Topic: Glass Registration No. 252274 - ID = Scotney & Earnshaw

[Frank]

What a wonderful collaborative effort. A US manufactured piece with an English registration and the puzzles of many solved as well as a perfect example of reliance on even moulded marks for identification of origin.

[Paul S.]

It's a marvellous thing that we have some very knowledgable people looking in here.          Just glad I was able to start the ball rolling, which then enabled a greater amount of information to be added.       Pedantic is not a problem - always better to be accurate rather than seem clever.

Bernard - I will look in detail at your watermark download later  -  seems just the ticket for images from TNA.         Apparently, they were worried that if I was entering too many high resolution images into the public domain, there might have been the risk of theft for commercial purposes.        As you probably know, in the ordinary course of events when National Archive images are used in a professional sense, payment is required, understandably.
You're right of course regarding the reason for 252274 being absent from the lists  - I forgot we had discussed previously that these items are missing simply because they are listed as Class 4, and not because the Registers are too heavy for lady authors to lift

As can be seen from the written details entered in the Register (my pic. No. 3) - two Nos. are shown on the one page as being registered on 1st April 1895 under the name of Scotney & Earnshaw.         Since I was concentrating on 252274, I didn't take a picture of 252275 - which from memory is a circular shallow dish/tray of sorts (in glass).    When I visit TNA next I'll take a photograph of that item  -  as this also will be missing from any lists.     From memory, I seem to recall that it had some colour in the drawing -possibly yellow staining, but I'm not sure.

[Bernard C]

Paul et al — While a US manufacturer is most likely, Scotney & Earnshaw were just as capable as anyone of taking what looks like a US design and getting a mould made and the glass manufactured in Europe.   Also there is the possibility of their obtaining a US mould and having that used on this side of the pond.

It's worth keeping in mind the Fostoria American pattern cube sugar / preserve indisputably made by Davidson in jade and flint.   We still don't know whether it was made with a modified Fostoria mould or a completely new mould made by Davidson, as there is a very close match to the shape and size in Fostoria's range.

Bernard C.  

[Anne]

Images with copyright watermark updated. Thanks to Paul and Bernard for getting this sorted between you.

[Paul S.]

thanks to Bernard for posting the link which enabled me to create a professional watermark - it really is a simple process, and if someone as generally computer illiterate as me can produce a good result, it must be good.      I have used the highest contrast for the wording i.e. set to level 5 to produce maximum visual strength  -  and would appreciate comments from people as to whether it is considered to be excessive in relation to the image of the glass, or whether it stands out well and in fact doesn't overpower those parts we all really want to look at

[Bernard C]

Paul — Your watermarking is fine apart from the watermark on the Register, the third image, where I think the watermarker intensity level of 5 is a little overpowering.   Nevertheless you can see all you need.   Please would you leave it unchanged so that others can see that you need to consider adjusting the watermarker intensity to suit the contrast of the underlying image.

Bernard C.