Topic: Sherry glasses RD 826049, February 1938 – precise registration details, please?

[agincourt17]

Currently listed on eBay:
http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/PAIR-OF-VINTAGE-THISTLE-SHAPED-RIBBED-SHERRY-GLASSES-FOREIGN-REGD-NO-826049-/261335545139?pt=UK_Art_Glass&hash=item3cd8cff533

A pair of thistle-shaped sherry glasses. The vertically-ribbed bowls appear to be mould-blown. Polished pontil mark to base, acid etched in a circle FOREIGN REGD. No.826049. Each glass measures 3 3/4" (9.5cm) high by 2.6" (6.5cm) at widest.

RD number 826049 is not listed at http://www.great-glass.co.uk/glass%20notes/regnos10.htm
but the number should have been registered in February 1938.

Is RD 826049 listed in the Blue Book? If so, would a kind GMB member let me have the precise registration details, please?

Fred.

[Paul S.]

no..... missing again.......but will be either 10th or 11th February 1938.

[agincourt17]

Thank you, Paul.

Will add to the GMB RD lookup requests in due course.

Think the relevant registration references are as follows:

Registers BT 53/75 covering Designs 825249-830187 (05 Jan 1938 to 30 Jul 1938)

Representations BT 52/ 2178 covering Designs 825985-826111 (01 jan 1938 to 31 Dec 1938).

Fred.

[Paul S.]

thanks - although I can run down the Board of Trade references quite quickly myself now, when there are a dozen or more to do, it does save  quite a lot time if these BT Nos. can be included with other details when posting the Look Up Request.

[Paul S.]

some pictures from the National Archives for this Registration.

Board of Trade references are ..............     BT 52/2178  for the Representations         
                                                and             BT 53/75 for the Register.

Hope the wording is legible, let me know if not.

I remember going into Gammages, Holborn, in the lunch hour..............when I was uhmmmm         ....             a bit younger.      Leather Lane market, the Faringdon Road secondhand book stalls......  great days.

[agincourt17]

Thank you, Paul.

A good result (as usual). Another photographic representation of a model (presumably of clay or plaster) rather than a finished glass item.

Have not been able to find out more about the registrant, Percy Hancock & Son Limited. I suppose that the several changes of address could well have been as a result of damage caused during the blitz, and whole area has been totally redeveloped now anyway.

I wonder who the foreign manufacturers were?

Photos attached of the actual glasses listed on eBay. (Permission for the re-use of these images on the GMB granted by Grace West).

Fred.

[Paul S.]

quote.........................."I wonder who the foreign manufacturers were?"..........           Unfortunately, there's a limit to the extent of information that can be gleaned from Kew, and you many never know. 
I've a similar issue with a well know enamelled wine glass  -  comes in two forms .......one with putti and the other with stylized deco fashioned women and peacocks.         I know the Rd. No. and Registrant, but they're almost certainly made and decorated outside the U.K.