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Glass Toy Maker

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lowe1965

proper brummie kid
Hi
This may sound like a daft question but does anyone know what a Glass Toy Maker produced around 1840/50

Thanks Lowie
 
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
 
I remember those glass ducks or emus that used to swing to and fro and dipped their beaks in a glass of water ?
 
Bill Blower? You're pulling my leg!!
mikejee said:
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
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