Here are three souvenir drinking tumblers from the Glasgow Empire Exhibition of 1938. One has a red printed image of the Tower of Empire or Tait's Tower. On offer is also one made later for the Festival of Britain in 1951 - it has an image of Big Ben and the Houses of Parliament on the reverse.
These would have been purchased by visitors to the site - and some were also engraved with the names of buyers or their friends on the back. They are of a regular shape - these ones are all roughly about 4 1/2 inches in height - and with a diameter at the top of 2 3/4 inches (11 x 7 cm). The glass is quite fine - and the decoration is an applied white opaque transfer image showing popular sites you could visit at the showground.
Given that these rather delicate tumblers are now 85 years old it is remarkable that they have survived. Many have been broken over the decades and they are now getting rather hard to find - especially like my ones - which have no chips or cracks - and the images are all still intact.
This lot is being sold as a job lot of three tumblers - a nice set as all the images are different. I am pricing them at just under £14 for each glass and rounded down. The Festival of Britain one is £10 - all are offered at a fair price - and your postage will only be £4.95 with Royal Mail Recorded Delivery. Probably UK posting only - as they are quite fragile items to ship further afield.
Taken photographs for your inspection. They are Code H selection - the ones in the photographs are the ones that will be sent to you.