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Street vendors would sell the ice cream in the glass for one penny. The glass was usually made with a thick glass base and a shallow depression in the deceptively thick glass top, in which the ice cream was placed. The customer would lick the glass clean and return it to the vendor, who would reuse it; they were expensive items that vendors did not want to lose. The 'lick' glasses were banned from public use in London in 1898 because of the fear of spread of disease - as the street vendors did not always clean them between customers.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cspan\u003eThe glass on the right has etched around the rim 'Benoit Serres Valence Agen Fruits'. This particular glass was produced in the 1920s period when the company diversified into producing whole prunes preserved in liqueur (Agen is famous for its prunes). This shallow glass would have been used in a bistro to serve one fruit with a little liqueur. 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