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<p>[QUOTE="Ce BCA, post: 9769304, member: 18716"]It's a glass stirrup cup, older ones often came in leather pouches. They have been around since Georgian times and have been reproduced ever since. In the 80's they came into fashion for bbq's and you would set the glasses in a bucket of sand.</p><p><br /></p><p>There are also stories of them being used at coaching inns for short stops where the horses were being changed - so the drinker couldn't set the glass down and forget about it.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>
[QUOTE="Ce BCA, post: 9769304, member: 18716"]It's a glass stirrup cup, older ones often came in leather pouches. They have been around since Georgian times and have been reproduced ever since. In the 80's they came into fashion for bbq's and you would set the glasses in a bucket of sand. There are also stories of them being used at coaching inns for short stops where the horses were being changed - so the drinker couldn't set the glass down and forget about it.[/QUOTE]
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