Series
Records of the Department of National Heritage and Successors: Arts and Heritage...
Catalogue reference: PF 290
Date: 1970-2008
This series contains files relating to the Eyre Review
Series
Office of the Registrar of Designs: Design Copyright Act 1839 Representations
Catalogue reference: BT 42
What's it about?
BT 42
These are the designs submitted to the Office of the Registrar of Designs under the 1839 Copyright of Designs Act (2 & 3 Vict c 17). The records in this series comprise the two copies of the designs which were submitted to the registrar....
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Reference (The unique identifier to the record described, used to order and refer to it)
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BT 42
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Title (The name of the record)
- Office of the Registrar of Designs: Design Copyright Act 1839 Representations
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Date (When the record was created)
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1839-1842
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Description (What the record is about)
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These are the designs submitted to the Office of the Registrar of Designs under the 1839 Copyright of Designs Act (2 & 3 Vict c 17).
The records in this series comprise the two copies of the designs which were submitted to the registrar.
There are no registers; registration was effected by the affixing of a certificate to each representation.
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Arrangement (Information about the filing sequence or logical order of the record)
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Arrangement
There is a single numerical series covering both lots of designs.
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Held by (Who holds the record)
- The National Archives, Kew
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Legal status (A note as to whether the record being described is a Public Record or not)
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Public Record(s)
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Language (The language of the record)
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English
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Creator(s) (The creator of the record)
- Office of the Registrar of Designs, 1839-1852
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Physical description (The amount and form of the record)
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17 volume(s)
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Restrictions on use (Information on restrictions to the use or reproduction of the material)
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Due to the nature of the samples held within these volumes, some items may not have survived. The records in this series are subject to special handling instructions due to their size and condition, production to the reading rooms may be delayed
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Subjects (Categories and themes found in our collection (our subject list is under development, and some records may have no subjects or fewer than expected))
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- Topics
- Art, architecture and design
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Unpublished finding aids (A note of unpublished indexes, lists or guides to the record)
- An incomplete set of indexes to the designs is in BT 44 33/38. There are two other supplementary finding aids. (1) an alphabetical index of proprietors of designs (ie designers or the owners of copyright in the designs); this gives the registered number of the design. (2) arranged by design number and gives the design, the name of the proprietor and the TNA reference. Both of these finding aids are available in the reading rooms at The National Archives, Kew.
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Administrative / biographical background (Historical or biographical information about the creator of the record and the context of its creation)
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The 1839 Copyright of Designs Act (2 & 3 Vict c 17) provided protection for the design of the ornamentation, shape or configuration of all manufactured articles and for the designs on textile fabrics, except for lace and for fabrics made from linen, cotton, calico, muslin, wool, silk, hair and for mixtures of those fabrics which had been protected by earlier legislation (27 Geo III c 38, 34 Geo III c 23 identified as being statute relevant to designs and printing on fabric etc. c 23 and 2 & 3 Vict c 13). In September 1842 the 1839 act was replaced by a piece of consolidating and amending legislation (5 & 6 Vict c 100).
Under the 1839 Act, proprietors were required to submit three copies or drawings of their designs, two of which were to be retained by the Registrar who was also responsible for maintaining a classified index of designs.
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Record URL
- https://beta.nationalarchives.gov.uk/catalogue/id/C3085/
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