Topic: jules lang piece Reg No 799042

[jimbob]

hi jimbob here Dewsbury uk  I have a jules lang piece Reg No 799042  made in 1934 that's all that I know could someone help to find out what it is   

[agincourt17]

Welcome to the GMB, jimbob.

As your query is an ID request, I think it should probably have been posted in the main Glass section (identification requests), but it can always be moved by the moderators if needs be. This section is really for listing details of registered designs  prior to detailed searches being made for their registry details and design representations at The National Archives at Kew (presently via the kind offices of GMB member Paul Stirling).

Jules Lang & Son registered design number 799042 on 31 Dec 1934.

Posting a photo of an item for ID is always helpful, but I  presume your piece is like the example in my photos below (clicking on a photo thumbnail should enlarge it) – an oval footed bowl in clear pressed glass, the ‘ends’ of the bowl having exterior sockets into which fit small trumpet-shaped epergnes . Most probably meant to be a decorative table centrepiece, the epergnes to hold posies of flowers and main bowl to hold an arrangement of flowers of perhaps fruit.

The design registrants were London-based, but were importers and agents of glassware, some of which was manufactured in their own French glassworks and the rest most likely made under licence elsewhere in Europe. 

Fred.

[jimbob]

hi fred thank you very much,because of the age of the item we want to put it on the house insurance   It was my partners mothers give to her when she married in the late 1930,s but we don't know where to get it valued        jim

[agincourt17]

GMB members do not normally give valuations because of their subjective nature (the valuations, not the members), and a valuation is a financial assesment by an authorised and/or qualified valuer (with legal and financial impliactions).

I can, however, tell you that the last couple of these Jules Lang centrepieces (complete with both epergnes) sold on eBay for well under £50. They were, after all, mass-produced items of pressed glass tableware.

Fred.