Quick & Doity

[ged]

Did the era we are playing PotC in have beer mugs made of glass, or was it all clay/wood?

Im making some graphics (surprise surprise), and am not allowed to talk about it, atm, as its gonna be a surprise... hrhrhr...

but i need to know this, to make it right.

help, please!

 

[LordDrow]

Most mugs were either clay or 'tarred' leather.

Cap'n Drow

 

[Petros]

What about pewter?

 

[ged]

darnit i think im fooked <img src="style_emoticons/<#EMO_DIR#>/smile.gif" style="vertical-align:middle" emoid="" border="0" alt="smile.gif" />
glass would look cool.
but clay... meh... well... lets see if i can come up with summat.

or IS glass an option? (it just looks so cool, but on this one, i gotta "keep it real" <img src="style_emoticons/<#EMO_DIR#>/par-ty.gif" style="vertical-align:middle" emoid="" border="0" alt="par-ty.gif" /> )

 

[LordDrow]

Pewter would have been an option, but usually that would have been in an upper class bar if I remember correctly. Pewter was horribly expensive back then, and would have been found usually in places that say officers and upper crust patrons would be.

You might want to check my facts, but I'm fairly sure I'm correct.

Cap'n Drow

 

[Black Bart]

Glass was used in this period(in fact its very ancient in origin - look at the middle east/far east they've been using it for thousands of years), particualry in medicines, tinctures etc. Glass had been around in europe from before the Roman times, although the romans were the first mass-producers of it in western europe. It had been traded in pre-roman times, but if i remember my ceramics schooling, it wasn't produced on a comercial scale in europe pre-roman. What i'm not sure of is the historic dates for the beer glass......hold on.

<a href="http://www.glassonline.com/infoserv/history.html" target="_blank">http://www.glassonline.com/infoserv/history.html</a>

<a href="http://www.beerstein.net/articles/bsb-1.htm" target="_blank">http://www.beerstein.net/articles/bsb-1.htm</a>

That last one is a very hefty read <img src="style_emoticons/<#EMO_DIR#>/wink.gif" style="vertical-align:middle" emoid="" border="0" alt="wink.gif" />

"As for individual beer vessels, up to the 1400s, well-to-do Germans had pewter beakers. A few of the wealthiest even had silver vessels. These metal containers, and those made of glass, remained too expensive for general use or for large containers."

"Although glass beer beakers were used in Roman times, the Church viewed glassmaking as heathenish and suppressed its production during the Middle Ages. The art of making and enameling glass was not relearned by the Germans until the late 1500s. These early enameled items were mainly beakers and pokals.

A few engraved glass steins began to be used in the 1700s. However, partly because of their fragility and partly because their costliness limited the number produced, not many of these early glass steins still exist. The color of this glass was almost always clear, which required some special efforts to achieve because the usual Waldglas of the time was partially made with wood ashes that caused a definite greenish tinge. The use of clear glass would seem to support the theory that an important feature of the early glass stein was to show off the rare clarity and color of the costliest beers that were brought from some distance. "

some relevant bits from the article - in short yes you could find beer-glass in this period, it was just very rare compared to stoneware+wooden+even the more expenisve pewter mugs.
I think glass is ok for what you want - it did exist <img src="style_emoticons/<#EMO_DIR#>/wink.gif" style="vertical-align:middle" emoid="" border="0" alt="wink.gif" />