Retro drinking glasses
made in Australia, c. 1950s
These funky glasses come in their original box. The cartoon images illustrate the hilarity that is the game of lawn bowls; the kitsch cartoons are somewhat offset by the lustre glass and the gold rings to the base and rim.
I can’t find a manufacturer for these glasses, nor the ‘artist’ –but can verify that the cartoon images were made in Australia. Who else would find the comic potential of a chicken on the green, or taking a golf club to the bowl? And this was clearly before women were allowed into the bowling club – gotta be the 50s!
For the lawn bowler in your life, or the collector of retro drinking glasses.
For sale: $AUD65
So glad you posted this! I just finished an appraisal of an estate that had a collection of vintage glasses from around the same era (but not as cute as these). I was surprised at how hard it was to find good comparables.
kirsten- how funny. i haven’t seen many intact sets of these glasses- maybe they got used everyday and so didn’t make it to the 21st C? i do love yor blog and your valuation commentary.
Fancy, women being allowed onto the green!
nowadays you can go bare-foot beer bowling! i love it. beer – taking the edge of my crappy bowling skills- and nice cool grass underfoot. but alas it wasn’t always so…