(1) JOEY, (2) THISTLE FUDDLING, (3) BRISTOL COACHING, AND (4) JOEY GLASSES
5. SPIRIT GLASSES AND CORDIAL GLASSES
These are small in bowl and short in stem, the bowl is often straight-sided, and the stem is usually drawn, and often cut. But there are many with drawn bowls and plain stems. A “thistle” glass of this kind is specially valued. Often the bowl is engraved. Cordial glasses may have long stems.
6. COACHING GLASSES AND FUDDLING GLASSES
These are glasses which have no feet: they were used at one draught of the liquor in them. I bought a Bristol opal glass of the kind for 6d., but these are excessively rare. Almost as rare are the plain glasses, with cut stems, used in coaching days. When the stage coach paused at an inn, a waiter came out with a tray of footless glasses, each resting on its bowl; the traveller took one up, inverted it into the proper position, held it out to the bottle or decanter in the waiter’s hand, drank, and set the glass down upon its bowl again. A fuddling glass was a variety of coaching glass used indoors, for a rapid dram; a “thistle” glass of this kind was favoured in Scotland.
(1) DRAM, (2) TOASTMASTER, (3) OAKLEAF, AND (4) HOGARTH GLASSES