Gorm the Old red wine glass
600,00 kr.
made by Holmegaard, who called the glass Skaalform with a square foot, and by Kastrup Glasværk, where the service was called Emma.
The two services can only be distinguished from each other by the shape of the "flower" under the foot. At Kastrup, the flower is more square.
In the late 1920s, glass wholesaler Wiggo Dahl Holmegaard sold a version of the glass called Gorm the Old, and it is under this name that most people know the glass today.
Eventually Holmegaard took over the distribution of this glass and called it Viking. Dear child many names.
Gorm den Gamle is the only Danish-produced glass with a square foot. Precisely because of the square shape, there are almost always chips on the base of the glass. See the pictures.
Height: 12,5 cm
(Source: Exhibition list for the exhibition Danish Snapseglasses 1850-90 (no author's name).
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