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October 13, 2009 New early glass block patents transcribed (first would be impractical due to difficulty annealing the thick glass sections): 250,635 · McLean · Manufacture of Glass Building-Blocks for Sea-Walls, &c. 628,821 · Lasch · Hollow Glass Block Finished transcribing 1898 patents: 596,881 · Jacobs · Illuminating-Grating 596,882 · Jacobs · Illuminating-Grating 596,883 · Jacobs · Illuminating-Grating D28,218 · Cummings · Design for a Prism-Light 600,880 · Magnusen · Sidewalk-Light Construction 603,799 · Sullivan · Illuminating-Lens for Sidewalks D28,909 · Millet · Design for a Prism-Light 606,554 · Jacobs · Ventilating Vault-Cover D29,044 · Magnusen · Design for a Vault-Light 607,792 · Winger · Window Pane or Light D29,113 · Winger · Design for a Window-Light D29,114 · Winger · Design for a Window-Light D29,399 · Mahony · Design for a Vault-Light 614,327 · Jacobs · Light for Sidewalks, &c. D29,805 · Cummings · Design for a Prism-Window D29,806 · Cummings · Design for a Prism-Window D29,807 · Cummings · Design for a Prism-Window D29,808 · Cummings · Design for a Prism-Window D29,809 · Cummings · Design for a Prism-Window D29,810 · Cummings · Design for a Prism-Window Identified new US prism glass maker Daylight Glass Mfg. Co of Philadelphia from this advertising card August 2, 2009 Gallery of vault lights in Dunedin, New Zealand, courtesy Doug Hopkins of that town. July 19, 2009 Overmyer's Threaded Glass Drawer Knobs July 13, 2009 Finally found the patent for the Hard Mfg Co. "insulator"-- which was suspected of being a furniture glide but now is confirmed. It's patent No. 1,187,378 dated June 13, 1916 and issued to Alexander F. Osborn and assigned to Hard Manufacturing Company. French article on Les Prismes «Luxfer» from the NOUVELLES INVENTIONS section of L'Illustration No. 2942 (!), 15 July, 1899. Pictures of Falconnier #8 and #9 briques at spa Luhacovice in the Czech republic, courtesy Pavel Trtik (see his original page [archived] on architect Dušan Jurkovic). July 9, 2009 Finished Hayward Brothers & Eckstein catalogue. You can download the entire catalogue as a 300DPI color scan here (150MB tar) July 5, 2009 Next two dozen pages of the Hayward Brothers & Eckstein catalogue June 27, 2009 First 36 pages of a ca 1900 Hayward Brothers & Eckstein catalogue New Falconnier pictures: Two period postcards of the Mumm caves façade surrounded by Falconnier bricks (now sadly missing), and a current shot (2008) by Jacques Mossot (courtesy Structurae) for comparison. June 16, 2009 Luxfer Prism Company of Toronto Catalogue June 6, 2009 Story of the Leo Popper & Sons Glass Button Business — 1870 – 1917 Silly French postcard with elves climbing telegraph pole