Topic: Here's mud in your eye! A wine glass...

[Tigerchips]

Hi, is this Pirelli glass?

[Frank]

Don't recognise that shape as Pirelli and the transfer looks a bit modern.... my labelled one has a drunk against a lamp-post.

There are a lot of people making these now though and at least one claims to have invented it.

[Tigerchips]

Drunk against a lamp post, that scene is usually made from brass.

Okay, who claims to have invented it?

[Frank]

Can't remember, I think it was on the site of a Scottish lampworker. An inventor without a patent is someone who has had an idea and thinks that they have never come across it before.

Reminds me when I published 'Getting Off in London', I got inundated with claims that I had stolen their idea. While researching it an old codger asked me what I was doing, he told me that he had bought and used similar booklet around the time of WW2. The venture lost so much money that I should have got the other 'inventors' to cough up