Hello James,
I've got an obituary here of Jules Lang dating from 1910 saying he died aged 69.
I quote:
"Founder of, and senior partner in, the firm of Jules Lang & Co, glass importers of 16 Bury Str., St.Mary Axe, E.C., and glass manufacturers of the Progress Glass Works, Eu, near Dieppe, France.
Was well known to wholesale and retail dealers in London and in the provinces. Thirty years ago he was in partnership with his brother under the firm name of Jonas and Jules Lang, glass manufacturers of Rue Notre dame, Paris, with large showrooms in Charterhouse-buildings, London. They supplied all kinds of foreign glassware but made a special feature of "Crystal" . In course of time the brothers dissolved partnership, each continuing in the glass trade.
He then took his son into partnership and they have traded since as Jules Lang & Son.
Mr.Lang was fond of introducing novelties and supplied a number of specialities for licensed victuallers and for the confectionary trades.
He introduced special vials, jars and bottles for chemists and perfumers.
The firm have made considerable extensions and improvements in the glass-making plant at Eu. They patented a remarkable invention, the Lang pot, (special feature: it permits an uninterrupted supply of glass so that the work can can proceed day and night).
We should have preferred it if Mr. Lang had manufactured his glass in England, his reply: too many restrictions. There were probably other reasons, but the deceased evidently was not disposed to risk the interference of British workman with his methods. Older dealers will remember the success he and his brother had supplying the trade with fly-catchers!"
I have an advert dating from 1906 saying he purchased a large number of moulds lately belonging to Messrs. Sowerby, Ltd, of Lemington, Newcastle -on-Tyne.
Patricia
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