Tim, a question re your posts on the first page of this thread:
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M, there is a little bit more about the James Powell topaz glass in the big Whitefriars book.
Whitefriars glass,James Powell & sons of London.
Have you got the info you need or should i add some more to your post?
Tim'and
In the glasshouse recipe book covering 1831to 1838 it records some trials of various colouring oxides.
One of these trials was with oxide of uranium which produced a spectacular yellow which Powells called topaz.
Powells made some silver mounted candlesticks with prismatic drops given by lord Howe to queen Adelaide in topaz in 1836.
In the banquet given by the corporation of London for queen Victoria in 1837 there were 12 finger bowls and the bowls of twenty four hock glasses.
Dont know why Charles Hajdamach would not have attributed the images, he is a very knowledgeable expert.
Tim
question is, is the book you are paraphrasing/referencing from here - is it the Whitefriars Glass: James Powell and Sons book, the one published by the Museum of London?
Just wondering because the link I originally gave to the bowl that said it was by James Powell & Sons was a link to the Museum of London.
Then the link disappeared.
But I managed to find it referenced to the Museum of London on this memoryprints site:
http://www.memoryprints.com/image/142383/james-powell-and-sons-whitefriars-ltd-finger-bowl-in-topaz-glass-1837And of course we now know the bowl is at the V&A with their information saying it was made at Davenports.
So I wonder if Barrie Skelcher's information in the Big Book of Vaseline Glass published 2002 maybe came from the Museum of London information or that Whitefriars Glass: James Powell & Sons book from the Museum of London which was published in 1995?
Obviously the information in that book regarding this particular bowl now seems to have been surpassed by the new information from the V&A saying the bowl was made by Davenports.
If this is the case then I think the question of James Powell and Sons making this uranium glass bowl might be questioned as it may have stemmed from that book information perhaps.
Which leaves the question - If this bowl was indeed presented/used at the Guild banquet, were Davenports making uranium glass in 1837?