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How do you differentiate between Stevens & Williams Moss Agate versus Steuben production?

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from Frederick Carder: Portrait of a Glassmaker by Paul V. Gardner

p.26-27

Carder was a master merchandiser and used many a sales pitch. He often remarked that when a color or shape was not selling as he thought it should, he doubled the price, and “it sold like a shot.”

For centuries, glassmakers have obtained many pleasing effects by combining powdered glass, mica, gold and silver leaf, and other materials between gathers (layers) of molten glass. Carder was familiar with these “inclusions” and had used this technique at Stevens & Williams to produce their Moss Agate glass. The Moss Agate made at Steuben was reminiscent of these English prototypes with variegated clouds of colors blended over an inner crackled network, all sheathed in gleaming crystal.

Rose

blue

orange

yellow

amethyst