these items were requested to form part of the Board's archive of diamond period Registrations for this Sunderland manufacturer - half a dozen in total - which seem to have been overlooked when collecting pix from The National Archives at Kew.
Nos. 302199 - 325547 - 359361 - 366032 - 374475 and 381481. Apologies in advance as some images are none too sharp.
I won't go into a lot of waffle about sizes etc. etc., as these details can be found elsewhere, along with histories of individual designs.
1/. 302199 - raised pattern on a pierced plate with accompanying text which indicates this was planned as a design for a desert service.
I thought we'd had this before but presumably not.
2/. 325547 - two images here, with one hopefully showing a bit more close up. This identical open sugar bowl was used on two occasions - once as shown here with Disraeli's bust in 1878, and couple of years later for Gladstone's second period of administration in 1880. The example here is in clear glass, but it was produced also apparently in opal.
3/. 359361 - shown in the Kew Register as a 'boating cup' - as least that's what I think it says - and makes sense in view of the explanation given by Slack which is far too long winded to relate here, and again clear glass here, but opal in Slack's book.
4/. 366032 - could be next year's entry for the Turner Prize, but a hundred years too early I think. The text wording reads 'Design for ornamenting glass sugar basins, dishes and all other descriptions of table glass'. Have we ever had an example on the Board - I don't remember, perhaps Fred will know.
one or two more to come, and again apologies for the poor images - sepia photos are not the best subjects to re-photograph. One picture will appear on the next post - five in total.