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Engineering Collection Glassware by Ruckl Crystal.

The ruckl crystal glassworks in the Czech Republic manufactures an extensive range of cut 24% leaded crystal in a wide variety, from the simple to the extremely complex, with gilt, hand painting and sandblasting.
Inspired by the sometime archaic-seeming world of the engineer, each piece in the the engineering collection is so named for the etched designs on all the pieces involving the dimensions and spec's of each piece.
The engineering collection also includes three additional lines: involute gearing, basic quotation, and the splined shaft designs.

Alessi Cocktail shaker.

This cocktail shaker from Alessi is the epitomy of 1920's style. The design is a contrast of forms - it has a large spherical body and slender handle. It's made from polished stainless steel and forms part of the 'Alessi Officina' collection which includes their most sophisticated, experimental and innovative products, as well as small-scale and limited productions.

Initially attributed to Marianne Brandt (Bruckmanns Silber Lexicon, Munich 1982, and H. Wikmann, Die Neue Sammlung, Munich, 1995), subsequent studies by Peter Hahn, director of the Bauhaus Archiv, this cocktail shaker has since been attributed to the Swedish designer Sylvia Stave and was manufactured between 1920 and 1930 by the C. G. Hallbergs company of Stockholm.

Old Wormwood Recipes

Wormwood Bitters

Take two gallons of rectified spirits, two drachms of the oil of Seville orange-peel, one drachm of oil of caraway, one drachm of oil of wormwood, a quarter of an ounce of almond cake,half an ounce of corainder-seed, half an ounce of Virginia snake-root. one quart of clarified sugar, and fill it up with water: steep the coriander-seed, almond cake, and Virginia snake- root, in the spirits for three or four days, and kill the oils, as before mentioned in spirits of wine.

The Wholesale and Retail Wine and Spirit Merchant’s Companion by Joseph Hartley (1839)

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