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Title: Is this a 'deception' glass ?
Post by: keith on October 16, 2018, 04:51:05 PM
4 inches tall, no pontil mark just loads of wear, the glass is quite dark and shows tool marks, Victorian ? English ?  ;D
Title: Re: Is this a 'deception' glass ?
Post by: bat20 on October 16, 2018, 04:59:29 PM
Bistro Absinthe glass perhaps??,has it got a faint line on it anywhere for measurement.
Title: Re: Is this a 'deception' glass ?
Post by: chopin-liszt on October 16, 2018, 05:00:15 PM
 ;) I'm sure I'd have been very disappointed to get a drink in one of those, at one point in my life. (Well, I'd have pretended to be disappointed.  ::) I'd actually have been furious, but far too ashamed to admit it.   ;) )
It looks much more like a deception glass than a penny lick, to me, Keith.
And nowadays, I'd be far more interested in the contents of a penny lick. ;D
Title: Re: Is this a 'deception' glass ?
Post by: keith on October 16, 2018, 06:50:52 PM
No lines for measuring,
  Sue, I'd be disappointed now ! has that old feel and grey tinge to the glass, bit large for a penny lick, those were not what you'd call  hygienic  :o ;D ;D here's one I found a while ago.... ;D ;D
Title: Re: Is this a 'deception' glass ?
Post by: chopin-liszt on October 16, 2018, 06:58:39 PM
 ;D We didn't have all these new-fangled superbugs in those days.

Title: Re: Is this a 'deception' glass ?
Post by: Ekimp on October 16, 2018, 08:37:34 PM
Hi Keith, you say ‘no pontil mark’ but if it is Victorian it should have a snapped, ground or gadget marked pontil. If it was a penny lick, you would need an excessively long tongue! As for hygiene, I can’t buy an ice cream in a cone these days without thinking about where the vendor’s hands have been in his hot sticky van.
Title: Re: Is this a 'deception' glass ?
Post by: keith on October 16, 2018, 10:54:54 PM
Should have posted a base shot   ::) best I can do.
Title: Re: Is this a 'deception' glass ?
Post by: bat20 on October 16, 2018, 10:59:58 PM
The T is the shear mark from the gadget tool dating it to about the 1870's.
Title: Re: Is this a 'deception' glass ?
Post by: keith on October 17, 2018, 12:03:28 PM
Many thanks, always good to put a date to something  ;D ;D