Silver rimmed glass, maker?, use?

They are just under 4" high, the top is just under 3" diameter. Maker may not matter, but just wondering if possible to find out. What are they used for? Thanks for your time.

 

I think they just did it to be different and because it is hard to do, justifying a higher price.

 

sherry.....liquer...?

 

Thank you both Af & Komokwa. Great thoughts, and sherry seems to be the closest. I have about 20 or 30 of them, so hope I can figure it out!

 

throw a party
put out different liquids
see which ones folks choose....
not very scientific..........................but fun !

 

"R" most often list these as liquor cocktails

 

TallCakes is absolutely right (naturally). Think back to the Thin Man movies!

 

Apertif? Might look in to whether or not this is a Dorothy Thorpe design but the silver band looks a bit narrow for her's.

 

Not sherry, cocktails. The sherry glass is tallish and narrow to capture the aroma of the sherry. Who cares what a Pink Lady smells like, (except possibly her husband).

 

The proper shape for a sherry glass is the copita. Nothing else will do.

 

The one shown here would have been a cocktail glass at our house.........if it didn't require a special form for enjoyment/appreciation, it went into one of these..............

My granddad had some glasses he called "copita", but he would only allow single malt scotch in them - something about the nose..........and they had no stem. I'll have to look into that...........Thanks for the memory!


We drank/drink sherry from a stemmed, almost straight sided, open mouthed glass, slightly different from a port glass - probably intended for something else, but that was the rule in our house............

 

You do need a stem for sherry glasses, as otherwise the drink gets too warm. I take my malt in a good cut crystal glass with literally a few drops of water. Your grandfather was using a nosing glass, which is very proper.

 

All I know...is that is TOO DAMNED SMALL for anything I would drink.

 

I find most contemporary glassware too large. Except a pint should be a pint if you want a decent head, but a pilsner will do for an American lager, as it is so tasteless that you have to scarf it down to keep it down. I even think that those large balloon snifters are vulgar - you should savor, not squander, and its difficult to warm that much cognac with your hands.

But modern tastes call for large glasses.....and then all you hear is "Can I have another drink? This one has gotten warm." Well of COURSE it has - you have a pint of vodka in there. Why not put it in a smaller (proper?) glass and have TWO fresh ones?

I guess that is not the American way though. To each his own, I am not criticizing, just observing...........

 

I hear ya....BUT...my drinks never last long enough to get warm !!!!

 

For the life of me, I can not remember whether it was my granddad (who drank what Americans call Scotch Whiskey, and what he just called whiskey) or my step-dad (who was a strict, straight up bourbon man), but one of them could tell if a glass had ever had milk in it. As kids, we would get two glasses (not the same design), fill one with the liquor and one with milk. Drink the liquor, pour the milk down the drain, wash and dry the glasses thoroughly, fill both with liquor and he would taste it and always figured which had had the milk in it...............We had to be careful though to use at least ONE glass that had never had milk in it. When we tried with two glasses that had had milk in them, he got that correct as well. We tried it innumerable times - even setting it up BEFORE he was even in the house.......and when he arrived and taste tested, he figured which was which........to this day I don't know if it was a trick, lucky guesses, or he actually COULD tell the difference..............

Now, if I could only remember which HE it was, I could grow fond of that memory...............

 

You all crack me up!! Thanks for the laughs, I love it!!
Thanks for the wonderful help Tallcakes, Silverthwait, Af, Brad, Mansons, Bear & Janettekay.

 

I'm with Mansons. everywhere I go, restaurant or someone's home, wine is served in what I call a water glass, and no one serves water anymore. Except in pubs, scotch and its relatives arrive in what I know as a double old-fashioned glass. And, again, except in the pubs, the glass is too full.

But somewhere those small wine glasses are being used. I know this because I keep looking for some on eBay, and they keep being bid
out of my price range. As indicated by listing titles, quite a number of them are now called sherries, etc.

(As it happens, two small Wine glasses of Dubonnet Blonde would probably put me to sleep under the escritoire...)

 

I got a full 3 sips of wine out of it last night! That's more than I thought I would get though..

 

um, not to be rude, but wine is not a cocktail, no matter WHAT the grocery store and fashionable sommelier wannabes say. I would never serve wine in that glass........ and wine should be reserved for the table - with good food. Fortified wine is another animal altogether, and there are appropriate glasses for most of them.


and THAT is all I know about wine............my specialty is whine...........