Topic: Glass jockey boots - 1894 Epsom Derby commemoratives?

[agincourt17]

I’ve come across several of these moulded glass posy vases (about 8cm high) in the form of a jockey’s boot and have so far seen examples in clear, black, really deep amethyst, and transparent blue, but none have identifying marks.

(Permission for the re-use of the image of the clear boot by dalimayne, and the blue boots by simmatt).

I’m led to believe that they were made to commemorate Ladas winning the Epsom Derby on 6 June 1894, but can so far find no firm evidence to substantiate the claim.

Does anyone have any idea who might have made them, please?

Fred.

[Simba]

There was another one like these on Ebay earlier last year the seller said

 'The black impressed riding boot commemorates Ladas winning the 1894 Epsom Derby. Impressed on the boot is the following: Lord Rosebery, Ladas, J Watts Jockey, M Dawson Trainer. The boot measures approx 3" (8cm) high 33/4" (9.5cm) long

[Lustrousstone]

(tut, tut children  no board search)

Those are not Ladas boots, see here http://www.glassmessages.com/index.php/topic,43186.0.html

[agincourt17]

Thank you, Angela and Christine.

I stand suitably chastised, Christine, although I had searched on ‘glass boot / boots” and come up with nothing (not even my own post on another boot with a possible Greener attribution).

I’m not sure if the Ladas boots (with the wording) are known in colours other than black), but the Ladas boots and the boots that I showed are so similar in other details that they must surely be from the same manufacturer. Presumably, once the novelty of the 1894 Epsom Derby commemorative connection ceased to be the main selling point, it would have made economic sense to erase the wording from the mould and simply continue producing the jockey boots as a novelty in their own right.

Fred.