Social Drinking Glass - "Passglas"
Blue Glass Threads (AD 1500, Holland)
Holland, 16th century. The "Passglaset" is an eight- or six-sided glass with a number of regular intervals horizontal placed blue colored glass-threads. The glass was often "optical blown" which means it was preblown in a mould that gives the melted glass a special pattern that remain during the whole glass making. The glass-threads were also often grooved. The "Passglaset" was produced from the 16th century mainly in Central Europe, Bohemia (todays Czeck Republic), Germany and Holland. In Sweden Henrikstorps Glassworks in Skane (south of Sweden) manufactured the "Passglaset" right up to the 18th century. The "Passglaset" was a glass for "social drinking", the distance between the glass threads was that amount you were allowed to drink, before you had to pass on the glass to the next person. Replica of findings in The Castle Fjord, Kalmar, Sweden, from the 16th century.
German or Dutch "Passglas" have been found on the man-of-war ship Wasa and in the Castle Fjord of Kalmar, Sweden.
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