Topic: Whitefriars purple ribbed vase Rd 543290

[flying free]

Aha -
T. West Carnie

The Connoisseur (Volume 87 (? I think 1931?) - Issues 354-355) has this advertisement:

'come to T. West Carnie  (member of the British Antique Dealers Association) 60 Bryanston St, London W1' and also gives another address in Seymour Street.

https://www.google.co.uk/books/edition/The_Connoisseur/t_jQ-trOzxkC?hl=en&gbpv=1&bsq=60+Bryanston+St+London&dq=60+Bryanston+St+London&printsec=frontcover

and!

The Royal Horticultural Society issued a Silver Banksian medal to a
'T. West Carnie 59 Seymour Street, W., for flower glasses and ornaments;

Volume 42 - 1917
https://www.google.co.uk/books/edition/Journal_of_the_Royal_Horticultural_Socie/hF5JAQAAMAAJ?hl=en&gbpv=1&bsq=T.+West+Carnie+Seymour+Street&dq=T.+West+Carnie+Seymour+Street&printsec=frontcover

[Paul S.]

m - your sleuthing is amazing to say the least .............   what is astounding, for me, is to read Bernard Cavelot's comments about W/Fs Registrations ...........    "So far I've found eight Whitefriars design registrations in the period 1890 to 1945, none of which I've ever seen marked on their glass."          A great shame Bernard didn't list the Reg. Nos.  -  where he found them I've no idea  -  did he research at Kew or elsewhere?

[flying free]

m - your sleuthing is amazing to say the least .............   what is astounding, for me, is to read Bernard Cavelot's comments about W/Fs Registrations ...........    "So far I've found eight Whitefriars design registrations in the period 1890 to 1945, none of which I've ever seen marked on their glass."          A great shame Bernard didn't list the Reg. Nos.  -  where he found them I've no idea  -  did he research at Kew or elsewhere?

The finger bowl improvement patent registered by T. W. Carnie was done in 1890. I wonder if one of the WF designs registrations might have been for a finger bowl (new improved Carnie design??)

[Paul S.]

how do you improve a finger bowl ? ......................   surely, a finger bowl is a finger bowl is a finger bowl  ....    how do you improve the most basic of shapes I wonder ?                I had dozens of finger bowls once - all now gone ........   all were simply the typical shape.

[LEGSY]

Lovely piece of glass i love amethyst glass .