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Trader Vic hot buttered rum pot? Shotgun shell glasses?

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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!

The shot gun shells were manufactured by Imperial Glass in a few sizes and a pitcher. They also did the port and starboard lights glasses.
Looks like there's some for sale/trade on OM.
http://www.ooga-mooga.com/cgi-bin/all/manufacturer.cgi?man_id=25&show=50&details=yes

No idea about the other one. How about pics?

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Here's a Cape Cod firelighter https://ebth-com-production.imgix.net/2015/07/01/18/16/49/37/_MG_1198.jpg?ixlib=rb-1.0.0&w=781&h=855&fit=max&crop=

The "hot buttered rum pot, with poker" pictured in the book, looks like an all-brass version of this: a decorative, bulbous pot on three stubby legs, with thick loops on the sides for the wire bail, a shallow lid with a finial, and a poker consisting of a short, stout rod with a looped handle, having a sphere on the other end. The biggest differences are that it was, I suspect, smaller than a firelighter, and the poker end would not have been porous.

This thread has some info on page one tha may be helpful.

http://www.tikicentral.com/viewtopic.php?topic=34296&forum=5&start=0&91

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