In the 1400s Great Britain found the need for a uniform method of selling and taxing spirits.
This brass shot glass is marked a Quarter Gill,or Jill. A larger measure was called a Jack. When King Charles raised tax on the Jack,the Jill cane soon after. Thud born a Nursery Rhyme.
This piece is hard to date. Ot may go back 150 years. Loyds in Liverpool is 164 years old.
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