Topic: 17th century glass - what is a flat glass to keep a mustache dry?

[flying free]

I have been researching a piece of glass and came across a piece written in 1868 about the Rosenborg Castle collection as whole and where, under the Glass collection section, the author refers to a piece in the collection as 'the flat glass, intended to cut through the mustache, which must not be moistened;'

Does anyone know what this 'flat glass' might look like please?


I have had a number of moustache cups made in the late 19th early 20th century but they were porcelain or china and some two hundred years later

thanks
m

[flying free]

or have I misunderstood what 'the flat glass...' means and glass refers to the material used rather than the receptacle?
m

[keith]

Looked through my books and did a bit of googling all I can find is the old term for window glass, got me stumped 

[flying free]

I'm wondering if perhaps it's a comb? but wouldn't that be made of bone?
or is it a flat plate of some sort to hold under a moustache to keep it out the way when drinking? But that wouldn't work would it, as it would be difficult to tip the glass up to drink.  hmmm. curious.
or is it a mirror? used so it's possible to cut ones moustache - but then why would it mention 'which must not be moistened'?
m

[Lustrousstone]

I found this

Eight gold goblets, partly ornamented with the monogram of Frederik IV, partly engraved ornaments and are finished in an
exceedingly beautiful manner: notice particularly two shallow goblets {mustache's goblets), that are distinguishable from the extraordinary
taste and delicacy of their ornamentation.

in https://archive.org/details/chronologicalcol00anderich

Perhaps its a translation error and they are glasses for drinking from without wetting your moustache

[flying free]

oooh thank you so much.  I was hoping they were drinking glasses.    But not that they were goblets - does goblet imply it has a stem do you think or does it just imply a drinking vessel?  And also pleased that the script refers to 'two...' as that might be the two items I'm looking at.
Thanks again.  Really appreciated.

m

[flying free]

ok, I don't think it refers to the two pieces I'm looking at as they are glass and that passage appears to be referring to gold goblets.  But I am still curious as to what shape these goblets might take.

m

[flying free]

this is the Urn room? it appears to have a number of gold pieces - I wonder if this could be the gold goblets referred to maybe?
long shot I know
https://losrodriguezlife.files.wordpress.com/2013/06/urn-room.jpg

or perhaps 'Eight gold goblets monogrammed ..' refers to gilded glass goblets
m

[flying free]

https://www.flickr.com/photos/mbell1975/5210024402

just adding this photo as a reference, just in case the gold goblets are those in this cabinet - not entirely sure if anything in there might constitute a 'mustache's goblets', but you never know what might turn up.

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[David E]

'the flat glass, intended to cut through the mustache, which must not be moistened;'

Just a thought - as it's flat glass, could it be a piece of glass with a sharpened edge soas to allow the trimming/cutting of a moustache?