details from The National Archives show that all Rd. Nos. shown in Anne's post, refer to various new shapes from Stuart and, without exception, these incorporate the factory's new decorative design which they called 'Stratford Rings'. Most shapes appear to have been popular, with some being produced possibly until the 1970's - probably one of the longest runs for one particular design feature. Some shapes turn up frequently but others, like the pickle, far less so.
As can be seen, the very first shape to have Stratford Rings appears to have been a water jug under Registration 681268.
Unfortunately, apart from one or two shapes, most of them are without their factory pattern No.
I'll show them here for now, but obviously they can be moved if the Mods. wish. As always sincere thanks to staff and Trustees at The National Archives - Kew - for their help.
Just to be on the safe side, I've also looked (and photographed) Stuart's slightly earlier Registrations from 1918, 1919 and 1920 (only four in total) and can confirm that none of those is related to Stratford Rings. There are even earlier Stuart Registrations, of course, but am certain those will be unrelated to the Rings design.
Most recent sources of post Thompson Registration Nos. have undoubtedly taken their information from the Glass Association Blue Book, so this is just by way of acknowledging the very useful work of Jim D. Edgley for his compilation of said publication, which many of us use frequently. It may be that some of those Registrations that found their way into CLASS IV might have evaded inclusion in the Blue Book - it's some little while since we discussed this problem, and I've now forgotten if that is in fact the case. I do know that CLASS IV items are certainly missing from most of the publications. Someone might care to correct me on this.
As is typical with original drawings submitted to the Board of Trade, all these examples from Stuart carry the standard wording ... ""The novelty claimed in the design is the shape or configuration as shown"".......... usually it's just outline shapes that are being Registered, so these are possibly a tad unusual as these incorporate the Rings as decorative feature.
I noticed that two of the drawings - Rd. 681650 and 681652 - each had the following on their reverse.............
""The Registration of this design shall not interfere with the use by any person of the design of prior date No. 681310 (typed on 681650) - 681311 (typed on 681652) when copyright in that design has ceased.
Not sure I follow the meaning entirely - someone like to explain please.
It consumes most of the day to put this contribution together, so trust anyone using these details will acknowledge the Glass Message Board as the source, please. thanks.
there are nineteen pix, so will be spread over several separate posts, and there may be an interval whilst the usherette comes round with the ice cream.........