{"id":2981,"date":"2014-01-09T05:41:15","date_gmt":"2014-01-09T10:41:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/grannysglasses.com\/?p=2981"},"modified":"2014-01-09T05:41:15","modified_gmt":"2014-01-09T10:41:15","slug":"bottoms-up-shot-glass-reproduction-of-a-mckee-piece","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/grannysglasses.com\/?p=2981","title":{"rendered":"&#8220;Bottoms Up&#8221; Shot Glass &#8211; Reproduction of a McKee Piece"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/grannysglasses.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/01\/IMG_0111.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-2980\" alt=\"IMG_0111\" src=\"https:\/\/grannysglasses.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/01\/IMG_0111-300x200.jpg\" width=\"300\" height=\"200\" srcset=\"https:\/\/grannysglasses.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/01\/IMG_0111-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/grannysglasses.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/01\/IMG_0111-1024x682.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a>I thought this was the funniest thing I&#8217;d seen in a long time. \u00a0I never tire of asking people what they think it was used for.<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s a reproduction of McKee Glass Company&#8217;s Bottoms Up shot glass. \u00a0Neat, isn&#8217;t it? \u00a0Any beverage poured into the glass definitely has to be consumed in one sip &#8211; no putting it down until then!<\/p>\n<p>I didn&#8217;t know anything about it until after I bought it and tried to track down the piece&#8217;s history. \u00a0Came across this interesting article from <a href=\"http:\/\/www.realorrepro.com\/article\/Bottoms-Up-Tumblers-by-McKee\">Real or Repro: Your Online Source for Identifying Fakes or Reproductions<\/a>. \u00a0Turns out that my piece does not have the requisite patent number and is a reproduction of the McKee pieces.<a href=\"https:\/\/grannysglasses.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/01\/IMG_0105.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-medium wp-image-2979\" alt=\"IMG_0105\" src=\"https:\/\/grannysglasses.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/01\/IMG_0105-300x200.jpg\" width=\"300\" height=\"200\" srcset=\"https:\/\/grannysglasses.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/01\/IMG_0105-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/grannysglasses.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/01\/IMG_0105-1024x682.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>I often wonder where reproductions were made and how old they are.<\/p>\n<p>Nonetheless I have a rich ruby red conversation piece!<\/p>\n<div id=\"wp_fb_like_button\" style=\"margin:5px 0;float:none;height:100px;\"><script src=\"http:\/\/connect.facebook.net\/en_US\/all.js#xfbml=1\"><\/script><fb:like href=\"https:\/\/grannysglasses.com\/?p=2981\" send=\"true\" layout=\"standard\" width=\"450\" show_faces=\"true\" font=\"arial\" action=\"like\" colorscheme=\"light\"><\/fb:like><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I thought this was the funniest thing I&#8217;d seen in a long time. \u00a0I never tire of asking people what &hellip;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/grannysglasses.com\/?p=2981\">Continue reading &raquo;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[310],"tags":[312,252,311],"class_list":["post-2981","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-reproductions","tag-mckee","tag-reproduction","tag-shot-glass"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/grannysglasses.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2981","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/grannysglasses.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/grannysglasses.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/grannysglasses.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/grannysglasses.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2981"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/grannysglasses.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2981\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/grannysglasses.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2981"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/grannysglasses.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2981"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/grannysglasses.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2981"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}