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169 (Later Series) 'Rocket-shaped' lamp base.
No example is recorded.
Does this shape appear in other series? No - (none recorded in image database)
Height; from sketch details, 12 - 13 cm.
Like other Later Series shapes this number appears in shape books 'A' and 'B'. The document reproduced here however is not from a shape book but is - quite literally - a 'back-of-envelope' document. The front of the envelope carries a postmark, dated 21 July 1954.
The sketch shows the lamp upside-down, presumably because that was how it was thrown on the wheel. The list "Making 60, Turn 60, Clean 60" refers to hourly rates of production. It took potter Allan James just one minute to make each lamp base!
Allan & Myrtle James collection