X. JACOBITE, WILLIAMITE, AND HANOVERIAN GLASSES
These are the aristocracy among the wine glasses, goblets, and spirit glasses. They are rare, difficult to find, and costly to buy, but not impossible to come upon by lucky hazard.
THE ROSE GLASSES
JACOBITE GLASS SHOWING THE STUART ROSE: ALSO THE “CENTRAL TUBE” IN THE STEM
The dearest aim of every collector of old wine glasses is to come upon a Jacobite glass. The more sanguine and less strict kind of collector declares himself the owner of a Jacobite example if he possesses a glass engraved with a six-petalled heraldic Stuart rose (one petal for each King or Queen of Stuart blood who actually reigned in England, he says), a large bud (representing the Old Pretender, he explains), a smaller bud (for the Young Pretender), and a bird or (see [illustration], page 20) butterfly (crossing the narrow seas, he explains, to bring the Stuarts back).
JACOBITE GLASS, SHOWING PORTRAIT OF THE YOUNG PRETENDER