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Unknown Etch

18 Saturday Feb 2012

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Birds, Floral, Leaves

My mother-in-law was a lovely, genteel woman who was interested in many art forms and had a number of vintage/antique collections.  These stems were hers and they were the first etched glasses that I had ever seen, or at least noted.  She had five and I always thought that they were among the most beautiful items I had ever seen.  She never used them (and I do not either).  They are now mine and I have searched and searched, but have been unable to determine their provenance.  They have an exotic  ‘oriental’ look to them – flowers, bird and leaves.  My son loves these stems and has laid claim to them.  I don’t know if the glasses appeal to him, or if it’s the fact that they belonged to his Nana.  She has been gone for 7 years now.  I thank her for these particular glasses, for her genes in my three wonderful children and for my interest in elegant glass in general.

Unknown Engraving – Shrimp Cocktails

15 Wednesday Feb 2012

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Floral

I bought five or six of these shrimp cocktail stems at a local Value Village.  I don’t have the liners – the store wouldn’t let me buy them from another set!  Anyway who puts their shrimp in liners and then fills the glass with ice!  I’m not that fancy and certainly no one who would feed me shrimp is that fancy.  We are lucky to get the shrimp off the plastic ring!  I have seen this engraving a number of times.  I imagine that someone knows the name, although that someone isn’t me.  I have used these stems for brandy, when I was temporarily short of snifters.  Likely a brandy connoisseur would shudder.  The brandy came via Cuba, so i am thinking it wasn’t the finest in any event.  I don’t imagine I will hang on to these.  They are pretty, but really not my thing.

Unknown Etch

13 Monday Feb 2012

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Floral

I only have one of these stems.  Likely a claret or some such purpose.   I think my partner bought it for me.  If so, it was cheap!  Kind of a miracle as I had always thought he paid no attention to the bazillions of glasses that fill all corners of our house!  I’ve played around with the colour and contrast of the photos in order to show the detail of the etch.  Very intricate.  The cross thatching (for lack of a better word) reminds me of that of Fostoria’s Melrose, but it is not Melrose.  I also like the stem.

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