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Title: registration number , maker if possible please - ID = IDRIS
Post by: saorsa on July 29, 2007, 12:33:42 PM

wonder if anyone can help me find a maker of two pressed glass decanters
there are stamped on the base with a registration number   736240  t2

Thanks  again  all

Title: Re: registration number , maker if possible please
Post by: Lustrousstone on July 29, 2007, 12:50:33 PM

The design date is Feb/March 1928 but can't help you with who it was registered for

Title: Re: registration number , maker if possible please
Post by: saorsa on July 29, 2007, 01:04:33 PM

Thanks Christine

Title: Re: registration number , maker if possible please
Post by: Angela B on July 29, 2007, 02:21:34 PM

That registration number was registered by Idris & Co. on the 19 of March 1928.
I don't know who Idris & Co. were - maybe somebody else does.

Title: Re: registration number , maker if possible please
Post by: Angela B on July 29, 2007, 02:28:24 PM

Apparently Idris made the liquid that would have been in your decanter. They probably didn't make the decanter.
There's a discussion that seems relevant here:
http://www.glassmessages.com/index.php/topic,2668.0.html

Title: Re: registration number , maker if possible please
Post by: Lustrousstone on July 29, 2007, 02:56:54 PM

Idris & Co Ltd seem to have been mineral water manufacturers in Portsmouth, possibly they made cordials as well. See here (http://homepage.ntlworld.com/stephen.pomeroy/local/mineral.pdf). If you go backwards on the link it's stuff about Portsmouth.

Title: Re: registration number , maker if possible please - ID = IDRIS
Post by: agincourt17 on September 30, 2014, 08:03:29 AM

Some photos of a decanter RD 736240 (with what seems to be the original stopper).  25cm tall (including stopper) and with a base diameter of 10.5cm.

(Permission for the re-use of these images on the GMB granted by chictat).

Two water jugs from Idris & Co. registered designs were discussed at
http://www.glassmessages.com/index.php/topic,21289.msg299306.html#msg299306

More information on Idris & Co. at
http://www.gracesguide.co.uk/Idris_and_Co

By the way, there was a well-known television jingle advertising Idris lemonade from the early days of commercial television (1960s?) that went:

“I drink Idris when I’s dri,
Idris is the drink to buy,
I drink Idris, I drink Idris,
Idris when I’s dri.”

Fred.