Furniture & Other Treasures
Note: PM Peter Rawlinson photographed and recorded the details of the assets of the Glass Sellers of London Livery Company.
A large flat case containing the Charters of Charles I & Charles II
- Reference Number: 5.1
- Item: A large flat case containing the Charters of Charles I & Charles II.
- Presented by: Not specified
- Date of Gift/Purchase: 1664
- Location: Guildhall
Two sets of By-Laws
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- Reference Number: 5.2
- By-Laws: Two sets (Temp. Charles I, and Charles II.)
- Presented by: (Information not provided)
- Date of Gift/Purchase: 1664
- Location: Guildhall
The Poor Box
- Reference Number: 5.3
- Item: The Poor Box
- Fine William & Mary walnut, ebony, and marquetry
- Tapered square pedestal form
- Hinged cover with tooled brass loop handle and coin slot
- Inlaid inscription: “Pray remember ye poor”
- Tulips and carnations within a foliate border
- Walnut cushion moulded edge above four inlaid sides
- Front inlaid with Royal Cipher and engraved white metal shields
- Sides inlaid with Heraldic arms of the Glass Sellers’ Co & the City of London
- Reverse inlaid with inscription: “The Gift of John Green Senira Member of this compani March TE 25 1690”
- Tulip and carnation sprays on each side within matching foliate borders
- Walnut cushioned pedestal foot
- Dimensions: Cover (18.5 x 18.5 cm), Plinth (19 x 19 cm), Height (25.7 cm), Sides at top (16.5 cm) and base (17.5 cm)
- Late 19th Century oak
- Presented by: John Greene
- Date of Gift/Purchase: 1679
- Location: Stationers’ Hall
The Master’s Chair
- Reference Number: 5.4
- Item: The Master’s Chair
- George 1st red walnut and giltwood Master’s Chair
- High upholstered back with a pierced arched giltwood crest
- Crest carved with shells, acanthus, and scrolls around a shield
- Shield carved with the Glass Sellers’ Arms
- Mirror inset with a later plate and “M.P.”
- Shaped padded arms on shaped supports
- Stuff-over seat on shell carved cabriole legs
- Joined by a turned “H shaped” stretcher
- Circa 1715
- Restoration to rails and block
- Note: Master A L Howard repaired the chair on 15.12.1943. The original Walnut was fine but other parts were affected by worm or beetle. These were replaced by Burmese Pyinkado wood (Xylia dolobriformis), expected to last for very many years.
- Presented by: Robert Croshaw
- Date of Gift/Purchase: 1704
- Location: Stationers’ Hall
The Beadle’s Mace
- Reference Number: 5.5
- Item: The Beadle’s Mace
- Mid 18th Century silver gilt ceremonial staff
- Finial of disc form with an urn and floral swag cast finial
- Floral drape cast moulded frame on an acanthus cast socle
- Inlaid with a reverse engraved mirrored and verre eglomise circular panel (cracked) of the Glass Sellers’ Arms
- Reverse with a plain mirror plate
- Later two-section turned ebony staff with the original upper threaded mount and later lower mounts
- In a mahogany case
- Diameter of panel frame: 18.5 cm
- Height from socle to finial: 20.5 cm
- Height of staff: 154 cm
- Presented by: Robert Croshaw
- Date of Gift/Purchase: 1704
- Location: Stationers’ Hall
A wooden gavel
- Reference Number: 5.9
- Item: Wooden Gavel
- Dimensions: 8.7″ long by 3″ wide
- Inscribed “1950” on the center of the head
- Inscribed “The Worshipful Company of Glass Sellers. Presented by A Desmond Rawlinson” on the side
- Presented by: A. D. Rawlinson
- Date of Gift/Purchase: 1963
- Location: Stationers’ Hall
Display of Glass rocks and chippings
- Reference Number: 5.10
- Item: Wooden Box with Glass Display
- Dimensions: 40.5 x 45.7 cm
- Contains a 28 cm circular central display of Glass rocks and chippings
- Wired up for rear lighting
- Plaque reads “Manufactured by Thermal Syndicate Limited and presented to The Worshipful Company of Glass Sellers 1969”
- Presented by: Thermal Syndicate Limited
- Date of Gift/Purchase: 1969
- Location: Stationers’ Hall
The Immediate Past Master’s Chair
- Reference Number: 5.11
- Item: The Immediate Past Master’s Chair
- Style: Late 17th Century oak high-backed chair
- Features:
- Arched panelled back with a foliate carved arched crest
- Fluted frieze that continues to scale carved scrolled arms on fluted columns
- Plank seat with a fluted rail on fluted turned tapered legs
- Joined by fluted bar stretchers
- Inset with a Charles II rosewood and marquetry panel inlaid with the Arms of the Glass Sellers’ Company
- Inscribed “Major Humphrey Kilby, Mr Richard Sadler, John Green Wardens 1671”, the panel 41.5 by 67 cms
- The reverse of the chair is inset with two brass plaques
- First Plaque reads: “Presented to The Worshipful Company of Glass Sellers in 1974 by Cyril H Nathan Master 1934/35 and his son Michael R Nathan Master 1973/74”
- Second Plaque states: “The Company’s Minute of 6th February 1672 records authorization of a payment for a chest lately made for the Company and undoubtedly the piece of marquetry forming the chair back was part of the lid of this chest”
- Circa 1900
- Presented by: C. H. & M. R. Nathan
- Date of Gift/Purchase: 1974
- Location: Stationers’ Hall
Gavel & Block
- Reference Number: 5.12
- Item: Gavel & Block
- Wooden Stand:
- Dimensions: 17.8 x 33 cm
- Contains 2 recesses to hold the gavel
- Mahogany Gavel:
- Dimensions: 21 x 7.5 cm
- Designed in the form of a Mason’s mallet
- End features an inlaid silver plaque
- Plaque Inscription: “Presented by G A Bone Master1968 – 1969”
- Wooden Stand:
- Presented by: G. A. Bone
- Date of Gift/Purchase: 1975
- Location: Stationers’ Hall
A leather-bound Case
- Reference Number: 5.13
- Item: A leather-bound Case
- Purpose: For the Master’s use to hold the Jewel of Office
- Presented by: W. E. C. Stuart
- Date of Gift/Purchase: 1977
- Location: The Master of the Year
Gold and diamond inset applique panel
- Reference Number: 5.15
- Item: A 9-Carat tri-colour gold and diamond inset applique panel
- Designed by: William Tolliday
- Depicts: London Bridge in the Mid 17th Century
- Features:
- Buildings on bridge inset with 4 baguette diamonds and 2 brilliant-cut small diamonds
- Mounted on a painted river and sky reserve
- Set in a gold coloured frame
- Dimensions:
- Frame: 31.2 x 26.5 cm, Depth of 6 cm
- Recessed central panel: 20.3 x 15.3 cm
- Presented by: J. G. Clark
- Date of Gift/Purchase: 1990
- Location: Stationers’ Hall
A Blue leather-bound book
- Reference Number: 5.17
- Item: A blue leather-bound book
- Size: 11.7″ by 14″
- Front Cover: Embossed in gold with “The Worshipful Company of Glass Sellers and Looking Glass Makers of London – Coat of Arms”
- Contents:
- First Section: The specimen new Coat of Arms
- Second Section: A list of the 63 Livery Subscribers to the cost of the Grant of Arms in alphabetical order
- Packaging: Contained in a grey box
- Acquisition: Purchased
- Date of Purchase: 2009
- Location: Stationers’ Hall
Presentation manuscript for the new Coat of Arms
- Reference Number: 5.18
- Item: Presentation manuscript for the new Coat of Arms
- Storage: Housed in a red box
- Box Dimensions: 4″ deep, 3.5″ wide, and 21.75″ long
- Box Design: Engraved “E11R” in gold
- Storage: Housed in a red box
- Acquisition: Purchased
- Date of Purchase: 2009
- Location: Metropolitan Archives
English Bone China Plate with central 2009 Coat of Arms
- Reference Number: 5.19
- Description: A 25.6cm English Bone China Plate with central 2009 Coat of Arms & with the Glass Sellers’ name around the top, contained in a box by Susan Rose
- Distribution: Copies were presented to the 10 members of the Coat of Arms Committee, Master, past 3 IPMs, Hon.Clerk, & Windsor Herald. Others were later sold to the Livery but with the words “of London” added to the name of the Glass Sellers
- Presented by: E. R. Mobbs
- Date of Gift/Purchase: 2010
- Location: Stationers’ Hall
Ship’s Crest on a wooden base
- Reference Number: 5.19
- Description: A red box 18 x 21.8cm, containing the ship’s Crest on a wooden base, “Artful”
- Presented by: HMS Artful
- Date of Gift/Purchase: 2014
- Location: Stationers’ Hall
Die for gold blocking
- Reference Number: N/A
- Description: Die for gold blocking
- Presented by:
- Date of Gift/Purchase:
- Location: Stationers’ Hall
Company Attendance Book
- Reference Number: N/A
- Description: Company Attendance Book
- Presented by: Not specified
- Date of Gift/Purchase:
- Location: Stationers’ Hall
Company Declaration Book
- Reference Number: N/A
- Description: Company Declaration Book
- Presented by: N/A
- Date of Gift/Purchase:
- Location: Stationers’ Hall
