A Rare Acid-Etched & Frosted Glass Double Hands Dish from The World’s Fair, Boston, by John Ford & Co of Holyrood Glass Works, Edinburgh c.1875 sub-Furniture- Boxes & Luggage The original purpose of the

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now near antique

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A Rare Acid-Etched & Frosted Glass Double Hands Dish from The World’s Fair, Boston, by John Ford & Co of Holyrood Glass Works, Edinburgh c.1875 sub-Furniture- Boxes & Luggage The original purpose of theOrigin: British Period: Mid Late 19thC Provenance: Unknown Date: c. 1875 6 Height: 1. 5 Width: 6. 25 Length: 7. 75 (all at extremities) The fine quality clear frosted and acid etched glass dish crisply modelled in the form of cupped hands or gowpen with a cluster of grapes and leaves at the wrist, sometimes called Queen Victoria's Hands, the base acid etched with the bee case English Registry diamond mark for parcel 8, class 111, for the 25th of