Old English glassesAn account of glass drinking vessels in England, from early times to the end of the eighteenth centuryWith introductory notices, original documents, etc . f^i^. 61—ENGLISH GLASS—JACOBITE. CHAP. XXIV. YOUNG PRETENDER GLASSES. 563 attempted and finally accomplished Union of 1707. All these are probably earlyCycle glasses. Another air-stemmed glass, also in Mr. Ways possession, has therose and two buds, Fiaf, and the oak leaf on the bowl, and the Prince of WalessFeathers on the foot (Fig. 359). This is a Cycle glass of about 1740. In HerGracious Majestys collection at Balmoral
Old English glassesAn account of glass drinking vessels in England, from early times to the end of the eighteenth centuryWith introductory notices, original documents, etc . f^i^. 61—ENGLISH GLASS—JACOBITE. CHAP. XXIV. YOUNG PRETENDER GLASSES. 563 attempted and finally accomplished Union of 1707. All these are probably earlyCycle glasses. Another air-stemmed glass, also in Mr. Ways possession, has therose and two buds, Fiaf, and the oak leaf on the bowl, and the Prince of WalessFeathers on the foot (Fig. 359). This is a Cycle glass of about 1740. In HerGracious Majestys collection at Balmoral is a glass with a bell-shaped bowl, anda bulbed and knopped stem. It is engraved with the rose and thistle and therare motto— Cujus est cuique suum reddite. Mr. J. C. Ford has a most attractive drawn glass, with a plain octagonalstem cut into long flutes running up into the bowl. It is engraved with the roseand the thistle, and is a type of great rarity, perhaps unique (Fig. 360). It was in accordance with the social practice of the age that one of the resultsof disaffection to the Hanoverian dynasty should be the establishment of secret clubs.
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