We were sorting boxes of future stock today. It’s amazing how many part sets and oddments we came across… cutlery, tea & coffee sets and lots of drinking glasses.
They’re mainly transfer printed tumblers for water, fruit juice, milk etc.
They date from the 1950s to the 1970s…
….and there are some fantastic designs amongst them – atomic influence, stylised figures, geometric patterns and flower power.
We’ll have to be patient to complete sets of the same design – although we also like the idea of putting some ‘mix & match’ sets together. The various shapes, colours & patterns look great together on a shelf.
Here are a few of the sets that have passed through the shop…
…and some that are currently for sale.
We’ve been concentrating on tumblers in this post – but as we’re talking glasses, we’ll just show you this beauty!
Having had a spate of broken wine glasses of late, we were very pleased to come across a few of these fantastic, futuristic 60s glasses recently – with a lovely bubble detail in the stem. They’re very fragile, but we’ll try to be more careful in future!!
Some beautiful patterns here, I especially like the pink/yellow/black flower ones. I think it would be a great idea to sell a mix of vintage tumblers, why not? An assortiment of vintage plates always looks nice.
Actually, you'll be surprised how glasses look as decors. After all, the same things have been done with plates. I'm sure these glasses will do very well in your shop.
ooh- loving some of the things on this blog!
dallas
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the first photo is my fav
oh!! LOVE the glasses! All of them!