despite your comments about colour, I don't think this is early i.e. not prior to about 1860 - 70............earlier tumblers tended to be very wide for their height. You don't comment as to whether the fluting is cut or moulded - and I can't really see if hidden up under the foot there is a broken pontil or not, although must admit the shape/design of the foot cavity seems a little unusual.............this might be from a variety of sources within Europe. Fluting of some description, on the lower half of the glass, has been one of the most common forms of decoration on tumblers - cut or moulded, and on later C19 examples that have been hand blown they often have most of the base taken up with a shallow ground/polished depression where the pontil scar has been removed. Dimensions of the glass can be helpful when trying to date pieces - also, is this soda glass, or does it ring well to indicate lead glass?
Being of a utilitarian nature, tumblers can be found often with inclusions of small stones or dirt.
Later Victorian glasses were made in a greater range of sizes.............if you can get your hands on a copy of Silber & Fleming, you'll see the very wide range of tumbler sizes, many showing cut or moulded fluting similar to your one.
If you don't have a snapped pontil under the base, then this may well be a machine moulded example.
But they are great things to collect - don't take up much space - full of history - and can be used.
Topic: tumbler age (Read 669 times)
