Rice W. Harris

[Badfrog]

Got this yesterday at an old housesite. It's marked at the top :
Rice W. Harris
15th march 184?
No 5857

At the bottom, there is a large pictogram shown in the picture. It's 2" in diameter and made in brass.

Ever seen anything like this ? I haven't found any references to the name on the Internet.

 

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[johnnyi]

Just some observations; It seems to be the back of a two piece object, such as the back of a two piece button, which once had a designed disk attached. Although it looks almost as though it could have been a rossette (and may be one), it seems too concave and the attachment loop seems a little to big. There were such things as kercheif or scarf slides during the Victorian period, and it might possibly have been the back to one of those.

 

[PBK]

The British registration markings represent the following:

III = glass

H = 1843

W = March

Rd = registered

15 = day of month

1 = bale or lot #

Census records of the period list Rice W. Harris as a glassmaker in Birmingham, England.

Another source cites him as one of the early U.K. manufacturers of pressed glass, in the 1830's.

Yet another states that at the Great Exhibition of 1851, "Rice Harris & Son were according to sparse records the only glassmaker to exhibit pressed and moulded tumblers, goblets, wine glasses, sugar basins, salts, honey pots, butter coolers, and doorknobs."

 

[Monty]

Hard to tell the size, but it resembles the bottom of an old flashlight tube. Monty

 

[johnnyi]

Good info Monty. Maybe it was a slide or rosette that had a glass domed front.

 

[Angelo]

The British registration markings represent the following:

III = glass

H = 1843

W = March

Rd = registered

15 = day of month

1 = bale or lot #

Census records of the period list Rice W. Harris as a glassmaker in Birmingham, England.

Another source cites him as one of the early U.K. manufacturers of pressed glass, in the 1830's.

Yet another states that at the Great Exhibition of 1851, "Rice Harris & Son were according to sparse records the only glassmaker to exhibit pressed and moulded tumblers, goblets, wine glasses, sugar basins, salts, honey pots, butter coolers, and doorknobs."

Way tooooo much information. Let's keep guessing.

 

[mojjax]

A chemist named Rice W. Harris came over from England in 1866 , on the steamer ''Persia"

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