Topic: 1904 Powell, St Louis Exposition

[Frank]

BLOWN TABLE GLASS
BY HARRY J. POWELL, A. & C.
267.
a. Dented goblet with three-strand leg made in glass of same chemical nature as Venetian glass.
b. Beaker with glass " tears," engraved design based on the Crown Imperial Lily.
c. Decanter designed from a Florence flask ; the enamel " pulled " threading and glass twist on the neck to represent the wicker covering and handle.
d. Decanter mounted with hammered silver; blister pearls are on the body and stopper.
e. Decanter based on the drawing of a vase in a picture by Hugo Van der Goes, in the Uffizi Gallery.
f. Two handled vase with thread and prunts, with an engraved design based on the " King's Cup Flower."
g. Goblet with prunts on triangular twisted stem.
EXECUTED BY MESSRS. JAMES POWELL AND SONS

image at http://digital.library.umsystem.edu/cgi/t/text/pageviewer-idx?sid=61f9b80bbc838b255865415901993412&idno=lex022&c=lex&cc=lex&q1=glass&seq=266&view=image

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ROYAL COMMISSION FOR THE St. Louis International Exhibition 1904

THE BRITISH SECTION

[WhatHo!]

WhatHo! Here is a link to the actual picture,

http://digital.library.umsystem.edu/t/text/gifcvtdir/lex022/lex022p0260.jpg

[Patrick]

Hi Wolfie,
 That is brilliant...................

Now we can see what the description is referring to.............

Regards,
            Patrick.

[johnphilip]

Oh no i cant .... can you ?

[David E]

2nd link appears to be duff - use Frank's link, then go to the next page.

[Patrick]

How about this....................

http://digital.library.umsystem.edu/t/text/gifcvtdir/lex022/lex022p0260.jpg

[johnphilip]

One more try Patrick then you go to jail .

[Frank]

It is probably a temporary cache image that stays for the length of the session hence both Patricks links are the same but only work temporarily. Whereas my link interrogates the database directly and generates the page and images for the session. It could also fail eventually in which case goto http://digital.library.umsystem.edu/ and use the source given after the link in my post to search

[Patrick]

Hi John,

I think Frank has answered the question.................
 I am going to disable my cookies, reboot and then stand on my head...............

Regards,
                Patrick..

or maybe have another glass.

[Frank]

Standing on head sounds wise. HTML5 is trying to oust Flash... but has brung along the usual expected headaches.

Programmer "Why do people do that?"
People "Why fix it if it ain't broke"
Programmer "Why do people think that? Microsoft broke the web. Linux rules"
People who use Linux "Linux sucks but at least it is not MS, but I have Microsoft installed too in case I need to do serious stuff."
Programmer "Duuh. But why do you want to do those things?"

A real conversation with a developer of major software:

Why do you want to use quotes in a title?

Because it is a published work and the title contains them.

But it is bad practise as these are reserved characters (for programming language functionality)

Yes but the world existed before computers. It developed and evolved a language to convey information. When computer languages became user friendly they knew 26 letters. It took them more than ten years to wake up to the fact that there was a world outside America and that used at least 27 letters.

We have subroutines for other languages....

Hello.... books can quote different languages within their body text.

Why? People might not understand.

Because they need to use quotes in titles.