Topic: Squat, bulbous tankard

[glassobsessed]

Thanks Ivo.

Günther Lambert is a retailer.

John

[Lustrousstone]

I've just got mine out. It doesn't have a pontil mark, but it does contain several bits of ash and a fair few bubbles, and has a high manganese content (an intense yellow/green glow under UV). The handle is also applied so that the bottom is just lower than the base. I don't think it's 1980s quality. It also holds a pint with room for a head, so I reckon made for the UK market and not too recently.

[glassobsessed]

Snap with the ash and bubbles, snap with the glow (that surprised me) and snap with the handle.

No appreciable age to mine in terms of wear, holds half a litre with room for head.....

I keep thinking Habitat (another retailer).

John

[Lustrousstone]

No, the quality's just not there. I saw another one today.  I'm not surprised there's no wear. You wouldn't want to use it; the balance is all wrong. They've probably just been sitting in a cupboard.

[chopin-liszt]

I'd been thinking it was more of a half-pint thing, which might be nice to use, but if it's a pint - it's going to be far too heavy and clumsy.

[glassobsessed]

Found two more of these tankards today, both had minimal wear, they looked recently made to me too.

I think Ivo has them pegged.

John

[Lustrousstone]

They wouldn't pass modern QC standards; greying takes more than 25 or so years; manganese is not a modern decoloriser... I'm not wanting mine to be old; I don't care. Wear is irrelevant. I'm sorry but I can't see anything modern about these.

[glassobsessed]

A seller at a bootsale yesterday had four of these tankards, I asked where she got them from and she said "I bought them twenty years ago in Habitat".

John

[Ivo]

the model is called "Marco" in the list of Bistro glasses from the Lambert catalogue 1991; it is for beer, holds 1/2 liter and cost 18,50 DM each. (=Euros 9,25)

[Lustrousstone]

All I can say then is that both companies lowered their design (and usability) and quality standards to rock bottom 20 years ago.