Topic: Edwardian Wine Glasses

[John Kuschel]

I was recently given a gift of 6 Edwardian wine glasses, and was hoping that someone could tell me a bit more about them. I know nothing except that they are Edwardian, and about 8 inches high.

If anyone can help me, I would appreciate it.

[Paul S.]

hello John......also very typical shape for a hock glass.    Unfortunately, your pictures are looking rather blurred - so difficult to see the actual decoration in detail.     Assume you have looked on the underside of the foot for any makers mark/name  -  always worthwhile.       You may be correct and they may well indeed be Edwardian, but what are you basing your asertion on??        Nice glasses by the way, and welcome to the GMB.

[John Kuschel]

Thanks for your help Paul, I looked all over the glasses and could find no identifications or markings. They were given to me by my grandparents with a small cardboard plaque that said "Set of 6 Edwardian Wine Glasses". That's all that I know!

[Paul S.]

Don't know that I was helpful John.       My only thought re date was that many people tend to stretch their notion of 'Edwardian' from the reality of ten years to something a lot more expansive.      In the absence of any marks, the alternative method to identify positively is to find the exact pattern from one of the available books - but there are a lot of books...........          This type of drinking glass has been around for a long time, and in the C19 and well into the C20 many superb cut examples in cased and flashed were produced, some very good ones in the 1930's period.      Because many of the older continental examples (possibly Bohemian) were produced in colours, it may have been thought that clear examples were too dull for this aristocratic shape of drinking glass, and so many of the better British pieces are in colours also.    From your pictures I can't see for certain the method used to decorate   -   it looks like wheel engraving (and good quality too), but might even be machine etching  -  none of which helps us with a positive date or attribution remotely.    I don't believe they have been mitre cut (i.e. what is referred to usually as 'cut glass').   These things were made by many factories, and the odds are against you finding the maker's name, unfortunately.   But you never know        I really wouldn't care to put a date on your glasses, without seeing better pictures showing more close up views of the decoration and the base.