An Engraved Glass Victorian Coin Goblet c1880

Description

Heading :An engraved glass Victorian coin goblet c1880
Period : Victoria
Origin : England
Colour : Clear
Bowl : Lipped round funnel engraved with fruiting vines above slice cutting.
Stem : Hollow ball knop enclosing a silver four pence piece dated 1839 above a blade knop and two flattened ball knops
Foot : star cut on underside
Glass Type : Lead
Size :  20.3cms height.  11.3cm diameter bowl. 9.5cm diameter foot
Condition : Excellent
Restoration : None
Weight:  A hefty 519 grams

This is a classic example of why the date of a coin embedded within a glass has little significance other that it being the earliest date at which the glass may have been manufactured. This is most likely to have been made around the time of Victoria’s golden jubilee