Featured are a set of 4 wonderful Vintage Glass Pestles.
- Vintage elegant glass, also called “good glass,” is often hand-pressed, hand-molded, or hand-blown, and frequently features hand-finished bases.
- Elegant glass is made of high-quality glass, has fewer visible seams, and lacks the little
- bubbles and wrinkles found in pieces of Depression glass.
- Extra steps made the difference. For example, after a piece was shaped, it was inserted back into a “glory hole” for fire polishing, which gave it a high gloss.
- Most elegant glass was crystal, but some of it was pastel colored and translucent.
- A pestle is a heavy, blunt tool used to grind up spices or herbs in a container called a mortar. The pestle smashes them up until they’re finely ground.
- Color: These vintage glass pestles are crystal glass.
- Design: one side is flat for smashing and the other end is rounded for grinding, the middle is swirled for mixing
- Set of 4