Have you heard of a Jigger before

A jigger is another word used to describe a shot glass. Traditionally shot glasses where called Jigger because it was given to workers digging canals and it just caught on. Click here for more on shot glass collectibles

It was a means to measure liquor in the early 19th century. It’s a mystery where the term shot glass first appeared in the English Language, but they have been used in Italy for over 200 years.

Originonally called whickey tumblers by US manufacturers, they then started adding etchings and pictures to the outside of the tumblers in the 1900’s.

This was done as a form of advertising and promotion and workrd very well. From a more humourous angle there are a lot of old wives tails surrounding shot glasses many from the cowboy days in the wild west.

One goes that cowboys used to trade their bullets for a shot of whisky. Another tale states that shot glasses where originally used to hold quill pens but later turned into whiskey glasses because writers will get drunk to aid writers block.

But in all seriousness those stories were proved invalid, there’s no real fact supporting these theories but still very interesting. A true historical fact that can be linked back to the origin of shot glasses is to German glass maker Friedrich Schott.

He opened a glass factory with a few colleagues and developed the Schott glass which of course became shot glass in American layman terms. There are so many variations to shot glasses as in size, style, and use which also varies from country to country.

There are even glasses shapped like boots. Shots glasses are awesome at parties and even used as collectibles or parting gift to give guests at you event.

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