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<p>[QUOTE="afantiques, post: 11120, member: 25"]It has the official Victorian marks for a pint mug, and this means that it was used in a pub (Public house, tavern or saloon for the colonists) as pub glasses are to this day. They have to have the official weights and measures stamp or etching to be used to serve beer. No private owner would have a mug stamped like this unless they pinched it from the pub. (we used to have pub very near the house and drinkers would throw empty pint glasses in our garden. They stocked the kitchen and we still have a few unbroken over 20 years.)</p><p><br /></p><p>Excuse the aside, old men ramble.</p><p><br /></p><p>Your DI Ely marks probably means it came from Ely, in the Fens, and may have belonged to a pub called the Drovers Inn or similar, there would be no need for a full name since Ely in the mid 19th C was not huge, a stamped initial would be all it would need to find its way to the appropriate hostelry, and also prevent its use in another since the first customer to be served with it would say, "Hoi, you nicked this from the Duchess Inn." And probably "Gissa nother pint and I'll not be after telling em." </p><p><br /></p><p>If you can trace a pub or hotel in 19th C Ely with the initial DI, money is on you having pinned it down.</p><p><br /></p><p>I really don't think it belonged the famous Detective Inspector Ely of Scotland Yard, who in the late 19th C. almost cracked the Jack The Ripper case.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>
[QUOTE="afantiques, post: 11120, member: 25"]It has the official Victorian marks for a pint mug, and this means that it was used in a pub (Public house, tavern or saloon for the colonists) as pub glasses are to this day. They have to have the official weights and measures stamp or etching to be used to serve beer. No private owner would have a mug stamped like this unless they pinched it from the pub. (we used to have pub very near the house and drinkers would throw empty pint glasses in our garden. They stocked the kitchen and we still have a few unbroken over 20 years.) Excuse the aside, old men ramble. Your DI Ely marks probably means it came from Ely, in the Fens, and may have belonged to a pub called the Drovers Inn or similar, there would be no need for a full name since Ely in the mid 19th C was not huge, a stamped initial would be all it would need to find its way to the appropriate hostelry, and also prevent its use in another since the first customer to be served with it would say, "Hoi, you nicked this from the Duchess Inn." And probably "Gissa nother pint and I'll not be after telling em." If you can trace a pub or hotel in 19th C Ely with the initial DI, money is on you having pinned it down. I really don't think it belonged the famous Detective Inspector Ely of Scotland Yard, who in the late 19th C. almost cracked the Jack The Ripper case.[/QUOTE]
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