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Title: Strange whisky tumbler
Post by: Lustrousstone on April 05, 2007, 06:53:30 PM: It's very heavy and very thick (4mm at the top). The base is a rounded indent with ground edges and the chipping often associated with such grinding. 8.5 cm tall and 7.5 cm top diameter. Plenty of wear on base and top edge, but very little damage. Has anyone any idea how old it might be please?
See top (http://i20.photobucket.com/albums/b217/lustrousstone/IMG_1087.jpg) , base (http://i20.photobucket.com/albums/b217/lustrousstone/IMG_1086.jpg) and side (http://i20.photobucket.com/albums/b217/lustrousstone/IMG_1084.jpg)
Title: Re: Strange whisky tumbler
Post by: Frank on June 25, 2007, 12:57:38 PM: Too small for a whisky tumbler, more like a shot-glass. Could have been made locally for Mediterranean tourist bars, or not.
Title: Re: Strange whisky tumbler
Post by: Ivo on June 25, 2007, 01:14:03 PM: I have a set of same shape same size same finish glasses with a blue thread around the edge and found out they were English 19th century. Now of course I cannot find the reference again - but they're defo not for the "get peed in Magaluf" trade.
Title: Re: Strange whisky tumbler
Post by: Lustrousstone on June 25, 2007, 02:05:05 PM: Too big for a shot glass and buckets of wear where the poor thing has been stored both on its top and its bottom for years. If it was in normal thicknes glass you would say it was definitely a whisky tumbler. It's crudely made to a high standard, if that makes sense. Reminds me of some of the so-called illusion glasses
Title: Re: Strange whisky tumbler
Post by: Lustrousstone on November 09, 2009, 01:16:55 PM: Thought this could do with reviving ;)
Title: Re: Strange whisky tumbler
Post by: Ming on November 10, 2009, 09:16:53 PM: Hi Christine

I am one of this funny tumbler collector and even have a book on tumbler. I think your tumbler is not old at all. It does not have the look of a old tumbler. Much look like a modern whisky shot glass. Just because the base is worn does not make it old. A few year moving around on the table does shown.
Title: Re: Strange whisky tumbler
Post by: Lustrousstone on November 11, 2009, 12:34:11 PM: I disagree. It's not modern; it's completely hand made and I would doubt it was made in either the 20th or the 21st century. I don't know much about glasses but I do know a bit about glass
Title: Re: Strange whisky tumbler
Post by: Pinkspoons on November 11, 2009, 01:23:44 PM: There were similar wares produced in Denmark from around 1850 onwards. I'm not saying it's Danish by any stretch, but because Denmark had no real tradition of glass design at this time they plundered heavily from elsewhere and so their output is strongly indicative of what was popular in other countries around the same time, often with very little modification.
Title: Re: Strange whisky tumbler
Post by: Lustrousstone on November 17, 2009, 07:33:30 AM: At the glass fair on Sunday, one of the stalls of old glasses had several different tumblers in just this form with the ground base rim and deep base indent. They were slightly better made, slightly larger and finer, and had less of a deceptive glass appearance. They were described as German 1810 and 1850. On that basis, I am happy to assign mine to the first half of the 19th C and probably Continental Europe.