Show off your cool glassware

We'll just have to agree to envy each others vintage loon ware.

 

You need to post a pic then chugs glass is sweet. Then again I hate seeing all these loon glasses

 

...does she have a sister?

 

Here you guys go! http://www.ebay.com/itm/RARE-Cantil..._DefaultDomain_0&hash=item35ca35fac7:rolleyes:

Is there any way to tell if all these "vintage" glasses that are popping up lately are real? I know the brewery has been around for a long time but it just seems like so many different glasses are constantly popping up and they would all be so easy to make fakes of.

 

Twins separated at birth.

 

I can't speak for those listed on eBay. I've been dealing with 2 people. One a really good friend who moved there a couple years ago from San Diego, and the other some old collector who has a bunch of random stuff. I've compared glasses from both people and they're spot on. Quality Italian glass, some even slightly yellow from being so old. Their antique shops and flea markets are flooded with them.

 

I wish I came across some during my brief trip there. Off topic but I'm also curious about putting my wavy hitachino glass up on ebay with an insane reserve just to see how high the price would go.

 

I think it mostly has to do with their now being a market for these glasses. When I first started buying them on Ebay.be, I could get two or three glasses for less than five dollars, rarely if ever was there someone else bidding on them. Even today, I still pay more for shipping a box of glasses than I do for the content.

 

I'm just going to pretend they're all fake until I get some and then they'll be real to me.

 

Yeah, especially for Belgian breweries that have been around (and had a tradition of nice glassware) for awhile, the sheer number of unusual/vintage glasses out there can be... daunting. Economically I kind of doubt anyone is making much fake glassware*, since other than etching and decals, minimum orders for screenprinting are in the 36+ piece range and it seems like it would get noticed if one person was trading/selling that many identical vintage pieces.

Ask where your glasses came from! Then, be a total nerd and attach small tags to all of your not-in-regular-use glasses detailing their specific history. I know I do...

*: All the culprits I can think of offhand are distributors/bars, e.g. the Fantome teku, that weird short Cantillon chalice, the original zig-zag Fantome tulip, etc.

 

My grandmother owned a bar in Germany. My uncle wanted to throw these out.

 

Recent adds (last couple of weeks):
- Dieu Du Ciel (at brewpub)
- Niagara Oast House (at brewery)
- Bellwoods snifter and tulip (at brewpub)
- Bourbon County (via trade)
- Jester King
- Night shift mini wine taster, Night Shift mini snifter, Night Shift wine glass
- Russian River stemware
- Pretty Things wine glass
- Tired Hands stemware

A lot of great adds as of late.
Not chasing those loon walez, but they do look great.

 

IMAG0482 by Mordechai&Mags, on Flickr
Two weeks in Scotland, Belgium, & a side-trip to Koln resulted in this:
Brewdog 2/3 Pint
Brewdog 5 AM Saint Imperial Pint
Quintine/Goliath Mini-snifter
Claichaig Inn Glencairn Crystal Tulip
Cantillon Gold Logo Wine Glass
Cantillon Tumbler
WEST One Pint Cervoise
Brewdog Teku
Westvleteren XII Small Chalice
WEST Teku
Brewdog Abstrakt Tulip
Fruh Kolsch 0.2L Stange

Also, some actual beer:
2 Westvleteren XII
1 Westvleteren 8
1 Black Albert
1 Cantillon Rose de Gambrinus