Thank you for this latest batch of design representations, Paul - the James Bond ' church' looks particularly interesting.
Snippets re. ink bottle RD 215150, registered by Edward Jackson Hollidge, Symond's Inn, Chancery Lane London, on 21 December 1867 - Parcel 6. Class 3; glass.
From a seach of the online registration summaries at TNA, this appears to be his sole design registration (though there are certainly glass ink bottles, presumably unregistered designs, bearing his name (see later).
Symond's Inn was one of the original 13 Inns of Court ( Lincoln's Inn; Temple; Gray's Inn; Furnival's Inn; Staple Inn; Sergeant's Inn; Clifford's Inn; Clement's Inn; New Inn; Lyon's Inn; Symond's Inn Barnard's Inn; Thavies Inn), a sizable number of buildings or precincts where barristers traditionally lodged, trained and carried on their profession.
Mr Vholes in Dickens' Bleak House has chambers in Symond’s Inn:
The name of Mr. Vholes, preceded by the legend Ground-Floor, is inscribed upon a door-post in Symond's Inn, Chancery Lane--a little, pale, wall-eyed, woebegone inn like a large dust-binn of two compartments and a sifter. It looks as if Symond were a sparing man in his way and constructed his inn of old building materials which took kindly to the dry rot and to dirt and all things decaying and dismal, and perpetuated Symond's memory with congenial shabbiness. Quartered in this dingy hatchment commemorative of Symond are the legal bearings of Mr. Vholes.
From:
http://www.victorianlondon.org/publications5/prisons-04.htmThe Inns of Court are themselves sufficiently peculiar to give a strong distinctive mark to the locality in which they exist; for here are seen broad open squares like huge court-yards, paved and treeless, and flanked with grubby mansions - as big and cheerless-looking as barracks - every one of them being destitute of doors, and having a string of names painted in stripes upon the door-posts, that reminds one of the lists displayed at an estate-agent's office and there is generally a chapel-like edifice called the "hall," that is devoted to feeding rather than praying, and where the lawyerlings "qualify" for the bar by eating so many dinners, and become at length - gastronomically - learned in the law. Then how peculiar are the tidy legal gardens attached to the principal Inns, with their close-shaven grass-plots looking as sleek and bright as so much green plush, and the clean-swept gravel walks thronged with children, and nursemaids, and law-students. How odd, too, are the desolate-looking legal alleys or courts adjoining these Inns, with nothing but a pump or a cane-bearing street-keeper to be seen in the midst of them, and occasionally at one corner, beside a crypt-like passage, a stray dark and dingy barber's shop, with its seedy display of powdered horsehair wigs of the same dirty-white hue as London snow. Who, moreover, has not noted the windows of the legal fruiterers and law stationers hereabouts, stuck over with small announcements of clerkships wanted, each penned, in the well-known formidable straight-up-and-down three-and-fourpenny hand, and beginning-with a "This-Indenture"-like flourish of German text - "The Writer Hereof" &c. Who, too, while threading his way through the monastic- like byways of such places, has not been startled to find himself suddenly light upon a small enclosure, comprising a tree or two, and a little circular pool, hardly bigger than a lawyer's inkstand, with a so-called fountain in the centre, squirting up the water in one long thick thread, as if it were the nozzle of a fire-engine.
[Over the centuries the number of active Inns of Court was reduced to the present four: Lincoln's Inn; Inner Temple; Middle Temple; Gray's Inn].
It would appear, therefore that the registrant for RD 215150 was probably working in some capacity in the legal profession, although whether he was acting on his own behalf or for a client is not clear.
Edward Jackson Hollidge was a Yorkshireman, born 1831 (christened 8 November 1831, Holy Trinity, Hull); his father is Edward Hollidge (b. 16 March 1807, Cheshunt, Hertfordshire), and his mother's name is Ann. He died in the third quarter of 1891 in Hackney.
In the 1851 cenus, he is a merchant's clerk (aged 19, unmarried), living in Wright Street, Sculcoates, Yorkshire, with his father, Edward (head of household, aged 44, b. Chesham, Hertfordshire), Mary Elizabeth Masterman (Edward Snrs. daughter-in-law, aged 28) and 2 servants.
Edward Jackson Hollidge married Elizabeth Pinder on 18 May 1853 in Holy Trinty, Hull. Father of the groom - Edward Hollidge; father of the bride - Charles Pinder
Children: James Edward (M., chr. 3 April 1854, Holy Trinity, Hull); Charles (M., Chr. 18 August 1855, Holy Trinity, Hull); John (M., Chr. 29 October 1856, Holy Trinity, Hull); William (M., chr. 2 October 1857, Holy Trinity, Hull); Frederick (M., Chr. 28 April 1858, Holy Trinity, Hull); Mary Elizabeth (F., chr. 11 June 1861, St. Luke, Hull); Alice Maud (F., Chr. 30 June 1862, Hull); Arthur (M., b. about 1866 in Wakefield, Yorkshire).
In the 1871 census, he is aged 39, living in Hammersmith, London, with his wife, Elizabeth (aged 37, born in Horner?, Lincolnshire), and his son, James Edward (aged 17). Occupation - ink maker.
In the 1881 census, he is living in Canonbury Grove, Islington (head of household, aged 49), with his wife Elizabeth ( aged 47, described as being born in Horncastle, Lincolnshire) his sons, Edward, Frederick, and Arthur (Arthur aged 15, b. in Wakefield, Yorks.), and his father, Edward (aged 74, b. Cheshunt, Hertfordshire). Edward Jackson Hollidge is described as a 'silk manufacturer, employing 6 hands') - perhaps this is a mistranscription of 'ink manufacturer' ?. Quite a smart address.
In the 1891 census, (aged 59, b. Yorkshire). he was living at 34 Devonshire Road, Hackney, with his wife, Elizabeth, (aged 57, b. Lincolnshire), his son, Arthur (aged 25, b. Yorkshire), and his father, Edward (84, b. Hertfordshire). He is described as an 'ink manufacturer'. Another smart address by the looks of the Victorian houses still surviving.
There is a death record for Edward Jackson Hollidge (aged 60) of Hackney in the 3rd quarter of 1891, and for Elizabeth Hollidge (aged 65) of Hackney in the first quarter of 1898.
Glass pen rest ink bottle marked 'Hollinge, London' on the shoulder at
http://www.worthpoint.com/worthopedia/inkwell-pen-rest-hollidge-ink-bottle-105189804quite similar to Hollidge's RD 215150 bottle. I gather that this shape is also known as a 'rectangular cabin' or 'boat' ink
E.J. Hollidge Ltd 'Eureka Bright Blue Ink' branded stoneware ink bottle at
https://www.ebth.com/items/112501-eureka-vintage-inkwellThere is a Hollidge stoneware 'penny ink' bottle on the bottom middle row of the section at
http://www.antiquebottles.co.za/pages/categories/Ink.htmStoneware ink bottle, including one with a label for
‘HOLLIDGE’S WRITTING FLUID // MANUFACTURED BY E.J. HOLLIDGE LTD // KING HENRY’S WALK, LONDON // ESTABLISHED 1861 (or 1851?)’ at
http://www.khwgarden.org.uk/about-the-garden/history/King Henry's Walk, London is at postcode NI 4NX, and is less than a mile from Edward Jackson Hollidge's Canonbury Grove address (postcode N1 2HR) residential address of 1881.
Fred.
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