Author Topic: Old Toasting Glasses? (Read 1734 times)

Dave247 · « **on:** March 09, 2007, 12:01:28 PM »

Hi GMB
This is my first post so please be gentle with me. I recently brought these glasses, they stand about 6 inches tall, and they have obviously been hand made as each one is a slightly different size. The pontil has been cut off & is still quite sharp on one of them. The glass contains lots of tiny bubbles & a few slag chips. The bowls are very shallow like a toasting or deceptive glass. So my question is are the Georgian or are they made last week in China & on sale in the Pier.
Dave
http://glassgallery.yobunny.org.uk/displayimage.php?pos=-5519
http://glassgallery.yobunny.org.uk/displayimage.php?pos=-5521
http://glassgallery.yobunny.org.uk/displayimage.php?pos=-5520
http://glassgallery.yobunny.org.uk/displayimage.php?pos=-5517

Andy · « **Reply #1 on:** March 09, 2007, 12:17:01 PM »

Hi Dave,
Interesting ones for your first post, theyre very nice, and have confused me

If i were to offer my opinion, i would think they are 20th Century repros, the
patterns look a bit 'modern' but my opinion is no guarantee

Look forward to seeing more of those 'charity shop' bargains you always beat me to

Cheers,
Andy

Frank · « **Reply #2 on:** March 09, 2007, 03:09:40 PM »

Sunlight makes it hard to see these properly, pictures with more frontal light would help.

Ivo · « **Reply #3 on:** March 09, 2007, 03:11:13 PM »

Glasses with a separately made foot (you can tell from the blob at the bottom of the stem) are usually made around the end of the 19th/ beginning of the 20th century. Earlier glasses would probably be manufactured in three pieces (foot/ stem/ bowl) stuck together. Later glass would be made by developing the foot from the stem in a clapper which is infinitely more efficient. So I would place your glasses somewhere around 1900, with a few dozen years either side.

Dave247 · « **Reply #4 on:** March 09, 2007, 04:59:55 PM »

I am putting some more photos up that might help. They are drawn trumpet bowls with an applied foot. the reason i think there is a bit of age to them is because of the small bowl. its only about the size of a sherry glass.
http://glassgallery.yobunny.org.uk/displayimage.php?pos=-5535
http://glassgallery.yobunny.org.uk/displayimage.php?pos=-5534
http://glassgallery.yobunny.org.uk/displayimage.php?pos=-5531
http://glassgallery.yobunny.org.uk/displayimage.php?pos=-5533
http://glassgallery.yobunny.org.uk/displayimage.php?pos=-5532

Andy · « **Reply #5 on:** March 11, 2007, 01:26:43 AM »

Hi Dave,
i like this photo,
http://glassgallery.yobunny.org.uk/displayimage.php?pos=-5531
shows the pattern well,
Im thinking now maybe Art Deco period 1930s

Andy

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