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Glass Identification - Post here for all ID requests => Glass => Topic started by: SNJ on June 16, 2018, 12:31:12 PM
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The shape might be right for a custard cup but I'm guessing that the size probably isn't; it's just 35mm tall. So perhaps a glass for a liqueur or similar? It's one of a set of six.
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I don't know anything about this type of glass, but just wondered if you can actually put your finger through in order to use it as a cup. If not, it might be a child's set, or a travelling sales rep's trade samples?
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The gap in the handle is wide enough gap to join thumb and fingertip with middle finger support under the lower handle terminal so I could use it as a drinking vessel. It wouldn't give a particularly generous portion though!
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Kids Dolls house or the like set?
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In Sweden, in slightly older times, ppl used to have "punsch" (a horribly sweet, arrack-flavoured liqueur) served hot with yellow pea soup, a speciality for Thursdays.
The punsch could also be served iced, without the pea soup.
It was often served in cups like that, style and size match.
In older export catalogues from Orrefors they are called "custards"
Here is a picture from the export cat from Orrefors-Sandvik 1921 (downloadable from http://bergdala-glastekniska-museum.se/nedladdningar.html along w lots od other Swe catalogues)
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I have two not vwery good pics of the 4 "punsch" cups we have in the museum.
(at special request, I can take them out of their display cases)
I realise the measauring stick is partly misleading, because ot the perspective, but it should be clear-ish that they are of the same general size as the OP's cups.
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Possibly a Schnapps or a liqueur glass. I've seen this with a decanter http://lustrousstone.co.uk/cpg/displayimage.php?pid=31 and sometimes you see them with glass barrels and hanging on the wooden frame holding the barrel
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and... while I am here: what, exactly, is the "custard" part of the Swe export "custards", please?
Most dictionaries insist at giving me "thick, egg based, vanilla-flavoured sauce" as an explanation of custard. But that would not be drinkable from those small cups?
Even if we were talking of "frozen custard" the cups would be on the small side, IMO.
- there are other models called custards in old Swe catalogues. Howver: all hold a very small amount.
Some custards have a foot - but are still very small.
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Egg nog?
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Good 'nuf, I guess... :-D
...is that so very loved in the UK that it meriths its own glass type...?
(Sometimes, in the papers accompanying the export catalogues, there are ...er... surprising words and sentences. OTOH: cultural differences are not only geographical, can also be time-related. We may never know why a "custard")
Kerstin
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Custard glasses are generaly bigger than these tiny things. I think it was eaten with a spoon rather than drank
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I would love to think that these are child's glasses or traveller's samples but I suspect that they're probably just liqueur glasses for parsimonius hosts. Many thanks for the input, everyone!