![]() ![]() ![]() ) Simon was very excited about the Kant glass, because of its rarity and widened his research, making contact with Marianne Motherby in Berlin. (now Kaliningrad, Russia, it was Kant’s home all his life. This glass carried an engraved inscription dated 1763 with the names of Immanuel Kant and six others, four of whom were from Hull either on business in, or resident at, Konigsberg, then in Prussia. In responding I mentioned another Georgian drinking glass that had come to my attention as the result of an enquiry a couple of years earlier from a German student who was researching the philosopher Immanuel Kant. ![]() Simon was seeking information on the Burtons. He is a collector of, and writer on, Georgian drinking glasses, and he had recently purchased a glass engraved with the arms of the Burton family of Hotham Hall. Early in the first ‘lockdown’ the society received an enquiry from Simon Wain-Hobson, a leading virologist working at the Pasteur Institute in Paris. ![]()
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