Description
Autograph Letter Signed, seeking recognition of his work as the “Inventor & Manufacturer of the Royal Clarence Glass vase”, citing Mr. Beckford’s letter on the subject. 1 page 9 x 7 inches, in good condition, remains of guard where formerly mounted. September 1835. John Gunby, manufacturer. William Hone, in his “Day-Book” for 1831, says, “This superb glass vase, designed by John Gunby, and exhibited at the Queen’s Bazaar, Oxford Street, London, is an immense basin of copper, and its iron shaft or foot clothed with two thousand four hundred pieces of glass, construct a vase fourteen feet high and twelve feet wide across the brim, weighing upwards of eight tons, and capable of holding eight pipes of wine….”