Topic: 17th century glass - what is a flat glass to keep a mustache dry?

[Ivo]

It would be a bit vile syphoning your wine through a moustache full of wax and pomade, of course.

[flying free]

Yes, I'd not thought of that either Ivo, horrible.  So therefore it must be a glass that kept the moustache out of the way of the wine.
hurrah I may be onto something.

m

[Lustrousstone]

and equally you wouldn't want your carefully styled moustache drooping because it's damp

[flying free]

Quite 

[flying free]

I guess though, it's wise to remember that the account of the collection was written in the late 1800s.  The collection dates to c.1708/9 or before (if some of the items date earlier than that - I don't know if that is the case, it could be that they are all definitively made in 1708/9 but I have a query over two of the items which might date to mid 1600s).  So it could be that what was perceived as a 'mustache glass' in 1868 was not made as a 'mustache glass' in 1708 perhaps?  Unless of course that account was written by referencing earlier (contemporary to c1708) lists of inventory.  I don't know if that is the case.

m