Topic: cocktail glass set with uv reactive base - id or date please.

[Littleblackhen]

I picked up this set of glasses for £1, I am pleased with my bargain

They have a faceted or optic effect towards the base, and the bases glow nicely under ultra violet light.

I have called these cocktail glasses, but actually they seem slightly too small for that, so maybe they were sherry glasses or something else?

I am guessing at 1930's for their date unless anyone wishes to correct me?

[Lustrousstone]

Those are very common in the UK; there are also little matching shallow dessert dishes (I have both!). I also have a set of champagne saucers/stemmed dessert dishes with similar but not identical ribbing on the irridised saucers but with the same unusual shade of green uranium stems. I think they might be from the same manufacturer - that shade of green is unusual and quite distinct. The saucers I know date from the late 1940s because they were a wedding present for my friend's Mum. The main difference is that the sherries and matching dishes have "safety rims"; the saucers do not. I would speculate that the sherries are perhaps 1950s; they also appear in non uranium.

This could all be tosh, of course! 

[Littleblackhen]

Thanks for the id

It is a shame they are common, I hadn't seen any before  :cry:

These will be going into my antiques unit this afternoon so it is good to have a reasonable idea of what to write on the label

[Lustrousstone]

Funnily enough, on Saturday we picked up a set of teeny schnapps/shot type glasses to match. They're just 5 cm tall. They help to confirm my feeling that these are Continental Europe rather than British

[dirk.]

just to back up your continental feeling...
i´ve got a single one with uranium and a pair
of clear ones.

[Lustrousstone]

On further reflection, there was also a set in the sort of turquoisey blue that seems to be found in continental rather than English glasses, which we didn't buy

[dirk.]

something interesting on musterbuch.de, markhbeinn catalogue 1932:

http://www.glas-musterbuch.de/Markhbeinn-1932.19+B6YmFja1BJRD0xOSZwcm9kdWN0SUQ9Njg1JnBpZF9wcm9kdWN0PTE5JmRldGFpbD0_.0.html

[Lustrousstone]

Possibly an earlier version. I think the catalogue says pink or blue glass with a black foot. Mine are machine made, they're identical