These were unearthed in a parental clear-out (as in my parents were clearing out their junk, not me clearing out the parents and finding these glasses concealed under them. Well, probably not, anyway).
They've been in the family since at least the late 1940s after my sailor grandfather won them in a game of cards (many many family heirlooms seem to have been acquired by gambling sailor grandparents). They were originally in a presentation box (long since thrown away), but my mother remembers that on the box it said that the gilding was real gold, and not just coloured paint.
H=65mm D=50mm, and they're really very light and delicate.
Shot GlassAny clues? I can't really find anything similar by Kastrup / Fyens, the likely culprits in Denmark. Kastrup did have an identical shape in production from 1886 - 1934, and Fyens in 1890, but nothing with this decoration. I expect that many factories were also making this shape in thin glass.
Could they be from outside of Denmark?
Topic: Set 6 Danish Galleon Shot Glasses (Read 5389 times)
