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Davidson - Pattern Books and Examples of Glass The Hobnail Suite
Also in 1885, Davidson ran an advert of covered sugars/butter dishes in the Silver and Fleming Catalogue, which included the examples below
Click on the items for a larger image Items seen in the catalogue above
Davidson Cat and Dog lidded sugar bowl 1885
Punch Butter Dish c.1885
Star acid etched Butter Dish and Jug c.1885
Double Sweetmeat Dish, 1890 with lion registration mark
Just a Thimbleful shot glass in amber 1885
Turquoise Pearline Bowl, Jug, Bowl and Basket all with registration numbers 130643 - 13 August 1889. Unmarked Davidson vase c.1888. Pearline Banana Boats with registration numbers 212684 - 25 May 1893
Black Amethyst cream and sugar with shell and coral pattern 1890
Button and Daisy Celery Vase with registration number 176566 - 15 August 1891
Silver Plated Biscuit Barrel and stemmed dish with registration number 413701 - 14 July 1903
The Daisy suite was produced for nearly 40 years in an assortment of colours. By the 1940's chrome fittings were added to make them into tiered cake plates, and even art deco figures holding the plates. These have the registration number 533040 - 18 November 1908. The Davidson glassworks were taken over by the maker of the chrome electroplaters - Abrahams and Co, in 1966.
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