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Glass Identification - Post here for all ID requests => Glass => Topic started by: chriscooper on September 04, 2011, 03:13:03 PM
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Not something I would normally buy but thought it a little quirky 4" high marked Parozone registered design no 444950 presume it's a measure of some sort moulded measure mark halfway up, pressed glass.
Pouring and measuring bleach is the obvious answer ?
https://picasaweb.google.com/107067405711297858658/ParozoneGlassMeasure#5648517346805069154
Chris :sun:
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very novel Chris - and interesting to see that this Reg. No. doesn't appear in Jenny Thompson. Assuming this is indeed the Reg. No., then it would have been first registered somewhere around late 1904 - but must admit I hadn't thought of Parozone going back that far - obviously they did. :)
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Chris, couldn't seem to find anything about your glass measurer, although did come across this rather amusing Parazone advertisement for 1924
http://www.historyworld.co.uk/advert.php?id=338&offset=1350&sort=0&l1=&l2=
:)
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No couldn't find it either Paul, a blow up here definitely a registered design and the right number.
https://picasaweb.google.com/107067405711297858658/ParozoneGlassMeasure#5648768191789237586
Around in the 20s at least then, thanks for the poster link though it doesn't look 100 year old maybe the bleach as kept it gleaming, or as normally happens the design was used for a lot of years an it's maybe 1950s ? though I have not seen another, then I haven't been looking :wsh:
British product made by Jeyes http://www.jeyes.co.uk/aboutjeyes.htm thought American though for some reason.
Probably another ill spent £1 at the car boot then and made in the thousands, but there is always a story behind them did they actually have a practical use and did people actually use them, a promotion give away, and of course who actually made them?
Chris
Chris
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:hi: Interesting piece of pressed glass and seems to be of very good quality - I like it and would have bought it too, Chris!
An image of base would be nice as well, please :sun:
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Will do tomorrow Pamela, it is good quality and the letter moulding is quite crisp.
Chris :sun:
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quote from Chris..........."Probably another ill spent £1 at the car boot then"........it's not the ill spent quid that bothers me - it's the ill spent tenner :24:
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:mrgreen: :mrgreen: :mrgreen: Ooohhh Chris, I like that!
Could I add copies of your photos to the Registered Design Number album please?
http://glassgallery.yobunny.org.uk/thumbnails.php?album=763
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I wonder if it's a bleach jar? They are mentioned as having been made by Possil pottery for Parozone here: http://www.scottishpotterysociety.co.uk/show.php?contentid=46 - there was a working connection between this Possil Pottery in Scotland and Imperial Chemical Industries and the Portland Glass Company, so that might be an area to investigate.
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Should also add that the Portland Glass Co Ltd are shown in the 1939 Industrial Scotland directory as being in Irvine, Ayrshire, and were a bottle works.
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A photo of the base Pamela....
https://picasaweb.google.com/107067405711297858658/ParozoneGlassMeasureBaseShot?authkey=Gv1sRgCKjruJDeqrKGcg#5649255945214199634 (https://picasaweb.google.com/107067405711297858658/ParozoneGlassMeasureBaseShot?authkey=Gv1sRgCKjruJDeqrKGcg#5649255945214199634)
Interesting Anne, I promise I will read it all tonight, use the photo by all means can you 'grab' it or do you want me to eMail it as a file.
Chris :sun:
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Thanks Chris, I can lift copies from here for the RD album. :)
Incidentally, I found a mention last night that Portland Glass Co. Ltd became a part of the Rockware Group in 1958...
Portland Glass Company of Irvine, Ayrshire which was used to serve the needs of its Scottish customers in the spirits, soft drinks, dairy and food industries.
(Source: The Monopolies and Mergers Commission report: Rockware Group Limited, United Glass Limited, Redfearn National Glass Limited, A Report on the Proposed Mergers. Presented to Parliament in pursuance of Section 83 of the Fair Trading Act 1973. Ordered by The House of Commons to be printed 3rd May, 1978. London. Her Majesty's Stationery Office.)
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Rockware glass, brings back a few memories Anne, along with Greggs and Jacksons in Ferrybridge a tiny village with about 4 glassworks, chemical works, iron foundries a coal mine. The huge Lumb's glass works in nearby Castleford with it's pottery works the giant Hickson and Welch chemical plant now gone and Mackies now Nestle soon to close all the coal mines long gone, so had to diversify and now work in plastic blow moulding ironically where 40 men over 4 shifts can easily make 1 million bothery plastic bottles a day without even breaking sweat,
Sorry rambling on again must stop doing that :pb:
Chris :sun:
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Small world Chris, my OH used to work at Hiccup and Belch (as he calls it!) in one of the labs (industrial chemist) and was born and raised in Castleford. He was shocked to hear that it's gone!
The MMC report makes interesting reading about the glass industry in 1976. It's downloadable from the MMC website.
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The good old days Anne or were they we used to laugh and joke with a guy who worked in the plant I think that made weedkiller? used take is socks off and his feet were green and ridicule us miners for wearing mascara and eye shadow where the coal dust had collected. A lot of them are prematurely gone and I am left with chronic Bronchitis so probably not so good after all.
Chris