Topic: Victorian goblet silver sixpence 1872 help please.

[brucebanner]

Can anyone help me with this please, it appears well made and has an 1871 sixpence in the stem, i think it's genuine and of it's date, i'm wondering if it's an exhibition piece and who made it?

It measures 8 inches in height, 4 6/8th inches across the rim and 4 inches across the base.

[kimo]

My guess is that it may more likely be a wedding gift to a couple with the last names beginning with F and M who were married in 1872, or possibly a gift to someone to commemorate some other life event in that year.

[Paul S.]

a wonderful piece, and great wheel engraving - my opinion as well would be not an exhibition item, but perhaps more likely a marriage glass of some sort.        Must have meant something really special to the folk concerned.           The date script would look to be right for that period, but very unlikely you'll find out any specifics re maker or origin, although probably British in view of the type of coin.

The only thing of certainty that can be said of these coin glasses is that the date of the coin provides a provenance of the earliest possible date of manufacture of the glass  .....   but not impossible I suppose that some fraudster might try knocking out a William III glass with a period coin in the knop.
Apparently such glasses have been made since the C17  -  although it's thought that the alleged Roman examples may have had the coins inserted at a later date.

very envious here 
 

[brucebanner]

Thanks for your comments guys.