" cups we have in the museum.
(at special request, I can take them out of their display cases)

I realise the measauring stick is partly misleading, because ot the perspective, but it should be clear-ish that they are of the same general size as the OP's cups.


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Re: Function of tiny cranberry cup?
« Reply #6 on: June 17, 2018, 04:19:46 PM »
Possibly a Schnapps or a liqueur glass. I've seen this with a decanter http://lustrousstone.co.uk/cpg/displayimage.php?pid=31 and sometimes you see them with glass barrels and hanging on the wooden frame holding the barrel

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Re: Function of tiny cranberry cup?
« Reply #7 on: June 17, 2018, 04:36:01 PM »
and... while I am here: what, exactly, is the "custard" part of the Swe export "custards", please?

Most dictionaries insist at giving me "thick, egg based, vanilla-flavoured sauce" as an explanation of custard. But that would not be drinkable from those small cups?

Even if we were talking of "frozen custard" the cups would be on the small side, IMO.

-  there are other models called custards in old Swe catalogues. Howver: all hold a very small amount.
Some custards have a foot - but are still very small.   

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Re: Function of tiny cranberry cup?
« Reply #8 on: June 17, 2018, 04:38:16 PM »
Egg nog?

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Re: Function of tiny cranberry cup?
« Reply #9 on: June 17, 2018, 05:02:11 PM »
Good 'nuf, I guess... :-D

...is that so very loved in the UK that it meriths its own glass type...?

(Sometimes, in the papers accompanying the export catalogues, there are ...er... surprising words and sentences. OTOH: cultural differences are not only geographical, can also be time-related.  We may never know why a "custard")

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