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victorian?

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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.  8)

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

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