Topic: Puzzle time, again !

[chopin-liszt]

I've just been reading this thread - where there is a good clear image of diamond point engraving in the inscription on the goblet-thingy in question.

http://www.glassmessages.com/index.php/topic,57224.0/topicseen.html

That is exactly the sort of engraving the "Brierley" was. It was hand done, with a diamond point pen.

(That's why I spent so long, studying it and swithering. It was not a "normal" mark to find on glass at all.)

[keith]

Very strange for a whole set to be 'handwritten' I  presume it was a special set made for someone, maybe ?

[chopin-liszt]

Nothing special, just a very boring and ordinary sort of cut, perhaps a few diamond shapes around it, and a couple of upwards cuts to give a little contrast and "finish" it. Nothing complex or particularly big. Completely unused, they all had their labels as well as the script on the base.

Would the labels hold a clue to the age? I didn't have a camera with me, sadly.

Perhaps is was the sherry glasses from a much larger suite, and it was just these that didn't get used?

(Michael likes his port in a wine glass size of glass, and volume. He can't be bothered with teeny tiny glasses that only hold enough for your teetotal maiden aunt's christmas "binge".)

[keith]

Wouldn't have thought they'd  have a bog standard set hand engraved unless it was a special order but as you said nothing special about them so ??