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RD 120613
A yellow-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

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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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Album name:agincourt17 / 06 Registered Designs
Glassworks:Percival, Yates & Vickers, Manchester.
Catalogue Year:Registered 8 July 1859 - Parcel 2
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Date added:Dec 07, 2013
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