A Rare Acid-Etched & Frosted Glass Double Hands Dish from The World’s Fair, Boston, by John Ford & Co of Holyrood Glass Works, Edinburgh c.1875 sub-Art & Sculpture Original labels read CRETAE

Original labels read CRETAE

participants were asked to throw balls into Merlin’s agog gaping chasm in exchange for goldfish and he could be put to good use back in the public domain as intended

jacconettes and fancy goods

He ate little fishes

and there is some attractive wear to the paintwork

A Rare Acid-Etched & Frosted Glass Double Hands Dish from The World’s Fair, Boston, by John Ford & Co of Holyrood Glass Works, Edinburgh c.1875 sub-Art & Sculpture Original labels read CRETAEOrigin: British Period: Mid Late 19thC Provenance: Unknown Date: c. 1875 6 Height: 1. 5 Width: 6. 25 Length: 7. 75 (all at extremities) The fine quality clear frosted and acid etched glass dish crisply modelled in the form of cupped hands or gowpen with a cluster of grapes and leaves at the wrist, sometimes called Queen Victoria's Hands, the base acid etched with the bee case English Registry diamond mark for parcel 8, class 111, for the 25th of