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Title: Blue cut glass/crystal goblet with lozenge
Post by: heartofsklo on August 07, 2010, 07:33:13 PM

Measures 13.5 cm tall, unsure if the lozenge would have originally had something else in it or not. The base pontil area is inverted and perfectly smooth.

(http://img210.imageshack.us/img210/5507/dscf1104d.th.jpg) (http://img210.imageshack.us/i/dscf1104d.jpg/)

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Title: Re: Blue cut glass/crystal goblet with lozenge
Post by: glassobsessed on August 07, 2010, 09:32:43 PM

A Wedgwood commemorative souvenir (1972-1982), difficult to know what it was commemorating as it has lost it's Jasperware cameo.

If you have a copy of 20th Century Glass by Andy McConnell it's on page 232.

John

Title: Re: Blue cut glass/crystal goblet with lozenge
Post by: Paul S. on August 07, 2010, 09:46:26 PM

appears to be a Wedgwood Cameo Goblet  - issued, apparently, mainly to commemorate special occasions, i.e. royal events, when there would have been a suitable cameo inset in the seal - the cameo itself having a blackish background.    Made in three colours  - smokey blue, topaz and amethyst.   Not used very often for general giftware, apparently, so yours may be less common in fact than those carrying the actual cameo - but that is conjecture only :)   Certainly produced throughout most of the 1970's, and should be 12.75 cms. tall.
Ref. Wedgwood Glass  -  Susan Tobin  -  2001.

Title: Re: Blue cut glass/crystal goblet with lozenge
Post by: heartofsklo on August 07, 2010, 10:01:39 PM

Thanks all, There is no residue where there may have been a cameo but will assume there was at some point. I will look up the wedgewood references. Thanks

Title: Re: Blue cut glass/crystal goblet with lozenge
Post by: Paul S. on August 08, 2010, 12:33:53 PM

I don't know that you should assume there would have been a cameo  -  I get the impression that a small quantity were sold without one, in the line of "general giftware", although this was quite uncommon. :)

Title: Re: Blue cut glass/crystal goblet with lozenge
Post by: Paul S. on September 18, 2010, 04:05:05 PM

here's one that presumably belonged to someone who had a nostalgia for their Spanish hols. (at least I assume it is a Spanish coin)  -  and seems to have been attached professionally. :)