Overfarvet snerleglas, ca 1880. Drikkeglas

Overfarvet snerleglas, ca 1880. DrikkeglasHeight 12. 5 cm. The glass has a nice manganese color in daylight it's hard to capture in photos. Snerle glass first appears in Danish glass catalogs in 1867 and disappears during the early 1900s. To remove the grayish tone that glass could have, manganese was often added. This helped to clean the mass and give the glass a whiter color. Sometimes the glass mass was overdyed and then took on a purple or pink hue, like this glass.

when it was discontinued

The glass is mentioned in Holmegaard and Kastrup Glassworks catalogues from 1900 as being a schnapps glass

This gives the glass a hexagonal foot

Frederik d

Dette glas er model nr

Fyens and Kastrup Glasværk begin their production around 1910

For Mylenberg

Grethe Meyer and Ibi Trier Mørch also draw Tribes

a mystery has never been fully solved

but the size is now perfectly suitable for port wine

It has fine lines in the glass from the glassmaker's rod and is cut at the bottom

they were simply given numbers