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Title: Help with identifying old glass
Post by: acce123 on June 21, 2020, 12:32:23 PM

Hi

I recently bought the attached glass, it is small and heavy, slightly off balance and with a rough pontil mark on the bottom.

It is 8.5cm tall, the foot is 4.5cm diameter, the bowl 3.75cm diameter across the rim and About 4cm to the base of the bowl.

Please could you tell me what this was used for and how old it might be?

Thanks

Title: Re: Help with identifying old glass
Post by: keith on June 21, 2020, 01:30:13 PM

Quite new to drinking glasses myself but it looks late 19th early 20th century to me, as it is quite small maybe gin ? oh and welcome  ;D ;D

Title: Re: Help with identifying old glass
Post by: NevB on June 21, 2020, 03:29:54 PM

I'm not an expert either but it shows the signs of being earlier, 1800-1820?, but maybe as late as 1850. There are a couple of posts on YouTube under "identifying 19th. century glass" which you might find interesting. It's probably a tavern glass.

Title: Re: Help with identifying old glass
Post by: keith on June 21, 2020, 04:34:57 PM

Shall have a look at that as I'm still learning  ::) ;D ;D

Title: Re: Help with identifying old glass
Post by: NevB on June 21, 2020, 05:25:26 PM

Sorry Keith, I should have put "19th. century glasses". There is also a website which you should be able to find under  antique-marks.com/georgian-glass (https://antique-marks.com/georgian-glass.html) which has a link to an article on Identifying Georgian Drinking Glasses. Sorry I haven't mastered how to do a link to it.

Mod: Edited to change the "website referral" to a url. However, the articles link to ".pdf" files which do not open properly for me.

Title: Re: Help with identifying old glass
Post by: keith on June 21, 2020, 06:19:29 PM

Ta, I'll find it  ;D ;D

Title: Re: Help with identifying old glass
Post by: Laird on June 27, 2020, 03:37:59 PM

Quite an apparently wonky example. I don't think I would argue with the 1800 to 1850 range. If we believe it to be a tavern gin glass, I can only think that it must have given the drinker using it, a feeling of inebriation just by looking at it.
I wonder how it escaped the 'return to furnace' bin?

Title: Re: Help with identifying old glass
Post by: Lustrousstone on June 28, 2020, 09:11:58 AM

Quality as we know it is very much a late 20th C thing. These things were "mass produced". It's fit for purpose and has no volume markings, so why bin an adequate glass. That cost way to much money

Title: Re: Help with identifying old glass
Post by: NevB on June 28, 2020, 12:44:03 PM

They probably didn't think it would last very long anyway.