I haven’t posted any of these for quite some time.

So here are three views of the North Cascade and Tower at the Empire Exhibition, Scotland, 1938, held in Glasgow’s Bellahouston Park.

First one of Brain Gerald’s art-drawn postcards:-

This is a very similar view but is a colourised photograph:-

This one, also a colourised photograph, omits the fountain:-

The tin lid shows one of the two Scotland Pavilions which sat opposite each other on the Scottish Avenue. This same Scotland Pavilion was pictured on the jigsaw I featured a few weeks ago.

Also displayed on the upper right of the tin’s lid is the Exhibition’s red lion logo.

The Empire Exhibition of 1938 spawned many items of memorabilia. Various versions of the Tower of Empire (this category, passim) were made from china, metal or plastic; there were handkerchiefs with pictures of the Exhibition buildings, as well as the artist painted coloured ones many sepia photographic postcards were produced, leather items embossed with the Tower or the Exhibition lion, playing cards, matchbooks, commemorative glass tumblers, jigsaws, innumerable tins, all sorts of stuff.

Among these was a set of china cups, plates, dishes etc in deco style made by Carlton Ware and featuring a picture of Tait’s Tower in shades of green, brown and cream. For these the sole seller was Treron of Glasgow, a department store located in Sauchiehall Street (now of course no more.) The legend “supplied by Treron of Glasgow” was stamped on the base of each.

The dish shown below, with its angular lugs, is perhaps the most deco of these in feel.

Another artist drawn postcard of the Empire Exhibition, Scotland, 1938. This time the United Kingdom Pavilion building.

The artist who drew the paintings featured on these postcards, issued by the manufacturer Valentine’s, was called Brian Gerald. A list of all the cards he painted can be found here.