Glassware 1914

From Jacques Straub, Drinks (Chicago: The Hotel Monthly Press, 1914), pp.13-14.  I am grateful to Brian Rea for a copy of this rare book.

The caption verbatim:

(Glasses drawn to about 1/4 scale.)
1, old fashioned whiskey;
2, highball;
3, whiskey;
4, champagne tumbler;
5, water tumbler;
6, cafe parfait;
7, Collins;
8, lemonade;
9, cut stem cocktail;
10, California cocktail;
11, tall champagne;
12, water goblet;
13, hot whiskey;
14, tall brandy;
15, hollow stem champagne;
16, saucer champagne;
17, pony brandy;
18, beer goblet;
19, egg glass;
20, Ritz champagne;
21, pousse caf;
22, claret; red hock; green hock;
23, creme de menthe;
24, wine;
25, sherry.

There is another page of illustrations of four decanters which I have not reproduced.  With 9, compare Figure 11 (M,SU 120), and in particular sketch 7.  Note the similarity of the bowls and the dissimilarity of the stems.  For the Martini glass to emerge out of these forerunners, the bowl had to become geometrically conical and the stem had to become longer and thinner.  But was it a matter of evolutionary emergence or was it a leap in design?

© 2001, Lowell Edmunds