{"id":353,"date":"2012-02-02T04:57:25","date_gmt":"2012-02-02T09:57:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/grannysglasses.com\/?p=353"},"modified":"2012-02-04T14:29:55","modified_gmt":"2012-02-04T19:29:55","slug":"royal-doulton-balmoral","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/grannysglasses.com\/?p=353","title":{"rendered":"Royal Doulton Balmoral (?)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: left;\">I don&#8217;t generally collect cut crystal. \u00a0But one day I realized that my guests were forced to drink their non-wine beverages out of Ikea glasses. \u00a0There is nothing wrong with that of course, but it just didn&#8217;t seem fair. \u00a0Always nice to have an excuse to broaden<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/grannysglasses.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/01\/043.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-medium wp-image-320\" title=\"043\" src=\"https:\/\/grannysglasses.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/01\/043-225x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"225\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/grannysglasses.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/01\/043-225x300.jpg 225w, https:\/\/grannysglasses.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/01\/043-768x1024.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 225px) 100vw, 225px\" \/><\/a><span style=\"text-align: left;\">one&#8217;s holdings. \u00a0Very difficult to find nice vintage glasses for mixed drinks. \u00a0I came across these in an antique store in Orono, Ontario. \u00a0Orono has turned into a little haven for antiquers in the GTA area. \u00a0I&#8217;m not 100% sure that they are Balmoral. \u00a0I always find it hard to identify cut pieces &#8211; so many cross thatches! \u00a0If they are Balmoral, they aren&#8217;t particularly old &#8211; about 25-35 years old.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">I had always thought of Royal Doulton as a maker of china. \u00a0But these are marked. \u00a0I like the heft of these glasses. \u00a0They feel very solid in the hand. \u00a0I have to admit that they really don&#8217;t &#8216;spark&#8217; me, but they are shiny and I guess you gotta love that.<\/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=353\" send=\"true\" layout=\"standard\" width=\"450\" show_faces=\"true\" font=\"arial\" action=\"like\" colorscheme=\"light\"><\/fb:like><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I don&#8217;t generally collect cut crystal. \u00a0But one day I realized that my guests were forced to drink their non-wine &hellip;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/grannysglasses.com\/?p=353\">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":[56],"tags":[53],"class_list":["post-353","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-royal-doulton","tag-cut"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/grannysglasses.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/353","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=353"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/grannysglasses.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/353\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/grannysglasses.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=353"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/grannysglasses.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=353"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/grannysglasses.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=353"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}