Living as we did in Waterford for twenty years there was no way we could not become familiar with it’s Crystal.
I am not the greatest fan of the elaborate and complicated cuts of Waterford in its recent hayday , finding it a bit overcomplicated and fussy.
I am however a great fan of glass cut at its simplest as Waterford did with its Sheila range and also with Curraghmore.
Over the years I have gathered some of these classics, the cut was not of course invented by Waterford , it is classic Georgian wedge cut designed to simply divide natural light prismatically.

This morning was my time for one of my Chambre d’Hote chores, the polishing of the glasses and the cleaning of the glass shelves.
While I was doing this I lined up all by glasses with I call the Sheila cut.

First is a Sheila Champagne flute , next to it is a similarly cut English (I think ) Georgian cut glass, bought in Devon, which I love because it was broken but the owner valued it so dearly that he mended it with a rather crude rivet down its stem , next is a Waterford Sheila Claret.
Next at the back is a similarly mended wine glass , this time bought in Languedoc so most likely French , again crudely mended with what looks like a knob from a cupboard door.
In front of this are two little Curraghmore Liqueurs from Waterford.
After these is one of my favourites, a deceptively simple Sheila tumbler or Whiskey Glass , deceptive because these cuts were so simple that they could only be made into flawless glass , the more fussy cuts could cut away any imperfections or bubbles in the blowing.
The last two are the strangest , even though these are identical to the Sheila Champagne Goblet they are not at all. We bought them in an antique shop in Florence in Italy about 15 years ago so I can only assume them to be Italian.