Topic: Vintage glass rummer? palm and fir tree house etched help please

[brucebanner]

Hello there, this is a rather strange glass. it looks like a Georgian rummer, it very clear glass with little wear to the base a rough pontil with a wheel engraved scene of a house with a letter F on the top and and two trees either side.

It's thin glass and light weight.

It's 4 3/4 inches in height, 3 1/4 inches across the rim and 3 inches across the base.

I thinking it might be Victorian but that's just a guess.

Any help welcome regards Chris.

[Frank]

The F is probably two pennants or banners and building looks Far Eastern. Cutting seems a bit crude too.

[brucebanner]

There is another identical glass, it must have been part of a set, i just don't get a palm and fir it must mean something.

[Frank]

Fir for immortality, Palm for peace.

[brucebanner]

What do you think for an age Frank, second world war ?.

[Frank]

No idea really, possibly older. Cancel that on closer look, I think it is partly sandblasted so likely more modern.

[brucebanner]

Did the Victorians use sand blasting ?, i have seen lots of blasted glass, or at least i think that's what causes it?, normally mass produced Badon Powell type glass commemorative pieces and the like?

[Frank]

Yes they did, from c1870, but did not get to be used (assumption) for this type of work until relatively modern times c. 1970 on.

It differs from wheel in that magnified you can see impact craters.

[brucebanner]

Thanks for your help and the extra info.

[Paul S.]

could be my eyesight going, but have to say that I'm not seeing any sandblasting  - which shows itself, usually, by a very grainy effect.
To me this looks entirely produced by the wheel - but quite crudely done - apart from the two tiny polished lights (?) hanging from the building.