Legends of faceted glass

It is believed that its creators had Malevich Vera Mukhina, steklovar Yefim Smolin.



Yefim Smolin - steklovar from Vladimir. He assured the king that the glass does not break. Sovereign, empty the cup and threw it on the floor and said, "be a glass!". He broke into oskolochki, but the king was angry, and people later interpreted his call for another - "Glasses beat." But with the time and went to beat the tradition of glass bowls during a feast.



At the end of the war began to produce glasses in many glass factories of the Soviet Union a few hundred million a year. The calculation was simple: two glasses per person. Thick glasses were in every home, in hospitals, canteens, schools, prisons, kindergartens. They were used in the trains, in the street vending gazvody.



September 1 is considered Birthday glass tumbler. Classic faceted glass has a size - 90 mm height, 65 mm in diameter, faces 8 to 17, and a capacity of 200 ml, and if the liquid is poured to the edges, then 250 ml. At the bottom of the glass squeezed its price (usually 7 cents).



The era of cut glass lasts decades and slowly walks away. In place of it is plastic cup. But time is not finished glass tumbler. Faceted glass of still popular as ever. Because it is - a multi-faceted.









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