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Title: Old Toasting Glasses?
Post by: Dave247 on March 09, 2007, 12:01:28 PM

Hi  GMB
This is my first post so please be gentle with me.  I recently brought these glasses, they stand about 6 inches tall, and they have obviously been hand made as each one is a slightly different size. The pontil has been cut off & is still quite sharp on one of them. The glass contains lots of tiny bubbles & a few slag chips. The bowls are very shallow like a toasting or deceptive glass.  So my question is are the Georgian or are they made last week in China & on sale in the Pier.
Dave
http://glassgallery.yobunny.org.uk/displayimage.php?pos=-5519
http://glassgallery.yobunny.org.uk/displayimage.php?pos=-5521
http://glassgallery.yobunny.org.uk/displayimage.php?pos=-5520
http://glassgallery.yobunny.org.uk/displayimage.php?pos=-5517

Title: Re: Old Toasting Glasses?
Post by: Andy on March 09, 2007, 12:17:01 PM

Hi Dave,
Interesting ones for your first post, theyre very nice, and have confused me ???
If i were to offer my opinion, i would think they are 20th Century repros, the
patterns look a bit 'modern' but my opinion is no guarantee ;)
Look forward  to seeing more of those 'charity shop' bargains you always beat me to >:(

Cheers,
Andy

Title: Re: Old Toasting Glasses?
Post by: Frank on March 09, 2007, 03:09:40 PM

Sunlight makes it hard to see these properly, pictures with more frontal light would help.

Title: Re: Old Toasting Glasses?
Post by: Ivo on March 09, 2007, 03:11:13 PM

Glasses with a separately made foot (you can tell from the blob at the bottom of the stem) are usually made around the end of the 19th/ beginning of the 20th century.  Earlier glasses would probably be manufactured in three pieces (foot/ stem/ bowl) stuck together. Later glass would be made by developing the foot from the stem in a clapper which is infinitely more efficient. So I would place your glasses somewhere around 1900, with a few dozen years either side.

Title: Re: Old Toasting Glasses?
Post by: Dave247 on March 09, 2007, 04:59:55 PM

I am putting some more photos up that might help. They are drawn trumpet bowls with an applied foot. the reason i think there is a bit of age to them is because of the small bowl. its only about the size of a sherry glass.
http://glassgallery.yobunny.org.uk/displayimage.php?pos=-5535
http://glassgallery.yobunny.org.uk/displayimage.php?pos=-5534
http://glassgallery.yobunny.org.uk/displayimage.php?pos=-5531
http://glassgallery.yobunny.org.uk/displayimage.php?pos=-5533
http://glassgallery.yobunny.org.uk/displayimage.php?pos=-5532

Title: Re: Old Toasting Glasses?
Post by: Andy on March 11, 2007, 01:26:43 AM

Hi Dave,
i like this photo,
http://glassgallery.yobunny.org.uk/displayimage.php?pos=-5531
shows the pattern well,
Im thinking now maybe Art Deco period 1930s :)

Andy