Topic: are they antique???

[pamela]

Sorry I cannot contribute in this case BUT this shot is one for Calendar 2009! JMHO  :angel:

[pamela]

MEANT rimorr.jpg! Sorry for that, Anne will hopefully upload that one again!
Breathless P

[robbo]

I could be wrong but I'm pretty sure these are much more recent. They look like glasses from the Dartington "Sharon" service, FT115 designed by Frank Thrower c. 1970 and still in production. See page 61 of "Frank Thrower & Dartington Glass" by Eve Thrower & Mark Hill.

http://www.dartington.co.uk/acatalog/Sharon-Claret.html

robbo

[Lustrousstone]

By Jove, I think you're right

[tipperrary]

well done robbo.....i been hanging onto these for 5 years wondering what they were.....they lack the outward curvature of a proper trumpet glass circa 18thC

[dirk.]

crossing centuries... and countries... 
thanks, robbo!

[robbo]

I've got one in my kitchen cupboard. (OK there's a lot of other glasses there too, it's heaving  )
This discussion has been really interesting because the design of several of Dartington's stemware services draw on earlier English glasses.
You've only got to look at the "Victoria" service:

http://vads.ahds.ac.uk/diad/bres/pub/COID/234/076.jpg

which is a dead ringer for some of the better proportioned English C19th rummers.

The 1971 Dartington catalogue said Sharon was "really quite a sparkler" 
One to watch out for too is the variant with cut flutes on the stem and lower bowl.

Robbo

[tipperrary]

yes..................

they are an enigma as none of my 6 are precisely identical....and they have the most beautiful ping.......

[Lustrousstone]

Well they were handmade. Sharon only came in goblet, claret and sherry sizes originally. Frank's catalogue description of them was "stemming the tears"