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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;DragonflyWink, post: 3733327, member: 111&quot;]Didn&#039;t see a problem with the Stevens &amp; Williams attribution, but you&#039;d know the glass better than I - do you think it&#039;s not S&amp;W?&nbsp; Could just be a case of info from a sales description spreading online, but importing English glass wouldn&#039;t have been unlikely at all, Gorham was a huge concern at the time, their design department led by Englishman Wm. C. Codman.&nbsp; They even opened a London storefront, and registered their mark in 1904, opening a Birmingham workshop in 1909 (I&#039;ve a pair of B&#039;ham-made Gorham napkin rings from that year).</p><p><br /></p><p>Here&#039;s the catalog from that first crazy-high auction result, with several other examples of Stevens &amp; Williams glass (pages 34, 36, 37, 38):</p><p><br /></p><p><a href="https://issuu.com/dumouchelles/docs/dumouchelleartgallery201409septembe/38" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://issuu.com/dumouchelles/docs/dumouchelleartgallery201409septembe/38" rel="nofollow">https://issuu.com/dumouchelles/docs/dumouchelleartgallery201409septembe/38</a> </p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p>Boy, it sure does - just ran across a dozen or so Gorham spoons from the same U.S. seller, including a couple of American souvenir spoons, misidentified as Birmingham.&nbsp; Suspect the second auctioned inkwell is not &quot;Birmingham&quot;, as described, the only marks shown belong to 1890s American firm Bachrach &amp; Freedman, retailers as well as manufacturers, with storefronts in New York, Chicago and San Francisco - there does appear to obscured marks under the hinge (same place as the OP&#039;s piece)...</p><p><br /></p><p><a href="https://www.lelandlittle.com/items/129547/stevens-williams-cut-glass-inkwell/" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://www.lelandlittle.com/items/129547/stevens-williams-cut-glass-inkwell/" rel="nofollow">https://www.lelandlittle.com/items/129547/stevens-williams-cut-glass-inkwell/</a></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p>~Cheryl[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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