Victorian Dumps
Paperweights, Mantel Ornaments, Doorstops & Whimsies
by: Peter M Sellers
2009, Peter M Sellers, Great Britain
136 pages, soft cover, edition of 150 copies, call for price & availability
flyleaf: “Known by collectors and the trade as DUMPS, these unsophisticated objects were made by English glass bottle manufacturers during the period between 1820 and 1914, prior to the mechanisation of the industry.
The name DUMP was derived from the fact that they were made at the end of a day’s work from ‘dumped’ or left over glass.
In addition to many unique photographs, complete with explanatory descriptions, the author details the environmental and historical events surrounding the last ninety-three years of hand-blown bottle making in England which engendered the production of dumps by bottle glass workers.
A chapter is devoted to the rise and decline of the Kilner empire whose bottle makers produced their iconic self-documenting paperweights which are particularly valued by today’s dump collectors.”
