Post #780157 by Hamo on Fri, Sep 29, 2017 5:07 PM

What Steve said. If it isn’t an issue that your glasses don’t match, then thrift stores and flea markets are the way to go. The biggest disadvantage for me to not having identical glasses is I can’t make more than one “up” drink at a time and easily pour them equally into multiple glasses, but it’s only a slight inconvenience. Something else to consider is that older cocktail glasses tend to hold 4-5 ounces, instead of the enormous 8-10 oz ones sold now. Three-ounce cocktails are just about the right amount anyway; you can enjoy two or three cocktails without ending up under the table.

I do have three of these “bamboo” style couples (pictured), which I like. They might be by Libbey.

One style I don’t have (yet) is the Nick and Nora, named for the cocktail glasses used by William Powell’s and Myrna Loy’s characters in “The Thin Man.” They have an elegant, “deco” look about them.

[ Edited by: Hamo 2017-09-29 17:10 ]