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Our listed price of $5 is per crystal glass. Currently 2 available. AVAILABLE for pick-up ONLY- NEWSTEAD, Brisbane. These glasses are becoming collectable (amongst the conscious people out there). 

This listing is obviously not about making money at all but for nostalgia. Yes- there was a time when virtually everything we used in our homes was MADE IN AUSTRALIA. I see no reason why this can’t happen again. The Australian government should be giving incentives for Australian enterprise, particularly for items used everyday like this. There is a market for it. Australians with a brain understand that drinking glasses are seldom broken- you might break perhaps one a year. The financial cost of drinking glasses in any household is very little. If one is used up (broken) PER year then the difference between buying a $2 glass and a $25 one would make little difference to a lot of people. There are people who would buy the Australian-made ones (but they don’t really exist!) There is no choice anymore. The thing is, if you pay more for the item, you will value it more and look after it. When something is $2 new, no-one cares whether or not it breaks and ends up as landfill.

Holistically, the difference in financial cost is little with something like drinking glasses being made locally, but the environmental and social cost of supporting an industry that provides new $2 drinking glasses is insurmountable. Cheaper items = more landfill. Items produced overseas = more energy / fossil fuels with shipping. Australians need local enterprise. Australians need the choice to be able to buy new Australian-made products. It is the law for media outlets to provide a certain amount of Australian-made content. Should there not also be a law for retailers to provide an amount of shelf-space for Australian-made products?

THINK GLOBAL – BUY LOCAL. And if you can’t afford AUSTRALIAN-MADE? Simple- buy your drinking glasses from the charity shop or a flea market. I’ve found amazing vintage drinkware in vintage shops over the years- often for $1 and $2 per glass. Thrift shops provide enterprise for locals plus raise funds for various worthy causes.

FACTS TAKEN FROM THE POWERHOUSE MUSEUM WEBSITE (some areas have been re-written though)

https://collection.maas.museum/object/386085

From 1914 this Sydney glass-making company was known as Australian Crystal Glass Company Ltd. The company later became known as Crown Crystal Glass (and then from 1972 to 1988 Crown Corning). Based at Waterloo / Alexandria, Crown Corning was the largest and most successful manufacturer of Australian domestic glassware in the last half of the 20th Century. Many of the company’s award-winning products can still be found in many Australian households and a successful export drive sent Australian glass to many countries including the USA, UK, Netherlands, Germany, and even Scandinavia – itself a major exporter of quality glass. The Powerhouse Museum’s Crown Corning range of glass and its supporting archive of original technical drawings, brochures and ephemera is significant as a record of developing fashion, changing lifestyle, and evolving technical production.

Probably the most memorable Crown Corning production was their re-usable glass containers and drinkware. Vegemite glass tumblers were in nearly every home in the 1970’s and 1980’s. I remember the Monbulk jam containers too (that were a bit fancier). I dare say they too were produced by Crown Corning Ware. These containers were the most environmentally-friendly out of any packaging ever produced and I question why there isn’t a place to take finished-with packages from empty glass jars, plastic bottles to spray packs, even bubble-wrap and foam walls where one can pay a small fee to take these items away and use them again exactly as they are. There are shelves and shelves of containers, bubble-wrap and boxes in the Bargain shops all over Australia- aren’t those items being discarded from Australian households every second of every day ? Why are we using energy to destroy these packages to make them new again from scratch? I don’t see the point. I would certainly go to such a shop to buy the empty packaging I needed (when I needed it) instead of buying it new. (But there is no such shop to go to). I’d love to buy used bubble-wrap and boxes (particularly large ones) from an outlet when I needed them instead of storing this stuff in my garage!

Some information was taken from – https://collection.maas.museum/object/386085

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Crown Corning Ware. NO DAMAGE AT ALL. __________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________ Each of these glasses are HAND-MADE (incredible workmanship!) therefore they all vary slightly in size, weight and capacity (however they are all very close to 14cm in height). (To the naked eye they are all the same height). The capacity of each glass is about 100mls (a standard restaurant serving of wine is 150ml). THESE ARE SMALL FOR WINE GLASSES. Weights of each glass vary from 112 grams to 158 grams though most are around 120. They all look very similar in size- it's the stems that vary in thickness and thus affect the weight. ___________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________      Read my 1200+ ebay feedback comments (ALL for vintage design SALES). This is your guarantee that I strive to describe all my items as accurately as I can and will not stock items unless they are in excellent condition.
NO postage on this item. Pick-up NEWSTEAD, Brisbane.
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