Description:
Over-size blown glass tumbler, with etched plant and flower designs on front and back. Large size because of communal use during early American times. Rough Pontil.
Label Text:
SKINNER CATALOGUE: 96 Lovely blown flip glass - 6 3/4" hi. 4 3/4" at top. Etched flower decoration. Rough pontil. Perfect condition. 'Though shapes were varied, and the number was generally plentiful, there was no attempt made to give separate drinking-cups of any kind to each individual at the table. Blissfully ignorant of the existence or presence of microbes, germs, and bacteria, our sturdy and unsqueamish forbearers drank contentedly in succession from a single vessel, which was passed from hand to hand, and lip to lip, around the board. Even when tumbler shaped glasses were seen in many houses, flip glasses, they were called, they were of communal size, some held a gallon, and all drank from the same glass.' Alice-Morse-Earle in 'House, Life and Colonial Days.
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