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RD 120613
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A clear 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 © maitland1972.
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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