Topic: Cranberry glass spoon warmer or HUGE salt in EPNS stand engraved reg design no

[flying free]

I thought this was rather interesting for more than one reason.
I think it a spoon warmer, but glass is not the best material for having spoon warmers made of to be honest, so perhaps a preserve stand of some sort maybe?  However it's other function could be a gigantic salt   or for giants toothpicks. But the only one that makes sense really is spoon warmer and I have seen silver ones in a similar barrel shape modelled as canons.  The frame is correct for it and the perfect fit - it is EPNS and just has EPNS stamped on the fluted base.
It has the registered design no engraved on it 'reg 410770 - this number is not in the Great Glass list of reg numbers unfortunately but dates to 1903. I think glass with an engraved registered number is quite scarce from what I read.
The glass is internally ribbed and has a cut, polished and bevelled rim at the top.  At the base it has a little knop, ground to fit securely into the silver bobble at the bottom of the plated stand.
Measures 6" wide, 5 1/8" high and 3 1/4" deep as a piece with glass in place.

I hope to get a maker, and confirmation that it is designed as a spoon warmer, from the reg number so that will be my next effort, but just thought I'd share as it is a bit of a curiosity.
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[Paul S.]

it won't be in any of the pressed glass lists, presumably, because it isn't pressed glass

[flying free]

As far as I know the Great Glass reg numbers aren't only pressed glass though are they? 
And no it's not pressed glass. It's handblown with a cut and polished rim.
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[Paul S.]

Must admit I don't use that particular list, although it would be the same, in general, as all the other lists (some copying probably)  - although can say that it's not showing in Thompson (inlcuding her supplement).    Too late to be in Slack or Lattimore.           You're correct about including other than pressed, and some cut is also included in the lists - although the pressed authors would not have discussed those.       How about a tooth pick holder?  spill holder?

[flying free]

Spill holder is a possibility Paul, I hadn't thought of that  - but it's much too big for toothpick holder.
So spill holder or spoon warmer, spill holder feels better than spoon warmer, good thinking.
Thanks for looking in Thompson for me, I'm grateful.  I do wonder whether the design number might be for the whole piece, not just the glass and therefore it might be registered in the metals section rather than glass?
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[Paul S.]

I will look the next time I go to Kew, unless of course you get the answer in the meantime.         But why a spoon warmer  -  are there in fact such things??

[flying free]

Thanks Paul, that's very kind.
There are spoon warmers, plenty of  examples in silver, many being nautilus shell shaped oddly 
I'm sure I've read they were also made in glass.  The silver ones seem to me to be more enclosed than this though and the more I think about your suggestion of spill vase, the more I think that  might be more likely than spoon warmer. I was told emphatically it was a spoon warmer when I bought it despite my suggestion it was a giant salt, but that's not to say he was right.  It will be interesting to find out what it was registered as, if that information becomes available.
Take a look at the silver spoon warmers.  Some of them are pretty majestic.
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[Lustrousstone]

Lump sugar methinks and missing the tongs

[flying free]

Christine I think you win the prize!
Luckily I always carry a spare pair of sugar tongs around 
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[Lustrousstone]

It's a posh coal scuttle...