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Glass Discussion & Research. NO IDENTIFICATION REQUESTS here please. => British & Irish Glass => Topic started by: keith on August 22, 2020, 08:28:54 PM

Title: Tiny drinking glass for show.
Post by: keith on August 22, 2020, 08:28:54 PM

Just 2,75 inches tall, the bowl is 1.25 across, Victorian I presume, what would you drink out of this ?

Title: Re: Tiny drinking glass for show.
Post by: Ekimp on August 23, 2020, 07:29:26 AM

Perhaps it’s for someone trying to cut back :-X ;D I thought this maybe a travellers’ sample, I have read they are usually less than 3 inches tall, but if that was the case, I’m not sure the quality is there. You would think they’d have got the two sections of stem the same diameter in a sample?

Not sure it’s British or Irish either, looks like a smaller version of this flashed continental glass, especially with that cloud like engraving: https://www.glassmessages.com/index.php/topic,69594.msg387822.html#msg387822

Title: Re: Tiny drinking glass for show.
Post by: bat20 on August 23, 2020, 08:01:40 AM

They made a lot of glass like this in the Scandinavian countries  in the 1900's,I think Holmegard made a lot of similar pieces,along with many others in that part of the world.

http://www.glashistoriskselskab.dk/index.php/Glashistorisk-Museum/Drikkeglas/Matslebne-glas/Conradsminde-1840-996

Title: Re: Tiny drinking glass for show.
Post by: keith on August 23, 2020, 11:33:05 AM

Thanks both, someone suggested French or Bohemian now I can add Scandinavia  ::) ;D ;D