© 2007 A Beer Glass Collector

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This glass came from Hoskings junk shop, in the Narrows, Totnes. A tad cynical but obviously true!

I guess this could be said to be a long time in gestation but two things have induced the birth. The first is, of course, digital photography and the Internet and the second was a visit to
The Pig’s Nose in South Devon in the summer of 2007
(see ‘Memoirs of a collector’ | Glass Nine).

Over the last forty odd years I have collected a number of mass produced, moulded beer glasses* verified and stamped for the licensed trade.

Here, I want to celebrate these survivors of a hard life. We’ve all heard the crash of broken glass in pubs and a pub make-over generally means out goes anything old fashioned and in comes sparkling new stock.

Beer glasses in houses or found in junk or charity shops were once liberated from someone’s local as a sentimental souvenir or simply for drinking at home before beer glasses were sold in shops and supermarkets.  This is, of course, in spite of the sign I remember years ago:

But let’s congratulate the liberators because without them these jewels in the crown of our pub history would have gone into landfills or into the recycling skips.

IF YOU NEED GLASSES GO TO AN OPTICIAN. DON’T TAKE OURS.