Very Rare Bistrot Absinthe Saucer with 30 Centime Price
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Pre 1900 item# 914318
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Richards Antiques
207-563-1964
$110
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Extremely rare French bar saucer with 30 centime price for use under an absinthe glass. There is a green edge with a silver hairline inside. This is a genuine turn-of-the-century saucer or soucoupe from the Belle Epoque when poets and artists drank the addictive wormwood-based drink absinthe which was banned in France in 1915. You sat at the bar and drank, each drink being served on a priced saucer. The saucers were stacked by your place and when you were ready to pay l'addition (the bill), ...click for details
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Absinthe Saucer from French Bar with 60-Centime Price
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Pre 1920 item# 805955
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Richards Antiques
207-563-1964
$60
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Handsome French bar saucer from the absinthe period (pre-1915) with 60-centime price and blue border edged by black hairlines. This is a genuine turn-of-the-century saucer or soucoupe from the Belle Epoque when poets and artists drank the addictive wormwood-based drink absinthe which was banned in France in 1915. You sat at the bar and drank, each drink being served on a priced saucer. The saucers were stacked by your place and when you were ready to pay l'addition (the bill), the barman sim ...click for details
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Absinthe Topette, Antique Bar Item, Held Six Doses
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Pre 1900 item# 788892
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Richards Antiques
207-563-1964
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Antique blown glass topette with six rings from an old French bar. Each ring represented a dose, or one drink, of absinthe, which was diluted with water, often poured over a sugar cube, before drinking. The bar patron was charged for however many doses he or she consumed. This topette was hand blown in heavy lead glass, has a nice polished pontil on the bottom and also has some of the characteristics one finds in hand blown pieces. There are, for example, some bubbles in the glass, one of which ...click for details
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