Posted 16 years ago
Uranium222
(8 items)
Hi, This One Had Me Baffled For A While Even With The Writing & Engraved Picture I Couldn't Find Anything ... I Assumed This Was A Wine Goblet But It Turned Out To Be A Mineral Water Goblet From Pyrmont, Germany ... The Writing Says Dunst Hohle Or Gas Grotto Which Is A Mineral Water Spring ... See The Page I Found In A Book From 1838 ... It's 5.5" Or 14cm Tall & Emerald Or Apple Green Uranium/Vaseline Glass ... The Stem Is Hollow & All Sides Cut & Polished ... Cheers Mark
Ps ... Click On The Pics For A Bigger View ...
nice detective work - how did you find this book? seem like kind of a very early promotional give away item...
Hi Potrero, I Eventually Found The Book With Dunst Hohle Online But It Was Only After Remembering Reading A Real Book By Richard Sibbs From 1633 That I Realized The S's Were Written As F's ... So I Finally Got The Spelling Wright & Found It ... I'm Assuming It's Quite Old Then But Really Have No Other Reference ... Translating It From German To English Didn't Help ... Dunst Is German For Mist Or Haze & Hohle Is Hole Or Hollow But It Made No Sense Until I Found The Book Online & It All Became Clear ... The Book Is ...
A hand-book for travellers on the continent: being a guide through Holland ...? - Page 343
John Murray (Firm) - Europe - 1838 - 511 pages
http://books.google.com.au/books?id=F19HAAAAYAAJ&pg=PA343&dq=dunst+hohle&cd=1#v=onepage&q=dunst%20hohle&f=false
Cheers Mark
very impressive detective work!!!