FALLING FAR FROM THE TREE
Idon’t drink champagne very often, but I decided to get a bottle for New Year’s Eve. Then I remembered we had my grandmother Cooke’s Rosepoint crystal in a cabinet, so I got out a champagne flute and drank my champagne in style.
Rosepoint came out in 1934 and it probably wasn’t very expensive, but it is very collectible now. I now know that the glass isn’t called a flute, but a coupe because it’s not tall and slender like a flute is. A coupe is a shallow, broad-bowled saucer shaped stemmed glass which became popular in the 18th century and lasted up until the 1970s.
Rosepoint is American crystal with a pretty detailed English rose pattern etched in the bowl of the glass.
I enjoyed drinking from the coupe so much that I washed six more of them for Mom and Dad and the Burnetts and Griesbachs since they were coming over on New Years Day to eat blackeyed peas and I thought they’d get a kick out of using them too.
Prohibition ended in December of 1933 and my grandmother had more champagne coupes than any other pieces. Dad was born in 1935. I told him he was most likely a champagne baby, and he got a big kick out of that.
I had my evening spent wit h the dogs a lready planned. My parents and the Burnetts decided to go to Schroeder’s in Thorndale for a burger about 6 p.m. and then they met the Griesbachs at Bob and Geri’s house until almost midnight. I didn’t think I was going to make it to midnight but surprised myself by doing so.
The dogs started to go crazy at some point because of the fireworks and gunshots, so I put them inside. So my octogenarian parents were out partying all night and I was at home. Something was wrong with this picture! But that’s the way I had it planned so it was all good.
Hope you all had a happy New Year’s Eve as well.
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