SOLD – Georgian Drawn Trumpet Engraved Gin Glass c1750

Description

An excellent Drawn Trumpet Gin Glass c1750 with a waves and stars engraved around the rim above a conical foot with snapped pontil.

If you lived in a “Rookery” such as Jacob’s Island. Petticoat Lane or St Giles then the slums of London were home. They were brutal and crime ridden dens of criminality and vice. In the 18th century “Hollands” was the “opiate” of the masses. yes the same mothers ruin. gin. Hogarth depicts the scene in “Gin Lane”.

There were numerous distilleries and it it was sold from a dram shop. of which there were many thousands. It caused not only drunkenness but riots. madness and murder. In the case of Judith Dufour she murdered her own child to sell his clothes to buy gin. Drunk for a penny. dead drunk for tuppence. clean straw for nothing. By 1751 the government decided to act and the “gin craze” was taxed and its popularity waned

English lead. no chips cracks or restoration. it measures 4 ¾ inches tall with a 2 ¼ inch bowl and 2 ½ inch foot.