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Café Glasses

April 3, 2011
16:22 PM

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At a stall in a Vide Grenier in Causse et Veran I saw these two glasses.
They are blown , worn , Café glasses , quite large therefore probably meant for beer but ingraved with a measure which means they were also used for absinthe.
The date probably fron the early 20th Century where they would have been used in Cafés and restaurants.
They were a mis matched pair – but then in the days of hand blowing no glasses were identical.

I asked Madame the price, she told me 50 centime for the two.
I took them.

An hour later in an antique shop in Villeneuve we saw a single similar glass for sale for €25 , a fair price I would say.

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