# Pressed glass sugar bowl

> The only green thing in the kitchen, and free with a pound of tea.

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- Made by: Unknown glassworks, Gateshead
- Date: About 1935
- Material: Pressed glass
- Size: 9 cm tall
- Cost new: Sixpence
- Came from: Dorothy Merrin’s house, 2009
- On view: The kitchen, on the table

Pressed glass made pretty things cheap: the pattern was pressed into the hot glass by a mould instead of being cut by hand. This bowl came free with a pound of tea in 1935, according to a note in the account books.

Sugar was rationed from 1940 to 1953, and for those thirteen years the bowl held a week’s ration at a time.