Stevens & Williams
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Stevens & Williams was an English glass company located in Stourbridge
Stourbridge
Stourbridge is a town within the Metropolitan Borough of Dudley, in the West Midlands of England. Historically part of Worcestershire, Stourbridge was a centre of glass making, and today includes the suburbs of Amblecote, Lye, Norton, Oldswinford, Pedmore, Wollaston, Wollescote and Wordsley The...

, established in 1776 under the name of Honeybourne.

Its most notable cameo glass
Cameo Glass
Cameo glass is a luxury form of glass art produced by etching and carving through fused layers of differently colored glass to produce designs, usually with white opaque glass figures and motifs on a dark-colored background...

 dated from the 1880s when the studio was under the direction of John Northwood. He was also known for the very unusual Moss agate glass
Moss agate glass
Moss Agate glass is a type of art glass developed in 1888 at the noted glasshouse Stevens & Williams by glassmaker John Northwood, with the assistance of Will Bridges, then manager of the firm...

vases.

Other engravers at the Stevens & Williams company included:
Joshua Hodgetts (1858 -1933).
Frederick Carder (1864-1963) Worked at Stevens & Williams between 1881-1902. (Also founded Steuben Glass Works in Corning, New York in 1903.)
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