Union Engraved Coin Goblet c1870

Description

Heading :A Union engraved glass goblet
Period : Victoria
Origin : England 
Colour : Clear 
Bowl : Engraved with the national symbols of England. Ireland and Scotland United Kingdom and the initials J P
Stem : Hollow ball knop enclosing a silver threepenny piece dated 1866
Foot : star cut on underside
Glass Type : Lead 
Size :  20cms height.  10.5cm diameter bowl. 10.5cm diameter foot 
Condition : There is a shallow flake chip in the foot rim 7mm x 3mm. This may be retsored with a resin fill if required
Restoration : None 
Weight:  A hefty 550grams 

The enclosed coin confirms this goblet was made during or after 1866. That same year Queen Victoria presided over the opening of parliament for the first time since Prince Albert’s death in January 1861. The relevance to this event may or may not offer a possible reason for its  production or perhaps the marriage on the 5th July of the Queens’s daughter  Princess Helena to Prince Christian of Schleswig-Holstein at Windsor. It is  however debatable that the goblet postdates 1885 by virtue the use of gothic letters for the initials. Gothic was very much out of favour.

It is possible that the JP is John Penfold the architect who designed the hexagonal post boxes in 1866 a few of which still exist. These were installed throughout GB and Ireland.