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Author Topic: Help with this Peill Putzler strange item = footless drinking glass  (Read 1356 times)

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Offline 19glass75

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Just wondered if anyone new what this is, just cant work it out. Candle snuffer maybe? Its hollow at the bottom and is 11.5cm tall

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Offline Max

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Re: Help with this Peill Putzler strange item
« Reply #1 on: September 16, 2010, 05:07:38 AM »
Could be....or maybe it's like one of those Holmegaard neck glasses which you wear on a rope round your neck (ie, a glass not designed to stand on a table)   :huh: :huh:
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Re: Help with this Peill Putzler strange item
« Reply #2 on: September 16, 2010, 06:13:39 AM »
You get the prize, Max! It is the modern version of the stirrup cup, the footless glass. It's unputdownable!

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The pattern name is "Kegel-Ex", probably 70s.

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