Rolling Pin. White blown glass. Painted decoration.... Lot 19

Rolling Pin. White blown glass. Painted decoration. "A present from HARTLEPOOL". The French and English pavilions symbolize "l'Entente Cordiale". Very nice condition. Mid-19th-century England. Length: 33.5 cm. Note: Rolling pins have the general shape and English name of rolling pins but they are not. They were made of glass or blown glass paste, to be offered by the sailors, before they set out to sea, to their wives, their fiancés, their mothers, their sisters, all those who were loved. Bristol was famous for its glassmakers. They certainly produced all the deep blue Rolling Pins, a colour they had invented and which others could not reproduce. This typically English practice, which took place between the 1850s and 1900s, meant that at the sight of a rolling pin, the person to whom it had been given would have an affectionate thought for the sailor who was at sea. The rolling pins were painted or decorated with transfers featuring garlands of flowers, flags, ships and other scenes of happiness that the donor missed. They always carried a mailing that was usually personalized: "Forget me not", "For my sister", "Love and be happy", "When you see remember me", "The ocean the sailor's home"...