Posted by James Pepper on December 28, 1999 at 21:51:14 in 205.188.198.157 :
In Reply to: Re: dome glass again posted by Mark Darrah on December 27, 1999 at 22:31:34:
Was this type of glass work the work of Harland and Wolff or was it a subcontractor? If someone else did it, the work may be on file at their company. Especially if it was a Tiffany production of any other major glass works, there may be records of it elsewhere.
I lived in Thomas Edison's Son's house, part of the Edison National Historic Site in West Orange, New Jersey. This house was a huge old Victorian House and Thomas Edison had another huge Victorian house moved next to it. They thought big back then! They were connected with a staircase that came down into a Tiffany glass dining room. To restore sections of the room, builders consulted with Tiffany in New York, and with various historical societies and clubs involved in Tiffany works. I have seen other houses that have this type of skylight in them, similar to the Titanic. You can see this type of skylight all over New York City, especially in older homes, or entrances to apartment houses on fifth avenue and Park avenue. Usually they are not as large as the ship's designs, but in Boston, there is a house that was on This Old House that had a very ornate skylight from Tiffany, a few years back, it is close to the esplanade, just in a block on the street that parallels Boylston, two streets north. One tip for you, do not try to remove plaster medallions from ceilings in the hope of restoring them, you can not do it, take a cast. Sorry Sean for diverting from the topic, but the craftmanship on the Titanic is similar to the craftmanship in these historical places, and I know that records existed for these projects elsewhere.
Sincerely,
James Pepper