Description

The most famous period of cranberry glass production was in 19th century Britain during the Victorian Era. Legend holds that cranberry glass was first discovered when a noble tossed a gold coin into a mixture of molten glass. Cranberry glass or ‘Gold Ruby’ glass is a red glass made by adding gold salts and colloidal gold to molten glass

Intrigued that so many of our antique glasses are smaller in size we decided to do a bit of research. Amazingly since the 1700s the standard capacity of wine glasses has increased from approx. 65ml to 420ml in the 2000s! If you ask us, a few more refills is worth the beauty.

Pieces bought from L&N have had a previous life, therefore may show signs of wear consistent with use and age