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Title: cocktail glass set with uv reactive base - id or date please.
Post by: Littleblackhen on September 30, 2008, 10:28:19 PM

I picked up this set of glasses for £1, I am pleased with my bargain :)

They have a faceted or optic effect towards the base, and the bases glow nicely under ultra violet light.

I have called these cocktail glasses, but actually they seem slightly too small for that, so maybe they were sherry glasses or something else?

I am guessing at 1930's for their date unless anyone wishes to correct me?

Title: Re: cocktail glass set with uv reactive base - id or date please.
Post by: Lustrousstone on October 01, 2008, 06:44:21 AM

Those are very common in the UK; there are also little matching shallow dessert dishes (I have both!). I also have a set of champagne saucers/stemmed dessert dishes with similar but not identical ribbing on the irridised saucers but with the same unusual shade of green uranium stems. I think they might be from the same manufacturer - that shade of green is unusual and quite distinct. The saucers I know date from the late 1940s because they were a wedding present for my friend's Mum. The main difference is that the sherries and matching dishes have "safety rims"; the saucers do not. I would speculate that the sherries are perhaps 1950s; they also appear in non uranium.

This could all be tosh, of course!  ;D

Title: Re: cocktail glass set with uv reactive base - id or date please.
Post by: Littleblackhen on October 01, 2008, 11:05:55 AM

Thanks for the id :)

It is a shame they are common, I hadn't seen any before  :cry:

These will be going into my antiques unit this afternoon so it is good to have a reasonable idea of what to write on the label :)

Title: Re: cocktail glass set with uv reactive base - id or date please.
Post by: Lustrousstone on October 06, 2008, 06:57:13 PM

Funnily enough, on Saturday we picked up a set of teeny schnapps/shot type glasses to match. They're just 5 cm tall. They help to confirm my feeling that these are Continental Europe rather than British

Title: Re: cocktail glass set with uv reactive base - id or date please.
Post by: dirk. on October 06, 2008, 07:18:42 PM

just to back up your continental feeling...
i´ve got a single one with uranium and a pair
of clear ones.

Title: Re: cocktail glass set with uv reactive base - id or date please.
Post by: Lustrousstone on October 07, 2008, 07:02:03 AM

On further reflection, there was also a set in the sort of turquoisey blue that seems to be found in continental rather than English glasses, which we didn't buy

Title: Re: cocktail glass set with uv reactive base - id or date please.
Post by: dirk. on October 07, 2008, 07:35:34 PM

something interesting on musterbuch.de, markhbeinn catalogue 1932:

http://www.glas-musterbuch.de/Markhbeinn-1932.19+B6YmFja1BJRD0xOSZwcm9kdWN0SUQ9Njg1JnBpZF9wcm9kdWN0PTE5JmRldGFpbD0_.0.html

Title: Re: cocktail glass set with uv reactive base - id or date please.
Post by: Lustrousstone on October 07, 2008, 07:51:18 PM

Possibly an earlier version. I think the catalogue says pink or blue glass with a black foot. Mine are machine made, they're identical