Topic: Tankard - A Present From Blackpool

[neilh]

Has anyone seen something like this before? It comes from a collector in the northwest.

In some ways it looks like a Dartington tankard but in other respects it appears to be Victorian. It has some age, and a density value typical of c1880 for the region, yet I see no sign of this general shape in 19th century catalogues.

So far as I know, a one off.

[NevB]

Could it be continental? A long shot but there are similar ones in the Stolzle catalogue. I think some souvenir pieces were also made in Belgium and France.

https://www.glas-musterbuch.de/Stoelzle-1878.179+B6YmFja1BJRD0xNzkmcHJvZHVjdElEPTc1NDkmcGlkX3Byb2R1Y3Q9MTc5JmRldGFpbD0_.0.html

[Lustrousstone]

A moulded souvenir piece from Blackpool is more likely to be English IMO, considering the cost of moulds. If it was enamelled or engraved that might be different

[Ekimp]

With a moulded souvenir glass like this, wouldn’t they make a mould of the main item but with an interchangeable piece for the shield? So they could use the same expensive main mould but then make a relatively inexpensive shield insert for Blackpool….and another one for Bognor Regis and wherever.

[Ekimp]

The shields on the Inwald souvenir glasses in this pressglas korrespondenz are said to be interchangeable (see the second half of the red text on page 2):

https://pressglas-korrespondenz.de/aktuelles/pdf/pk-2015-1w-kuban-inwald-becher-sisi-1898.pdf

There is also a picture of a catalogue page of souvenir type glasses and two have “zum anderken” in the shield - translates as “for souvenirs”, maybe that means you could ask for your own text.