Topic: Castle Crystal Catalogue - Wine services

[Anne]

And a wee bit more... The Denholm Manufacturing Company Ltd went into voluntary liquidation in 1932 and was finally wound up in 1933 [Source: London Gazette, 8th April 1932 and 24 March 1933] so that gives us an end date for them!

Or maybe not..   ... as a search of the National Archives gives the following result:
Reference:   BT 31/32646/200510
Description: No. of Company: 200510; Denholm Manufacturing Company Limited. Incorporated in 1924. Dissolved in 1948.

So they appeared to have been a short-lived company... unless someone knows better!

[Paul S.]

amazing work Anne  -  can't imagine anyone is going to top that for first class effort - well done

sorry to detract a little but further to the earlier comments, herewith a picture of some pickle forks showing their distinctive barbs, and the link shows the uranium pickle jars I mentioned.

http://www.glassmessages.com/index.php/topic,55081.msg312117.html#msg312117

[Simba]

yes Anne that's all I could find on them too...but just noticed on the logo it says Made in Silesia which is Czech or Poland I think ?

Paul I think these jars are very versatile, in my old Victorian and Edwardian catalogues definitely called Pickle jars so got a new name and new use in the new age of Art Deco, I suppose makers had to diversify.

[Anne]

Mainly Poland with a wee bit of Czech and German land thrown in, Angela.  So I'm really thinking that we are looking at an importer not a manufacturer... and did all their imports come from the sme place or did they shop around - in which case, how to classify this under GTS?

Re the pickle forks, we had those when I was a child, I love them! 

[Simba]

Well Anne I think the actual catalogue is from the Silesian company Castle Crystal and curiously the front page of the catalogue with the 'importers' details has a serrated edge so it can easily be removed from the catalogue so I would go with Silesia and Wright and Pouncy as just the importers

[Simba]

I also note that every page of the catalogue has the Castle Crystal Logo on it so definitely all from the one manufacturer....thought the picture of the castle looked very European ....doh  should have put my glasses on and took a closer look.

[Anne]

Thanks Angela, that's interesting... did you also spot Frank's comment on the Trinket Set topic? http://www.glassmessages.com/index.php/topic,59309.msg336350.html#msg336350 He suggests we check out the Josephinenhutte catalogues for pattern matches too.

[Simba]

 Yes Anne just had a FB message from him so we are getting to the bottom of this mystery slowly.

[Frank]

The long delay to dissolution is not abnormal after a company ceases trading, good to have the start date added which ties in with the Jo-He-Ky formation. So I can check in a narrower timeframe of 1924-32 typeface of catalogue fits 1924 too. I had known about Glasgow but glass connection was not really there apart from clock glasses having been sold to them.