Identification of English Pressed Glass, 1842-1908

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Intended for collectors. Provides a short historical account of the industry and illustrations of products identified as to maker by their registration number [ie Patent Office Design Registry mark or maker's trademark]. Also includes substantial extracts from the Design Registers held in the National Archives. Usefully also provided are short profiles of manufacturers, viz: Greener, Wear Flint Glass Works, Sunderland; George Davidson & Co, Team Glass Works, Gateshead; W H Heppell, Newcastle Flint Glass Works; Edward Moore & Co, Tyne Flint Glass Works, South Shields; Sowerby & Co, Ellison Glass Works, Gateshead; Burtles, Tate & Co, Poland Street, Manchester; James Derbyshire & Brother, Hulme, Manchester; John Derbyshire, Regent Road Flint Glass Works, Salford; Molineux & Co, Manchester; Percival, Yates & Vickers, Jersey Street, Manchester. An included 'Supplement', dated 2000, gives further information re certain producers but also about additional ones, viz: John Walsh Walsh (sic), Soho & Vesta Glass Works, Birmingham; Thomas Webb & Sons, Dennis Glass Works, Stourbridge; Boulton & Mills, Audnam Glass Works, Wordsley, Stourbridge; Hodgetts, Richardson & Pargeter, Wordsley