Topic: Uranium glass perfume bottle GV de Luca RD 290263-264 of 3 April 1875

[agincourt17]

To show - a uranium glass perfume bottle RD 290263 or 290264 with the registry date lozenge for 3 April 1875 – Parcel 10 embossed on the base of the bottle.

(Permission for the re-use of these images on the GMB granted by kandv4).

Giuseppe Vincenzo de Luca seems to have carried on business in the City as ‘Glass Merchants and Manufacturers’ Agents under the style of ‘The French Flint Glass Bottle Company’, so I suppose the perfume bottle may well have been manufactured in France for import and retail in Britain.
A partnership between de Luca and Stafford Hill trading at 6 & 7 Long Lane, Aldersgate Street, City of London) was dissolved on 2 December 1900, and de Luca presumably carried on the business as he is named as Managing Director of the Limited Company in a notice in the London Gazette following his death on 1 December 1918. A London Street Directory of 1921 cites The French Glass and Bottle Co Ltd as trading from 19 & 20 Smithfield (West), EC1.

Fred.

[Paul S.]

thanks Fred, and another example of a Registrant not being the manufacturer  -  I wonder if you'll ever find an example of 290264.

I'm unsure of the full name shown in the lower right hand corner - the second word appears to read Billet, and their address looks to read  ... 17 Keppel St., Russell Square (London), and rather quaint how the first 's' in Russell looks to be drawn in the antique C17 style similar to our modern 'f'.

Apologies - seeing that we appeared to have all the necessary details from both Fred's original post and the Kew pictures, I didn't go looking for the Register when I was at the National Archives  -  do hope this hasn't impaired our knowledge of these items.

Just my opinion of course, and appreciate this is an item from an unknown source, but in view of the British Board of Trade Registration then might it fit better in British Glass?

[agincourt17]

Thank you, Paul.

The design representations certainly confirm that the perfume bottle I showed was from RD 290263.

I will add both the representations to the GMB RD database in the event (unlikely though it may be) that someone does come across bottle RD 290264.

Fred.