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RD 120613
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A golden yellow and an emerald green uranium pressed glass piano insulator. Diameter 100mm x height 42mm.
Date lozenge to the base for July 1859 - Parcel 2. Corresponds to Registered Design number 120613, registered by Thomas Dawkins of 4 Little Warner Street, Clerkenwell, London, and the design registration is for a piano insulator. National Archives refs: BT 44/7/120613 and BT 43/61/120613
Photo copyright Michael Upjohn.
The 1861 census gives Thomas Dawkins as 'importer and manufacturer of musical instruments' (presumably including pianos).
There is good evidence that it was made and registered by Percival, Yates, & Vickers, Manchester, for Thomas Dawkins. See:
http://www.glassmessages.com/index.php/topic,49980.msg311871.html#msg311871
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