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• Identified new vault light manufacturer Schulz & Voelker of Chicago via this trade card [600 DPI scan].
• American Luxfer Prism Company cancelled envelope from 1903
• The little green lens cover from the Whatsits Gallery has been identified by Regan Brumagen as part of an electric sign.
• 1855 invoice from Boston ironmongers Smith & Lovett
• 1904 invoice from New York ironmongers Jacobs & Sons
• 1907 estimate from The British Luxer Prism Syndicate, Limited
• Gage Glasses

Finished coding PAT 1.1, and am working on the release now! Will get back to glass updates after it's out. In the meantime, I posted my new public domain country and regional maps, just to get them out there, since it will take another month or two to wrap up the release.

Improved Square Life Belts 1894 W. & J. Tiebout catalog: Marine and Yacht Hardware

The new country maps have much more detail (including topo), and now all 238 entities with an ISO country code are mapped. There are also 46 region maps, 50 US state maps, and more to come.

• 1842 cut of the interior of Apsley Pellatt's Falcon Glass House.
• Deck prisms in two new marine hardware catalogs:
  • 1894 W. & J. Tiebout Catalogue of Marine and Yacht Hardware.
  • 1949 Davey & Co. Marine hardware catalogue #9
• Photos of deck prisms recovered from shipwrecks, courtesy Captain Daniel Berg of aquaexplorers.com.
• New US manufacturer identified, G.W. and H. Smith of Boston, a 16" illuminated iron cover by whom was sold on eBay.
• Keppler's seminal 1909 patent, Improvements in or relating to Reinforced Concrete Structures.