In case anyone interested in Sowerby glass designs missed it, in one of my replies (reply #9) to a Sowerby glass query thread at
http://www.glassmessages.com/index.php/topic,49335.0.htmlI revealed that:
I have started a whole gallery of reference photographs of Sowerby glass items ordered by Sowerby pattern number, cross-referenced (where appropriate or available) with their registered design numbers, registration dates, and Sowerby pattern book references (E&OE) at:
http://glassgallery.yobunny.org.uk/thumbnails.php?album=1001
Currently there are 290 images [mostly of Victorian Sowerby glass at present], and I am trying to add more all the time.
Glass Queries Gallery members please feel free to add more images, but non-members can refer to the gallery anyway.
In addition, for those Sowerby designs that were registered, I have endeavoured to add their RD numbers to the GMB RD database gallery at
http://glassgallery.yobunny.org.uk/thumbnails.php?album=763
and have cross-referenced with details of the Sowerby pattern numbers and Sowerby pattern book.
In both cases, there are many photos of Sowerby’s registered and unregistered designs that don’t appear on the Thistlewood CD-ROMs.
I hope that these photo reference galleries will be of some assistance to Sowerby collectors and researchers (E&OE) – and they are free, of course.
In addition, thanks to Paul S’s heroic efforts in the past, looking up the precise registration details of [not just Sowerby] glass designs and, where appropriate, showing the relevant design representations in The National Archives at Kew, many attributions, uncertainties and anomalies are being definitively resolved (though others are being brought to light as a result).
So, also armed with Thompson, Slack, Cottle, Hajdamach, Murray, Lattimore etc., and the Thistlewood CD-ROMs, a good magnifying glass, new specs, a comfy chair, a supply of pills to cure headaches, insatiable curiosity, and lots of time, who knows what nerdy queries about Sowerby glass will reach a satisfactory conclusion via the GMB from now on?
Fred.