Glass (for drinking) (Passglas, passglass or pasglass)

Description

This drinking vessel (passglas) is of slightly greenish, heavily seeded nonlead glass. It is blown in a tall, nearly cylindrical form with applied, horizontal glass threads which have been tooled to create narrowly-spaced vertical ridges. The vessel is supported on a tall, widely flaring foot with a folded rim. Passglasses were made from at least as early as the 1500s through the 1800s and also are known in enameled glass versions. They seem to have been used during drinking games. Players laid bets on whether or not they could drink exactly the amount of an alcoholic beverage (such as ale, beer, or wine) included between one pair of the glass's horizontal rings. The glass then was passed to the next imbiber, so they might have a try.