Description
A Collection of Treen and Horn Travelling Drinking Vessels. To include two rare 19th century goblets with screw-off bowls on baluster turned stems; one of boxwood 5” (13 cm) in height, the other sycamore 4” (10 cm) in height. Two 19th century laburnum collapsible travelling cups & covers, the latter inset with boxwood rings and closing tightly over the bases when collapsed, 3?” (8.6 cm) and 3” (7.5 cm) in height [extended]. A 19th century barrel-shaped container for a glass tumbler with ring turned ‘hoop’ decoration to each of the tightly-fitting, pull-apart halves, 3?” (9.7 cm) high*. A late 19th century dark and translucent horn collapsible beaker with incised rings around the rim and incised naive floral decoration to each of the collapsible sections, 5¼” (13.3 cm) high (extended)**. And a pair of late 19th century ‘nesting’ horn beakers, one cream coloured, the other dark grey shaded to cream, with tapering hooped sides separating into three stacking sections. [* for a pair of identical collapsible laburnum travelling beakers see ‘Treen for the Table’ by Jonathon Levi plate 3/56, page 73. ** for two similar but undecorated examples in the Horner’s Co. Collection see ‘Horn Its History and its Uses’ by Adele Schaverin page 145].