Collecting Antique Wine Glasses

There is nothing quite like sipping a fine wine from the ancient glass of wine, it somehow manages to make the wine taste even bolji.Najbolji ancient glass of wine can sell for many thousands of pounds and are therefore beyond the reach of most collectors. If you have an old-fashioned wine glasses are made ​​to you through the generations could be sitting on a fortune. There are a number of projects of antique wine glasses, and it's impossible to list them all, but here are some examples of

Rana glasses

glass used as material for drinking vessels from ancient Roman times, if not earlier. Glass is easy to clean, reusable, and hygienic and has never gone out of fashion. During the Middle Ages, glass design has become a diversified, especially decorative ones made in the German speaking area.

As with most antiques, the rule is the earlier date of production becomes more expensive. At the upper end of the market you will find beautifully crafted 16th and 17 century Venetian goblets, decorated bowls filigrana.Pehar was no ordinary home or tavern to drink a boat, it is often higher than normal drinking glasses, and sometimes with silver or silver-plated lid. Trophies were given as gifts, and sometimes carved to mark the event. They are therefore highly sought after today and the prices are high.

balusters

Very little drinking cups in England before the end of the 17th stoljeća.Beneluxa and Venice were the main areas of industry. However, the 1675 George Ravenscroft developed lead glass and gradually English style on scenu.Pluteja design is one of the earliest examples, and was popular from around 1690 do 1720th Many people find baluster masterpiece of English glass making, and they became longtime favorite of collectors, because of the simplicity of modern design and clean glass.

baluster glasses are heavy and symmetrical in obliku.Proizlazi have one or more of Knops and feet are either domed or conical, folded to add extra strength and stabilnost.Dizajni are inspired by modern baroque furniture. Knops on early balusters are relatively common, but more elaborate forms originated in 18th century - the 'cylinder' and 'egg' shape are considered the rarest and therefore most valuable of them. However, the true baluster glasses are rarely decorated. If you come across baluster glass with engraved decoration, the more likely it was added after the glass is initially made​​.

balusters can fetch prices as high as Venetian goblets, but they still do not come cheap - you should have to pay several thousand pounds. They attract such high prices because many heavy glasses were melted down after the 1745 Excise Tax on clear lead crystal, so rarely found today.

Jacobite

of the 18th century a large number of English wine glasses are made of lead glass. That's when the modern design wine glass began to take shape - a bowl, stem and foot. One of the most collectible designs are wine and beer glasses engraved with Jacobite motifs, anthems and mottoes of the descendants of the Stuart king James II. Watch out for the engravings, such as roses and butterflies - Jacobite symbol, which indicates it was made for the supporters of James Stuart and his son, Charles Edward Stuart. There are also symbols of oak, the leaves, thistles, forget-me-nots and daffodils - all identified with Charles II. These glasses are sought after by collectors and often fetch prices from £ 2,000 upwards.

Air twists

the 1745 Act introduces a special tax on heavy glassmakers, heavy double knop and foot design had to be replaced with something a little more economically sound. What emerged is an air-twist stem - wine glasses were much lighter, but still very decorative. Air-knitted fabrics often have a diamond-point or wheel engraved armorials, political mottoes and commemorative theme to a bowl.

most popular type of air-twist is more spiral than to 12, even. Those results made ​​with a spiral also known as single-series air-twists, and not surprisingly, those with two different patterns of spiral called a double series of air twists. Glasses such as these would be done for the rich, which would put them to use on a daily basis. They will cost a few hundred pounds today.

Opaque-twists

popularity of air reversal decreased during the mid-18 century, when the opaque-twist (twist or enamel) was introduced. Opaque-fabric can be easily identified by the presence of strong spiral enamel - usually in the same formations as well as air-twists. At first, opaque-white fabric as a whole, but after 1765 were available in different colors, including a mix of white and colored, white, and air-twist, or occasionally in color and air-twist. Different colors of glass have different rates of cooling, which is why some color bars brittle. Yellow and blue fabric, for example, are much rarer and more sought after by collectors of red and green. While a simple opaque-twist stem wine glasses can be bought for relatively low cost, derived color can reach thousands.

faceted stems

In 1777 the government continues to act imposes an obligation on the color of the enamel glass, which rendered opaque fabric-expensive to manufacture. Therefore, the arrival of faceted stem, where the glass is cut away in decorative patterns - the ideal solution, because it is not only attractive, but weighed less. Facet, stem glasses have three main forms Faceting: diamond, hexagonal and flat-cut, popular from about 1780 do 1810th You can sometimes find glass where the leg was faceted, but very rarely bowl. At one point, faceted designs are less popular than air and opaque, twists, but their appeal grows with collectors and prices are rising.

Other stained glass

Since 1800 English manufacturers have also started to produce glass cased goods, inspired by the bohemian and french glass. Watch out for this design because cased glass in good condition is rare naći.Tehnika successfully combine different colors of glass is a difficult task, because they cooled at different rates, so their scarcity.

Glasses colored bowls and clear stems became popular during the late 19th century, and probably are manufactured specifically for white wine, which was very popular in Victorian times. When you walk around auctions and fairs, you may notice quite a number of green and cranberry designs, because these are the most popular. Other colors like yellow, blue and amethyst are much rarer.

If you want to start collecting antique wine glasses you will be spoiled for choice and while you can pay thousands of pounds for a glass there is a lot of antique wine glasses that can be picked up very cheap