Topic: Is it a jelly mould?

[duncano]

Another junk market find...looks like a jelly mould superficially, but seems to be better quality with a ground bottom etc.  It measures 9.5cm in height and 8cm across.

Anyway any info on it would be greatly appreciated.

Cheers,

Duncan

[Paul S.]

am I seeing a small lip (ledge) just inside the mouth? - not quite sure from the pix.

[duncano]

Hi Paul,

No it drops straight down for about 1cm.  I think I see what you mean on the photos.  The top seems to have been ground and polished and also the outside edge has also been ground as well to create like a bevel.

Hope I have helped more than hindered.

Duncan

[Paul S.]

perhaps a little confusion here.     Are you saying Duncan that there is a lip or ledge of sorts (internally), about 1 centimetre down from the rim?? - and then the moulding starts.     Thoughts were that if there had been a lip at about that level, then one possibility might have been a butter dish.    Don't think it is a tea mixing bowl  -  probably too small, and they were cut glass, usually.    Aside from the ground bottom, I take it that the remainder of the body is simply pressed glass?

[duncano]

The diameter decreases by a curved rim 1cm down from the rim.  Its a very curved ledge!  Yes I think it is definitely pressed glass apart from the grinding and polishing at both ends. Definitely not cut glass but still quite a weight at 0.9kg.

[Lustrousstone]

Measure the volume. If it's a pint or half pint, it's probably a jelly mould. But it looks like a jelly mould to me.

[duncano]

It's just over three quarters of a pint in volume!
I am no expert on jelly moulds but just seems that someone went to too much effort.