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Flip Glasses
Most flip glasses are large, holding up to a quart of liquid or even more, and glass artists didn’t hesitate to display their delightful and considerable talents on these generous surfaces. Flips were either free-blown and shaped with handheld tools while the glass was still molten, or they were blown into molds. The molds produced glasses with three-dimensional overall patterns such as Sunburst, Daisy in the Square, Diamond Diapering, and Vertical Paneling. The glasses were cylindrical (often with covers) or they had gently flaring sides. Flips were produced well into the 19th century in shades of amethyst, green, amber, and blue, but more commonly in the clear, gleaming flint or lead glass that lent itself to engraving, enameling, and other surface adornment.
Collectors and admirers of the beautiful form known as the flip glass surely must be struck by the jarring contradiction between this graceful, delicately wrought vessel and the spicy beer-and-spirits beverage with which it is associated. To create the necessary froth for the ruddy brew called “flip” that was popular from the second half of the 17th century until about 1810, early Americans would heat a poker red-hot and plunge it into mugs of flip.
Judging from early records, drinkers of 200 years ago may not have known this tumbler by the name collectors later gave it. Back then, a flip glass probably held a much less hazardous drink such as sangaree or lemonade—if it held anything at all. Flip glasses were often commissioned as presentation pieces and were kept on display as evidence of the social and economic position of their owners.
Collectors and admirers of the beautiful form known as the flip glass surely must be struck by the jarring contradiction between this graceful, delicately wrought vessel and the spicy beer-and-spirits beverage with which it is associated. To create the necessary froth for the ruddy brew called “flip” that was popular from the second half of the 17th century until about 1810, early Americans would heat a poker red-hot and plunge it into mugs of flip.
Judging from early records, drinkers of 200 years ago may not have known this tumbler by the name collectors later gave it. Back then, a flip glass probably held a much less hazardous drink such as sangaree or lemonade—if it held anything at all. Flip glasses were often commissioned as presentation pieces and were kept on display as evidence of the social and economic position of their owners.
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