Post #759547 by TorchGuy on Tue, Feb 23, 2016 7:13 AM

A friend just gave me the 1970s reprint of Trader Vic's bar book, and it has photos of some of his glassware. I've seen, at TV's restaurants, the ceramic Gun Club Punch mugs, but this book pictures one with a glass shell in a glass base, red or green. Are these rare? Hard-to-find? Expensive? I would love to find a couple, at least one of each color.

I'm also fascinated by the hot buttered rum pot, apparently brass and designed like a "Cape Cod firelighter." The latter has a porous stone ball on a handle, which soaks in kerosene in the pot and can be lit and thrust under logs in a fireplace. This one has a spherical poker, most famous for the Colonial "flip" drinks 'creamed' with a hot iron, traditionally termed a 'flip' or 'loggerhead.' Are these rare, expensive, etc.? Were they used in restaurants and, if so, how was the poker heated? I'd love to find a set of these, too!