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A very interesting set of ten Free Trade wine glasses engraved with watermills, circa 1780 image 1

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A very interesting set of ten Free Trade wine glasses engraved with watermills, circa 1780

15 November 2017, 10:30 GMT

London, Knightsbridge

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A very interesting set of ten Free Trade wine glasses engraved with watermills, circa 1780

In two sizes, with rounded funnel bowls and diamond-faceted stems, the larger wine glasses each engraved with an elaborate flower mill with a large water-wheel, titled above '7-FOOT OVER', the mill owner and a farmer standing on the steps, the reverse with a team of horses pulling a cart loaded with sacks of flour, beneath the slogan 'T0LL FREE', the smaller wine glasses engraved with a similar farmer and cart, running hounds and a windmill, each inscribed 'TOLE.FREE' (sic), 13.2cm-13.4cm high and 11.2-11.4cm high (some feet chips) (10)

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The unpopular tolls charged by landowners and other taxes on the grinding of corn led to an increase in the importation of foreign corn, and ultimately to the campaign for the abolition of the Corn Laws. Some landowners charged increased tolls depending on the diameter of the waterwheels that drove their mills.

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