Sowerby glass antique sugar bowl

Up for sale is this very rare frosted sugar bowl.Monkey handled dish, with diamond and registration mark 6 March 1876

This was Sowerbys glass first elegant piece they made, so that the poor could also aford to have something stylish.

It has 2 chips at the top rim and a hairline crack.

Here is a few links, there is many more on the internet: http://www.pressedintime.com/sowerby2.htm

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http://rutherfordandson.com/githa-sowerby/the-sowerby-family/

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http://www.pressedintime.com/sowerby.htm