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taken into partnership with George Gatchell. The partnership 

 with Saunders was dissolved in 1848 and George Gatchell alone 

 carried on the business. In 1842 George Gatchell & Co. opened 

 a warehouse at 103 George Street, Limerick, as a branch establish- 

 ment, for the sale of their glass, which included cut and plain glass 

 of every description, every article made of glass for use, luxury and 

 ornament, also chandeliers, lustres, lamps, hall bells, and can- 

 delabra in bronze, ormolu and glass. Medical establishments were 

 also supplied with glass. 



In May, 1849, owing to alterations being made in the Water- 

 ford Flint Glass Works, a quantity of cut glass was advertised to 

 be sold by auction, including decanters, claret jugs, water jugs, 

 liqueur bottles, carafes, pickle urns, salad, celery and sugar bowls, 

 butter coolers, cream ewers, custard and jelly glasses and about 

 three hundred dozen tumblers, goblets and wine glasses. 



The factory was carried on for a couple of years, but, probably 

 owing to the English competition, it was closed in 1851, thus 

 terminating the manufacture of flint glass in Waterford. 



In the Waterford Evening News of October, loth, 185 1, the 

 following advertisement appears : — " The well-known Waterford 

 glass manufactory bemg about to close, the proprietor, George 

 Gatchell, orders to be sold on Wednesday, October 20th, 1851, 

 the entire stock of glass, including dinner and table lamps, gas 

 chandeliers, one crystal chandelier for six lights, together with 

 beautiful specimens of Bohemian and Venetian glass." In 

 February, 1852, a 7 horse power steam engine, a variety of glass 

 materials, tools, fixtures, office furniture, etc., were ordered to be 

 sold. 



George Gatchell & Co., obtained silver medals at the Royal 

 Dublin Society's Exhibitions of 1835 and 1838, for cut flint glass, 

 including a richly cut glass flower vase and dish. In the Society's 

 Exhibition of 1850 they exhibited a massive crystal centre bowl 

 with tripod stand, two sugar bowls and twelve carafes and tumblers 

 richly cut, and also a centre bowl and stand, two liqueur bottles and 

 six carafes and tumblers all opaque blue and white on crystal glass. 

 It is presumed that these pieces in the Bohemian style were made 



