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Glass Discussion & Research. NO IDENTIFICATION REQUESTS here please. => British & Irish Glass => Topic started by: agincourt17 on August 31, 2013, 01:12:54 PM
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A Victorian hand-blown glass icing jug, 9 inches tall. The rim and handle are of clear glass, whereas the body of the jug is of frosted glass. The jug has an 'icing pocket' (also frosted) whch takes the form of a pocket, or bladder of glass, blown into the side of the jug near the handle, and into which ice can be put without its diluting or contaminating the contents.
(Permission for the re-use of these images on the GMB granted by Daniel Letts).
The top of the looped handle has an applied ‘seal’ bearing a raised registry date lozenge. Unfortunately, I can’t make out all the alphanumeric identifiers on the lozenge (though it appears to be a first series – 1842-1867- lozenge).
The nearest I can get is :
Year letter U or V (1848 or 1850)
Month letter E (May)
Day letter 3 (or possibly 5 or 8)
Parcel number (11 or possibly Roman II).
None of these lozenge combinations seems to ‘work’, however.
There is an unmarked jug of similar design shown at
http://www.butlersantiques.com/item/9980-frosted-glass-icing-jug
tentatively dated at c. 1880… “probably originally intended for serving lemonade (home made, of course), but it would do excellent service for white wine. Georgian decanters with this feature are very rare.”
So, does anyone have a similar icing jug with an easily-decipherable lozenge, or is anyone able to suggest what the precise registration details might be, please?
Fred.