Improvements in and relating to Glass Vases and the like.
Year: 1898

page_text: PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION.
Improvements in and relating to Glass Vases and the like.
I, JOHN BAIRD, of 71, Bishop Street, Port Dundas, in the County of the City
of Glasgow, Glass Beveller and Silverer, do hereby declare the nature of my
invention to be as follows:-
This invention has reference to and comprises improvements in and relating
to glass vases and the like and consists in an improved method of ornamenting
vases for mantlepiece ornaments and like articles by the fixing of photographic
prints of views or portraits on the inner surface of same and otherwise treating
them.
In its simplest form my invention consists in fixing photographs, printed in
colotype, photochrome, or silver prints on the inner surface of clear glass vases
or like articles so that the picture shows through the glass. The whole inner
surface of the vase is then coated with colour which is preferably varnish colour
or it may be silvered, and the back of the photographic prints may be first coated
with gelatine or other material which will prevent the varnish colour penetrating
through the paper, or the photo may be left uncoated by the colour. Borders or
other ornamentations may be hand painted on outside of vase as a finish. Other
wise the glass vase or other article may be coloured by coating it inside or out-
side with enamel colour and firing same on, and in this case a clear portion of
any desired shape would be left uncoloured behind which the photo print would
be fixed.
The glass vase or other article may have an ornamental raised border formed
on it to surround the clear portion where the photo print is to be fixed, or this
portion may be formed as a raised tablet on the vase. The article embellished
according to my improvements may also be cut, etched or engraved in any
desired pattern.
Improvements in and relating to Glass Vases and the likė,
I, JOHN BAIRD, of 71, Bishop Street, Port Dundas, in the County of the City
of Glasgow, Glass Beveller and Silverer, do hereby declare the nature of my
invention and in what manner the same is to be performed to be particularly
described and ascertained in and by the following statement, that is to say:
This invention has reference to and comprises improvements in and relating
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page_text: to glass vases and the like and consists in an improved method of ornamenting
vases for mantlepiece ornaments and like articles by the fixing of photographic
prints of views or portraits on the inner surface of same and otherwise treating
them.
In its simplest form my invention consists in fixing photographs, printed in
colotype, photochrome, or silver prints on the inner surface of clear glass vases
or like articles so that the picture shows through the glass. The whole inner
surface of the vase is then coated with colour which is preferably varnish colour
or it may be silvered, and the back of the photographic prints may be first coated
with gelatine or other material which will prevent the varnish colour penetrating
through the paper, or the photo may be left uncoated by the colour. Borders or
other ornamentations may be hand painted on outside of vase as a finish. Other-
wise the glass vase or other article may be coloured by coating it inside or out-
side with enamel colour and firing same on, and in this case a clear portion of
any desired shape would be left uncoloured behind which the photo print would
be fixed.
The glass vase or other article may have an ornamental raised border formed
on it to surround the clear portion where the photo print is to be fixed, or this
portion may be formed as a raised tablet on the vase. The article embellished
according to my improvements may also be cut, etched or engraved in any
desired pattern.
Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of my said
invention and in what manner the same is to be performed I declare that what
I claim is:-
First. The method of ornamenting glass vases and the like, consisting in fixing
photographic prints of views or portraits on the inner surfaces of the articles,
so that the picture shows through the glass, substantially as and in the manner
herein set forth.
Second. Glass vases and the like having photographic prints fixed on their
inner surfaces substantially as and in the manner herein set forth.
Date TI 1000
W. R. M. THOMSON & Co.,
90, Buchanan Street, Glasgow, Agents.