Percival Yates & Vickers Glass:

19th Century glass from
Manchester in Lancashire, UK
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Percival Yates & Vickers operated from the 1844 to 1914 first as Percival Yates, then as Percival Yates & Vickers and from the 1870's onwards, as Percival Vickers. Their first registered design for pressed glass was in 1847 (a bottle). Most of their glass is clear good quality tableware, some with frosted designs.

Their advertisement in the Pottery Gazette Diary in 1902 showed their extensive glassworks in Jersey Street, Manchester, and described the company as manufacturers of "FLINT and COLOURED GLASS, Cut, Moulded, and Engraved; also Retorts and Chemical Appliances. CONTRACTORS TO H.M. NAVY." They had a London showroom in Queen Anne's Chambers, Holborn Viaduct, and they also offered "SPECIALITIES for MOUNTERS, ELECTRO-PLATERS, and ELECTRICIANS."

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References, Sources & Further Reading:

1: "Percival, Vickers & Co. Ltd: The Archaeology of a 19th-Century Manchester Flint Glass Works" by Ian Miller (2007)an article in the Industrial Archaeology Review, Volume 29, Number 1, May 2007
2: English Pressed Glass 1830-1900 by Raymond Slack (1987)
3: The identification of English Pressed Glass by Jenny Thompson (1989).
4: British Glass 1800-1914, by Charles R. Hajdamach, (1991).
5: 20th Century Factory Glass by Lesley Jackson (May 2000).
6: Victorian Decorative Glass 1850-1914, by Mervyn Gulliver, (2002).
7: The Manchester Glass Industry by Roger Dodsworth (article in The Glass Circle No 4).
8: Decorative Victorian Glass by Cyril Manley, (1981).

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