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Glass Identification - Post here for all ID requests => Glass => Topic started by: eglass on March 15, 2007, 03:29:27 PM

Title: Glass Tumbler with engraved Crown, Anchor, and Monogram
Post by: eglass on March 15, 2007, 03:29:27 PM

Hi!

I have a piece that I'm wondering about - is this possibly a British Maritime souvenir?

   http://glassgallery.yobunny.org.uk/displayimage.php?pos=-5662
   http://glassgallery.yobunny.org.uk/displayimage.php?pos=-5660
   http://glassgallery.yobunny.org.uk/displayimage.php?pos=-5658
   http://glassgallery.yobunny.org.uk/displayimage.php?pos=-5659     http://glassgallery.yobunny.org.uk/displayimage.php?pos=-5661

Hopefully those come through okay, and thanks so much for looking! :)

Kelli

Title: Re: Glass Tumbler with engraved Crown, Anchor, and Monogram
Post by: Ivo on March 15, 2007, 06:48:31 PM

Strange crown - with a rather large apple and cross. Not Habsburg, not Hungarian, not French, not Russian - maybe it is a fantasy crown.... ?

Title: Re: Glass Tumbler with engraved Crown, Anchor, and Monogram
Post by: Sue C on March 15, 2007, 07:00:57 PM

The ball and cross above the crown has a vaguely religious feel, i'll get back to this  :-\

Title: Re: Glass Tumbler with engraved Crown, Anchor, and Monogram
Post by: Sue C on March 15, 2007, 07:45:37 PM

http://www.scborromeo.org/gallery.htm 

Maybe part of this!!

Click "Christ The King"

And maybe the crown on this

http://www.crownofdavid.com/english/king.htm

Click this link.

Title: Re: Glass Tumbler with engraved Crown, Anchor, and Monogram
Post by: Lustrousstone on March 15, 2007, 07:54:12 PM

Actually have a look at the Crown Jewels www.englishmonarchs.co.uk/crown_jewels.htm (http://www.englishmonarchs.co.uk/crown_jewels.htm)

Title: Re: Glass Tumbler with engraved Crown, Anchor, and Monogram
Post by: eglass on March 16, 2007, 02:23:56 PM

It IS a different looking crown, isn't it? I wish I had some sort of background for you all on this tumbler, but the gal's estate was chockfull of European goodies as well as Early American. That anchor is what put me in mind of the military, and I didn't even consider a religious connection.

Thanks for your input, it gives me some new avenues to check out. :)

Kelli

Title: Re: Glass Tumbler with engraved Crown, Anchor, and Monogram
Post by: pamela on March 16, 2007, 04:50:02 PM

Hi Kelli  :)
I recommend to google 'crown' and 'cruise ship' - because I guess you're right with your guess of a maritime souvenir  ;D

Title: Re: Glass Tumbler with engraved Crown, Anchor, and Monogram
Post by: Sue C on March 16, 2007, 05:55:21 PM

Hi Kelli,  google Sweden royal crown Stockholm, (im such a dunce :-[)

Title: Re: Glass Tumbler with engraved Crown, Anchor, and Monogram
Post by: eglass on March 17, 2007, 04:09:35 AM

ROFLMAO! Yep, souvenir alright, maybe I should hang onto it since it's probably the closest I'll ever come to going on a cruise...

Thanks a million for solving our mystery! :)

Kelli

Title: Re: Glass Tumbler with engraved Crown, Anchor, and Monogram
Post by: pamela on March 17, 2007, 07:48:25 PM

not knowing what or which ROFLMAO is- just greeting SUE - MY  :-X

Title: Re: Glass Tumbler with engraved Crown, Anchor, and Monogram
Post by: Anne on March 17, 2007, 08:06:38 PM

Pamela, I'll transcribe for you: Rolling On the Floor Laughing My Ass (as in bottom not donkey!) Off.  ;)

Title: Re: Glass Tumbler with engraved Crown, Anchor, and Monogram
Post by: pamela on March 17, 2007, 08:28:24 PM

thank you Anne - at least it is solved at this end  ;D

Title: Re: Glass Tumbler with engraved Crown, Anchor, and Monogram
Post by: catshome on March 18, 2007, 04:59:13 PM

Hi Kelli,

I was hoping this thread would take me further with my research on my own tumbler.  You seem to have resolved yours, but I tried the google suggestion and didn't find the answer.  Would you be able to let me have a link to what you found for yours?

Mine appears to be the same basic tumbler (is yours 3.75" high by about 2.75" dia at the top?) but has what appears to be a church, and the words "Maria Bell".  It is also Ruby flashed (I think that's the term for it).  It was the orb on top of the crown on yours that caught my attention.  Maybe the same maker made souvenirs for many places.  I haven't been able to work out if Maria Bell is the name of the church in the picture.

http://glassgallery.yobunny.org.uk/albums/userpics/10086/smallerDSCN0967.jpg

Detail of design :
http://glassgallery.yobunny.org.uk/albums/userpics/10086/smallerDSCN0971.jpg

Detail of decorative panels on either side of main design :
http://glassgallery.yobunny.org.uk/albums/userpics/10086/smallerDSCN0969.jpg

Thank you
Cat

Title: Re: Glass Tumbler with engraved Crown, Anchor, and Monogram
Post by: pamela on March 18, 2007, 06:44:52 PM

http://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bell_%28Hunsr%C3%BCck%29

Cat, this sounds familiar to me with 'Maria Bell'
but I really do not know, it's just intuition  :-X

Title: Re: Glass Tumbler with engraved Crown, Anchor, and Monogram
Post by: eglass on March 19, 2007, 04:59:45 PM

Cat, your tumbler does have the same basic shape, but the workmanship looks so much finer than that on mine...

I didn't pursue maker any further once I saw that this was probably a highball tumbler from a cruise line - they make them cheaply I would imagine since a lot of them end up like mine must have, smuggled into someone's luggage and taken away as a souvenir.

Yours is gorgous! Looks like a cathedral?

Title: Re: Glass Tumbler with engraved Crown, Anchor, and Monogram
Post by: eglass on March 19, 2007, 05:15:34 PM

I wonder if tumblers are made like yours as 'souvenirs' from Catholic confirmation or first communion ceremonies, or even made for funerals of longtime congregatation members in certain areas? Maybe even a Vatican souvenir, with the name added at the time of purchase...

Title: Re: Glass Tumbler with engraved Crown, Anchor, and Monogram
Post by: Connie on March 19, 2007, 08:06:25 PM

The building on Cat's glass looks like a Russian Orthodox Church to me bacause of the onio shaped domes.

Title: Re: Glass Tumbler with engraved Crown, Anchor, and Monogram
Post by: Pat on March 19, 2007, 09:20:52 PM

Beat me to it Connie. I think it looks like a Russian Orthodox also.