A Rare Acid-Etched & Frosted Glass Double Hands Dish from The World’s Fair, Boston, by John Ford & Co of Holyrood Glass Works, Edinburgh c.1875 antiques Presenting Colonel Merrill the giant

Presenting Colonel Merrill the giant tortoise

The fielded paneled sides are unusual however and signal a much better quality period painted piece than what one would normally expect

this Union Jack is a well-made piece of patriotism

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A Rare Acid-Etched & Frosted Glass Double Hands Dish from The World’s Fair, Boston, by John Ford & Co of Holyrood Glass Works, Edinburgh c.1875 antiques Presenting Colonel Merrill the giantOrigin: British Period: Mid Late 19thC Provenance: Unknown Date: c. 1875 6 Height: 1. 5 Width: 6. 25 Length: 7. 75 (all at extremities) The fine quality clear frosted and acid etched glass dish crisply modelled in the form of cupped hands or gowpen with a cluster of grapes and leaves at the wrist, sometimes called Queen Victoria's Hands, the base acid etched with the bee case English Registry diamond mark for parcel 8, class 111, for the 25th of