Physical DescriptionColorless glass, golden metal, and brown wood; (tumblers) machine-made, with gilding and acid etching; (caddy) assembled from prefabricated parts by welding and with rivets. (A-H) Eight identical tumblers. Rim plain; wall straight, slightly tapered; base thick, with small foot ring. Gilded and acid-etched decoration: at rim, continuous band of gilding; occupying most of wall, bordered above and below by broken band of gilding, continuous frieze of gilded leaves on matte (acid-etched) background that is continuous except for one narrow vertical strip with jagged edges and for partial unetched silhouettes behind leaves; leaves resemble those of six North American trees and are (clockwise from unetched strip): pair of oak, single ash above pair of beech, single hop tree above single maple, and pair of beech above single chestnut or buckeye; in each case, part of leaf is glossy and part matte. Raised mark on underside of base: "L" (A-G only). (I) Caddy, rectangular, shaped like basket, with stand and frame. Stand consists of two identical rods of circular cross section bent into roughly rectangular shapes, with ends welded together; rectangles are inclined, one from left to right and other from right to left, and shorter sides are fastened together with two rivets which are marked with raised "L" on outer ends; lower long sides form base of stand, while upper long sides are bent into four scallops to retain tumblers, which rest on base. Frame is vertical and consists of two identical rods of circular cross section, flattened at lower end and attached to stand with rivets mentioned above, and bent at upper end to form horizontal crossbar which steps up at center; ends of rods concealed and attached by wooden handle; frame is reinforced by two horizontal struts which separate tumblers.
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