Topic: victorian?

[Gwion James]

These are very humble, but nice, and I'd be interested to know what they are, where/when from etc. I've see this sort of shape described as a Rummer, but these are only 2.5 inches high. What might they have been for? Gwion

[Gwion James]

Picture would help:

http://glassgallery.yobunny.org.uk/displayimage.php?pos=-2997

[Pinkspoons]

No idea of period/maker, but I think these are cordial glasses, for drinking schnapps from.

[Anne]

They are very small so whatever went in them would be potent I think.  My son has some of this small size in his collection as well... not very old really - within the last 50-60 years I think. Place: Continental Europe, they are a traditional design of Germany, France and the Netherlands I think.

[Pinkspoons]

Aren't all of those glasses Zwiesel-Schott, Anne?

I've seen a few sets in original boxes, so whenever I see them I always associate them wityh Z-S, but have no idea if it was a generic free-for-all design.

[Ivo]

Could be Zwiesel or (more likely) Oberglas Austria; the traditional shape is a rummer which is used for rhine wine, the small version is used for Obstler/ Gentiane or Kirschwasser. Not very old, think sixties, perhaps later.

[Anne]

Nic, some of my sons are marked France or Made in France, others have no makers' marks on at all, so they're a mixed bag.

[Gwion James]

thanks everyone - schnapps feels right. nice range your son has anne. excuse me not recognising really obvious things. i guess if a design is 'traditional' then dating is down to detail - these are worn and nicely irregular in the form and 'gilding' - but yeh i can imagine them being made pretty recently on the continent - i suppose i was thinking of them as british when i thought victorian-looking. nice thing about glass how even very modest things can have character.

[Anne]

Gwion, they are still made I believe. I see some websites still selling new sets of these so there must be a current market - perhaps for tourists visiting wineries, etc.?.

My son loves them as he finds them almost impossible to knock over so no risk of the contents being wasted!  :lol: Where I live they seem quite easy to find in charity shops and are not too expensive (both of which are especially important when you're a teenager/student as he was when he started collecting them. When he finally leaves home and takes them with him I am going to have so much more glass cupboard space!)  :lol:

I have seen earlier patterns which are much fancier than these - they include prunts on the stem and so on - so they have been made over a long period of time in one way or another.  

[Gwion James]

Yeh, these were a quid for the four in a junk shop. Thanks for chapter and verse Ivo.