Chloe — I've just checked the two obvious sources, Thompson and Stewart & Stewart. Thompson gives 1880 – c.1890. Stewart & Stewart notes that the last
Pottery Gazette ad showing the TM was October 1890, but that ad was the last in the PG for a long time, and that the TM was resurrected in the late 1960s after the takeover by Abrahams. So we don't really know when Davidson stopped using the TM the first time around, so your observation is interesting, and I've pencilled a note to that effect in my working copy of Thompson. Note that year suites may have been developed the previous year in time for Christmas.
My own observation is that the 1960s TM, possibly in two sizes, is a little spikier than the Victorian one, as though it had had a Prince of Wales dragon as one of its ancestors, and that it was only used on some moulds intended solely for the production of
Marble glassware, launched in 1964 according to Stewart & Stewart, much of which was sold into the antiques trade.
Please would readers note that I am looking for a Jobling 2598 ash tray in
Marble, complete with Jobling Reg No (800714) and Davidson/Abrahams lion. I had one years ago, didn't understand it, and sold it. Now I would very much like to check it for other reasons. I don't need to buy one, although it would be rather nice, but just to check it. A full clear set of photographs from every angle would be ideal (26 photographs in all — from top, angled down, side, angled up, and bottom of all four sides and corners).
Bernard C.
Topic: Davidson 1895 Pattern - I have one with Lion mark (Read 3042 times)
