Technical Description
A fine Victorian glass tumbler with slice cuts and engraved with Masonic symbols including set square and compass, moon, sun, and all seeing eye. The base of the tumbler has a hollow compartment containing two dice. Polished pontil.
Date & Origin
Bohemia, c1870.
Condition
The base has a thin manufacturing internal annealing crack which does not come to the surface. The tumble can be used as normal.
Dimensions
Height: 9.8cm Diameter: 8.7cm.
Historical Relevance
Hand-blown around the time The Married Women's Property Act 1870 allowed married women to be the legal owners of the money they earned and to inherit property.
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