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Journal of The Glass Association Volume 5 - Whitefriars Lookalikes
This is Volume 5 of the Journal of the Glass Association released in 1997. The Glass Association, founded in 1983 and based in Broadfield House Glassmuseum seeks to research glass and educate all those interested in glass in all matters to do with the subject. In 1985 they released their first journal which they then released roughly every three years. It generally deals with the history of glass from the 18th to 20th centuries. They have articles written by some of the most eminent experts, authors and collectors of glass.
Arguably one of the most interesting articles in Volume 5 is a great piece by Lesley Jackson on Whitefriars Lookalikes, 15 pages long with colour and b&w photos. Lesley Jackson is most famous for her work on the book "Whitefriars Glass: The Art of James Powell & Sons" which was produced to accompany the exhibition of the same name at Manchester City Art Galleries in 1996. The article in this particular journal follows on from this in that one of the difficulties experienced in researching for the exhibition were the sheer number of pieces by contemporaries that were so similar. After the Whitefriars factory shut in 1980 any interest in the company waned for several years and much of the knowledge was lost.
The article was written to complement Jacksons book. The exhibition involved extensive research to weed out non-Whitefriars pieces by obtaining hard facts rather than relying on long held assumptions. The article starts off with the mid Nineteenth century and goes up to the pre WWII era. There is some info on post war glass but as this is so well documented and catalogued, in depth analysis is not so important. Many other factories are covered such as Webb, Stuart, Stevens & Williams and the Stourbridge area where similarities exist.
Below is the full list of all the articles in the Journal. If you require any more information on these then let me know.
A Lost Stourbridge Glassworks Rediscovered.
Cellars of Glass.
Three Edinburgh Engravers: The Work of Adolph Melzer, Augustine Storch & Alexander Beutlich Millar
Whitefriars Lookalikes by Lesley Jackson
The Survival of Traditional Design in Stourbridge.
Automated Glass Production in Britain Since 1945.
The Davenport Glassworks in the 19th Century.
The Journal is in very good condition with minimal wear. The whole journal has 88 pages.
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