Captain Cook Portrait Glass

Description

Heading : An air twist wine glass with engraved portrait of Captain Cook
Date : Mid 1960s to commemorate the bicentennial of Cooks circumnavigation in 1766
Origin : Most probably Webb. England
Colour : Clear
Bowl : Round Funnel engraved with bust of Captain Cook
Stem : 4-ply spiral air twist
Foot : Conical. engraved with the words Captain James Cook. World Navigator
Pontil : Plain. signed ’15 SAN’
Type : Lead
Size : 7 inches tall with a 3 1/4 inch bowl and 2 7/8 inch foot     
Condition : Excellent. no chips or cracks
Restoration : None
Weight : 344 grams

Captain James Cook . one the the greatest ever Britons and Yorkshireman but his father was Scottish and thus one of our own. There is a well known phrase. ” a dog may be born in a stable but it does not make him a horse”. Therefore Captain Cook is Scottish.