Thank you Marshall Ketchum for posting the advertising links, I may run out of ink before I run out of paper printing them.

John Styler
Prospect Heights, IL

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The Connoisseur Year Book

The Connoisseur Year Book 1961, p.39 by Thomas S. Buechner

“Carder entered the glass-making business in 1881 at Stevens and Williams after three years of work at his father’s pottery, G. Carder and Sons. He was hired as a designer, being responsible for both form and decoration. The table services, ornaments and vases in which the firm specialized were typical of the period. Frequently overlaid, or flashed and hen cut and engraved, they were generally embellished with classical elements or floral forms.

“At Stevens and Williams he was apparently the initiator of rock crystal engraving in which the rough surface left by the abrasive on the engraver’s wheel was polished to the same brilliance as the unadorned matrix. Inspired by an exhibition in Paris of seventeenth- and eighteenth-century rock crystal carving, this technique was introduced after Bohemian competition made the production of coloured glass unprofitable. To Frederick Carder also is attributed the introduction in this firm’s line of objects bearing acid-etched decoration. These were of two sorts; low lineal intaglio, generally classic in style on clear glass; and acid cameo in which an outer layer of glass of one colour was eaten away in a pattern to reveal the second layer of another colour. This process was partly responsible for the revival in England of the ancient art of glass cameo.”