In beautiful amethyst, this wine glass is one of around 180 examples of coloured glass in the Harris collection. Most of these came from of a Manchester-based collector, Mrs Laura Seddon (1910-1995). Seddon was born in Oldham and studied mathematics at Cambridge. She was an enthusiastic collector of not just glassware – but also historic greetings cards. When her glass collection came to the Harris in 1980 she noted: ‘As a Lancastrian, I am rather pleased that a northern museum should get a collection of English glass that, as far as it goes, will be unmatched outside of London’.