When I bought this I assumed it was just another whiskey glass, and didn't give a second thought until washing it sometime later, and realized that the style and cutting may indicate that it's possibly a tumbler, and older than first thought. My only book on tumblers is John A. Broooks slim booklet, in which he shows one or two pics. of pieces cut with these fine vertical flutes, mitre cut diamonds and quite deeply cut mitred bands around the outside. The author mentions flat/ground/polished bases - as this one has -(on which can be seen considerable wear). Cutting is unsymetrical - in particular the mitred bands, which seem to wander off the straight and narrow, and the flutes are a little like organ pipes in places - a guarantee of a hand made piece I guess, and seems to have been loved enough by someone to have warranted the polishing out of a small chip on the rim. Height is 4.25" - 10.7 cms. I'm not suggesting that this example is as old as first third of C19 - but I might go with c. 1850 - 1880 perhaps - and would welcome anyone else's thoughts. Thanks for looking
Ref. 'Glass Tumblers 1700 - 1900' .....John A. Brooks. 1987.
Topic: possible mid C19 cut tumbler. (Read 585 times)
