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Decorative coloured drinking glasses are known as Carnival Glass.

With plain bowl and air twist stem.

With engraved decoration and opaque twist stem.

Glasses can be made to sit on the nose, without earpieces. Such glasses are known as pinces-nez – literally ‘nose pinchers’.

Bottles like this are often found with holes in a similar place. Recent research has suggested that the holes were made by collectors who broke off the seals on bottles as the broken areas correspond to where seals would have been located.

Engraved with the Jacobite rose and a butterfly, and having an opaque twist stem.

Engraved with the Jacobite rose and having a plain stem.

Glass slides with images painted on them, which were projected large by shining a light through the slides using an early form of projector.

From the soda water supplier William Mayor of Silver Street, London.

With engraved decoration of flowers and a butterfly, and an opaque twist stem.

With a knopped stem and large bowl engraved with a coat of arms and initials.

With an air twist stem, the bowl is richly engraved with hops and barley.