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vathek Posts: 966 Registered: Jun 99	posted 05-01-2003 12:56 PM I've noticed that creamers seem to be among the more common items of holloware (pre 1860) and I'm wondering why I don't see an equal number of sugar bowls, were they not made in roughly equivalent numbers? IP: Logged
Arg(um)entum Posts: 304 Registered: Apr 2002	posted 05-02-2003 12:01 AM When I first saw your post I was reminded of being told in my youth about the tough job earlier generations had chipping sugar off the loaf or block. So I searched around the net but came up with very little; still I got three dates: 1844 - first registration of a patent for sugar cubes with a nice anecdote about the inventor's wife having been injured earlier while chopping off sugar. 1875 - a major new or added factory built in England for the production of cubes. I don't know about granulated sugar but keeping it from lumping probably presents additional problems particularly before air conditioning kept humidity under control. 1925 - some area in eastern Europe finally got sugar cubes. Given that the USA introduced new consumer conveniences generally earlier and more dynamically than the old world, the third quarter of the 19th C. sounds possible. So, maybe people didn't use dainty silver bowls for sugar before it was available in convenient forms, or many got destroyed by people hacking away trying to get the size piece they wanted. Somehow the explanation for your observation may well be provided by either the price of sugar or the form in which it was available or a combination of the two. IP: Logged
Stephen Posts: 625 Registered: Jan 2003	posted 05-02-2003 12:44 PM Also, until 1874, sugar was heavily taxed by the British government. In 1874 the prime minister, William Gladstone, removed the tax and many more British people could then afford sugar. IP: Logged

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