Richly Cut Glass by Clapperton's - 1922
by Clapperton's
Richly Cut Glass
by Clapperton's
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Toronto: Clapperton's Limited, 1922. Oblong soft cover trade catalogue : 20pp : richly illustrated in b&w : green paper covers with dark green lettering and design : "confidential" price list dated 1922 loosely laid in.
Contact with water to the top quadrant close to the spine has left a light "V" shaped tidemark to to the inside margins throughout; lower corner of top cover lightly creased; the price list is toned and carries 3 numbers separated by a dash next to each item. Harry Griffiths Clapperton was born in 1873 in England. His father Walter was also a glass cutter and after the family emigrated to America in 1884 he learnt the trade at W. L. Libbey & Son Co. in Toledo, Ohio. Moving to Toronto in 1900 he worked for Gowans, Kent & Co. Ltd. before striking out in 1904 with salesman Nathaniel Frederick Gundy to create Gundy Clapperton and Co., Limited. Within a few short years they were to become one of the best known glass-cutting companies in Canada during the golden age of Canadian cut-glass (1900 -1920s). Sometime between 1915 and 1920 the two parted ways and the company continued as Clapperton's Limited. The "G" was dropped from their cloverleaf trademark leaving just the "C" in the centre. (Glass Facts Vol 3 no. 1, Winter 2008).
Contact with water to the top quadrant close to the spine has left a light "V" shaped tidemark to to the inside margins throughout; lower corner of top cover lightly creased; the price list is toned and carries 3 numbers separated by a dash next to each item. Harry Griffiths Clapperton was born in 1873 in England. His father Walter was also a glass cutter and after the family emigrated to America in 1884 he learnt the trade at W. L. Libbey & Son Co. in Toledo, Ohio. Moving to Toronto in 1900 he worked for Gowans, Kent & Co. Ltd. before striking out in 1904 with salesman Nathaniel Frederick Gundy to create Gundy Clapperton and Co., Limited. Within a few short years they were to become one of the best known glass-cutting companies in Canada during the golden age of Canadian cut-glass (1900 -1920s). Sometime between 1915 and 1920 the two parted ways and the company continued as Clapperton's Limited. The "G" was dropped from their cloverleaf trademark leaving just the "C" in the centre. (Glass Facts Vol 3 no. 1, Winter 2008).
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- Publisher Clapperton's Limited
- Place of Publication Toronto
- Date Published 1922
- Keywords Trade Catalogue; cut glass; golden age of Canadian cut glass
