Topic: Cobalt blue glass fairy lamp RD 280145 - precise registration details, please?

[agincourt17]

A blow-moulded cobalt blue glass fairy lamp; 3 ½ inches high. Embossed Rgd. No. 280145 to the base.

(Permission for the re-use of these images on the GMB granted by pauline2003rugby).

RD 280145 should have been registered in July 1896, but it is not listed in Thompson, Slack, Great Glass, or
http://www.fairy-lamp.com/Fairylamp/FairyLampDesignNumbers_All.html
and too early for the Blue Book.

This is probably another of those pesky Class 4 design registrations, but does anyone have any information as to the precise registration details, please?

Fred.

[Paul S.]

If you need to add this to the Look Up requests, I hope to be visiting Kew some time in the latter part of next week.

[agincourt17]

Thank you, Paul - will do.

Fred.

[Paul S.]

yes, CLASS 4 as you can see.              I don't know from what material the prototype was made  -  I could be wrong, but it looks too opaque to be the sort of glass used for the example showing here  -  maybe ceramic or pottery of some sort.

Kew References are..........   Representation BT 50/251.......           Register  BT51/87.

[agincourt17]

Thank you, Paul.

I will have to some research on the registrant - not someone I've encountered before.

I think many of the protoypes were made from plaster or other easily worked material such as clay, and could well then have bem painted.

I will request the deletion of RD 280145 from the lookup request list forthwith.

Fred.

[Jim Sapp]

Technically not a fairy lamp.  More commonly known as a Christmas Light here in the US.  Hearn called them Illumination Lights.  Following are a few articles for your information.

http://www.fairy-lamp.com/Fairylamp/ChristmasLights.html

The following has only a small bit of information, but interesting just the same.

http://www.fairy-lamp.com/Fairylamp/CollectIT.html

The following is a research report compiled in the 1940s on a broad range of Christmas lights.

http://www.fairy-lamp.com/Fairylamp/ChristmasLightsGraham.pdf

This report is available in book format if anyone is interested.

I have more Hearn ads but my computer is on the blink and a can't get to them right now.

Jim