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Mystery Pressed Glass Crown (that glows!)
Glen:
Can anyone help with any information or ideas about a splendid pressed glass Crown that I have recently acquired? I have posted a photo and information about it on my website. If you go to http://www.carnival-glass.net and then click on the article link (centre page) called Mystery Crown in Pressed Glass.
It's a magnificent item, and I've gone through just about every text source I have to no avail. Maybe someone has seen one like it before and can help. And by the way, it glows like crazy under UV light.
Glen
Bernard C:
Glen:
I have seen just two of these, as I recall. Like you, I haven't found any reference to them, nor do I know what event they were commemorating. They are not in either Notley, nor in Strange & Rare.
As they don't seem particularly common, I just wonder if they were Edward VIII souvenirs that somehow got into circulation just before the abdication broadcast on 12 December 1936. Presumably if this is the explanation, the main production stock would have been broken and recycled.
Bernard C. 8)
Frank:
It is a bit difficult to tell which crown it is but I think the band on the lid looks like St Edwards Crown which was rebuilt for QEII coronation. Here are a couple of links which might help you decide. If it proves to match one it would probably have needed Royal approval so that should be traceable.
http://www.crwflags.com/fotw/flags/gb-crown.html
http://www.diggerhistory.info/pages-badges/crowns.htm
Glen:
Bernard and Frank - thank you both so much for your help and advice. I'm checking out your suggestion, Bernard - and I'm following up both the links you gave me Frank (most interesting). Again, thank you so much.
Glen
Bernard C:
More thoughts. If it was Edward VIII (or George VI), then you can eliminate two of the big four British coloured pressed glass factories capable of producing this souvenir in quantity for Empire-wide sales.
Davidson seem to have already had their Edward VIII souvenir worked out, the No. 314 Grecian Loving Cup Rd. No. 816983, registered just three days before the abdication broadcast on 9 December 1936. See http://www.cloudglass.com for the George VI coronation version, sold as a boxed set with plinth. Had Davidson produced this crown souvenir, why was it not registered? Also I am sure that Chris and Val Stewart would have come across some reference to it by now.
It cannot be Bagley as it is not in the photograph of their Edward VIII souvenirs published in a late 1936 PG.
Bernard C. 8)
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