http://www.cloudglass.com/r18911900.htm shows the design representation for Davidsons’s ‘Georgian’ House tea caddy, RD 207909 of 20 February 1893.
The ‘house’ has a hipped roof, central chimney stack, and 2 storeys (with 3 windows to the first floor front , and 2 windows and a central door to the ground floor front.
Raymond Slack has a photograph of the tea caddy in flint glass on page 81 of ‘English Pressed Glass 1830-1900’ with the following legend:
Flint glass tea caddy in the shape of a house, the roof forming the lid. Design registered by George Davidson & Co. 20 February 1893, RD 207909. Height 4¾ inches (12.1cm).
A while ago I was sent some photos of a Davidson flint glass lidded dish/tea caddy bearing the embossed Rd. No. 207909 to the base, and having a the lid in the expected shape of hipped roof with central chimney stack, BUT the base of the caddy/house was only a single storey (with the expected 2 windows and central door).
I jokingly suggested to the owner that this was either a ‘bungalow/cottage’ version of the house tea caddy, or that it may possibly have been cut down from a damaged 2-story version. Neither of us had come across this ‘bungalow/cottage’ version before, and internet searches proved unfruitful.
Now, however, the owner has 'discovered' the base of a 2-storey ‘house’ tea caddy amongst his collection and has sent me these photos of the 2-storey and [now, obviously, smaller] single-storey versions together for comparison, proving that his single-storey version really is a ‘bungalow/cottage’ version rather than a cut-down 2-storey piece.
(Permission for the re-use of these images on the GMB granted by Kevin Collins).
I imagine that the single-storey version is a lidded preserve or butter dish rather than merely a smaller tea caddy.
Has anyone else come across this smaller, single storey Davidson ‘bungalow/cottage’, and does anyone have photos of either version to show in other colours, please?
Fred.