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- From: wetering@sea.com (B. Van de Wetering)
- Subject: Re: Quotes, quotes, quotes
- Message-ID: <1992Dec23.175257.19394@sea.com>
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- Date: Wed, 23 Dec 92 17:52:57 GMT
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- In article <BzoAv3.4un@dcs.glasgow.ac.uk> jack@dcs.glasgow.ac.uk (Jack Campin) writes:
- ... They're made of copper and brass and
- >hold roughly the volume of a spirit glass; the handle sticks straight up,
- >has a hook at the top, and is a few inches long. They tend to come in sets
- >holding different volumes and labelled "Whisky", "Brandy", "Port" and so
- >on. What I don't know is how they were used - they're too wide to enter
- >the neck of a decanter, and it doesn't seem likely that the gentry ever
- >kept their hooch on the sideboard in an open bucket (somebody got a
- >collection of Hogarth or Rowlandson to check?). ...
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- I suspect they were designed to fit through the bunghole of a keg or barrel,
- the gentry preferring to buy in quantity. Just a thought.
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