Page 31 - BBR magazine 140 - 30yrs issue

Above: John Ault green glass, sheared lip, slipper.
Finally Mr Ault was rather upset he missed this slipper on fleabay - but I was happy to reassure him it is almost certainly a perfume.
These “neck in the toe bottles” as known mostly from the USA but were also made in Copenhagen (the Kastrop Glassworks). Sometimes with the letters ‘PD’, ‘C.M.R’ or
‘L.M.’ on the instep; other include on slightly less ornate probably American made bottles, that have only small buckles
embossed and more evenly tooled ring lips. Of these ‘PHALON NY’, is recorded labelled as well as ones for Guernsey and H. P. & C. R. Taylor of
Philadelphia all labelled for rose oil - again simply proving they are scents. This is unusual in being green and with a burst lip.
John Lex Long
Way back in 2008 (BBR 115, p16) we featured one of these odd little Diamond Registry pots embossed 'JOHN JEX LONG / 40 NELSON / STREET / GLASGOW', registered in 1858 by John Jex
Long of ‘Duke Street in Glasgow’.
We had trouble tracking down his line of business and therefore what this pot might be. As we said, in 115, the curious thing
about it is it was registered in glass not ceramic! When Mr Austin (Piskey1 on eBay) put another up, we tried again and www delivered this time - so we can finally pin him down as a ‘tool, cutler and gun supplier’ as these adverts show.
But he was also an early matchmaker and seller, important enough to be one of only two firms (Bryant’s being the other) to be called such before the Royal Commission on Factories & Workshops in the mid 1870’s.
They were checking on the notorious conditions in these but scandalously did not interview a single worker taking the blasé word of the “... everything’s fine and dandy” manufacturers.
Long’s match splint cutting machine patented in 1871 could turn out a
staggering 17 million matches a day! He began in the match trade in 1852 and was vice chair of the Royal Philosophical Society of Glasgow proceedings, until he died in 1893.
The pot itself however is nothing to do with matches but is actually a blacking pot - think boot polish - and was noted by The Practical Mechanic in the year it was patented but the address given is 46 Trongate, Glasgow. The different addresses, confusing research, indicating his different interests.
Above: blacking pot notice from 1851.
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