Pix now attached - Kew references are ………… Representations BT 52/2433 and for the Register it's BT 53/85.
Messrs. Henry Dresel Ltd. have appeared on the Board previously - some years back, but if you search under both their name and that of their agent Messrs. Cleveland, some earlier entries will be found.
Dressel must have had a thing about thistles - his name has been linked to at least one other Registration carrying this design, though as we know from previous information Dresel was an importer and not a manufacturer. The name suggests possibly some eastern European connection though that's a pesonal opinion only, but those items with which he was involved may well have originated from that part of the Continent - I seem to recall that earliler in the C20 he was involved in the importation of trinket set items.
Dresel, or perhaps more likely his agent Cleveland, seem to have a thing about CLASS IV, under which some of his earlier designs are entered - though an ashtray seems hardly worth protecting from commercial plagiarism - though I suppose we shouldn't dismiss entirely the possibility that this Reg. may at some time have been considered being made in ceramic.
This Reg. was extended just once it appears, so a total protection period of ten years.
My thanks as always to the Directors and Trustees of TNA for their help with this information.
Sorry the pix are less than good - I never did learn how to re-size, Watermark, re-size again and end up with a sharp imagem, though for those like myself who are less than technologically minded I've just realized that using the mouse wheel it's possible to blow the image up.