The drinking glasses called "tumblers" owe their name to the fact that they are the successors of the little round silver bowls which were so perfectly balanced that, whichever way they were tipped about on the table, they tumbled into positio7i again and remained with the lini upward.
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Auckland Star, Volume LX, Issue 230, 28 September 1929, Page 12
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