Not a daft question at all. If you go to
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dEerW-gsdEg you can see a film of a glass toymaker. I'm sure it was the same in 1841 ie making glass figures. When I first worked at Cadbury's, they had a glass blower (every trade on site in those days) called Bill Blower (!) who made similar figures for those of the staff (in R & D anyway) who got married. It was in the form of a stork ." Tradition" had it that if you broke the stork, then your wife (or you , depending on sex) would get pregnant.
mike