Kiddush cup use - I may have made a mistake!

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I'm taking part in the Reddit secret Santa exchange, and my giftee is interested in antiques and cocktails. I thought it would be a good idea to combine the two and give her an antique cocktail shaker or glass.

I found a brass cup at Oxfam this weekend and thought it would be perfect for a Moscow Mule, but when I googled it (brass cup) I realised it's probably an old Kiddush cup which is used in Jewish Shabbat rites. It has the same etchings on it as cups that came up in my google search.

I feel like it would be wrong to send it to someone to use for cocktails. I'm not Jewish myself but I would not want to offend anyone who is.

Can anyone confirm?

Edit: Photo attached of the cup I bought.

Peregrinus

A kiddush cup is tradtionally silver, but it could be made of brass (or anything else). Engraving tends to be abstract or geometric or involve Hebrew writing, rather than being figurative, whereas the cup you have seems to me to involve an ears-of-wheat motif.

It could be a kiddush cup but, if so, a slightly unusual one. If it's a kiddush cup it will have a capacity of between 90 and 160 mls. If the capacity is well outside that range, it's not a kiddush cup; inside that range and it could be.

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Peregrinus wrote: »

A kiddush cup is tradtionally silver, but it could be made of brass (or anything else). Engraving tends to be abstract or geometric or involve Hebrew writing, rather than being figurative, whereas the cup you have seems to me to involve an ears-of-wheat motif.

It could be a kiddush cup but, if so, a slightly unusual one. If it's a kiddush cup it will have a capacity of between 90 and 160 mls. If the capacity is well outside that range, it's not a kiddush cup; inside that range and it could be.

It's around 160mL. I didn't measure it and it's already wrapped. The cup I saw online was being sold and the seller listed it as a Kiddush cup but the other ones I saw in my google search were silver, as you say. I think I'll be ok using it as a gift.

Thanks for the reply!

recedite

I don't think its Jewish. What does it say along the bottom there, is it "6 Parts" ?
Is that a reference to the 6 part satanic mass?

looksee

recedite wrote: »

I don't think its Jewish. What does it say along the bottom there, is it "6 Parts" ?
Is that a reference to the 6 part satanic mass?

Probably EPNS. Or a cocktail recipe.

Peregrinus

looksee wrote: »

Probably EPNS. Or a cocktail recipe.

Unlikely to be EPNS if, as stated in the OP, the cup is brass. Even less likely to have anything to do with satanic masses, frankly.

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I never even noticed the E.....whatever it is. I already shipped it so can't look again.