They’re both annealing shears, caused when the glass isn’t cooled down properly on making and can show up many years later. Some weights literally...
Cheers! Colour and rim looks right for them.
Empoli is tough stuff, I’ve had a fair few seventies bits which looked totally clean on the base.
Aseda Glasbruk.
I find old auction catalogues very useful.
Our AR does tend to pick experts who are serious specialists in one field. Serrell on Worcester for example, McConnell the Mad on glass, John...
You do get some older cased bohemian glass. And mould blown too.
I do wonder whether these little things were made almost en masse, and then modified for purpose.
I bet yours is a genie bottle.
Thicker veneer = older. Hand cut. I’d think Georgian. The interior paper looks period, not sure the flock is. Good old lock too. I think the inlay...
We do see quite a few! I’d think walnut, too.
Yup!
Might be Stuart.
That looks Empoli made.
I do think we have better more specialist experts. mind you, I do shout at Bargain Hunt rather a lot. One of their “experts” said a piece of...
That hole is far too small for nineteenth century string.
Box is mid to late nineteenth.
I’ve several like this, never pinned down the origin, but the style, length and clasp are typically fifties,
https://www.londonfine.co.uk/products/antique-pharmacists-medicine-cup-english-glass-apothecary-measure-victorian...
Apothecary or medicine set, yes, and the ones I’ve had were late nineteenth or early twentieth.
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