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 . 64—ENGLISH G LASS—J ACOB 65—ENGLISH G LASS—J ACOBITE. CHAP. XXIV. VARIETIES OF JACOBITE GLASSES. 371 has three drawn air-stemmed glasses like those at Chastleton, and again without thestar. These were long preserved in the loyal Walker family at Exeter, and,with the Chastleton glasses, may represent a west-country type. Lord Torphichenhas six Fiat glasses engraved with the full number of emblems ; the author hasone o


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 . 64—ENGLISH G LASS—J ACOB 65—ENGLISH G LASS—J ACOBITE. CHAP. XXIV. VARIETIES OF JACOBITE GLASSES. 371 has three drawn air-stemmed glasses like those at Chastleton, and again without thestar. These were long preserved in the loyal Walker family at Exeter, and,with the Chastleton glasses, may represent a west-country type. Lord Torphichenhas six Fiat glasses engraved with the full number of emblems ; the author hasone of great delicacy, from Shropshire (Plate 65), and two obtained in Leicester in1890 ; a few others like them have come under his notice, on which all the emblemsare shown. It is impossible to account for the absence of the sta>^ on so many of the Fiatglasses with drawn air-twisted stems. Two of this kind are in the collectionformed by the late Dowager Marchioness of Huntly (Fig. 363); two more belongto Mr. J. Wood (Fig. 364), one to Lord Leigh, and another was seen in the


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