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Collection of 136 objects of glassware

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This important bequest of 136 glass objects comes from the collection of the London antiques dealer Eila Grahame. Grahame ran her shop in Kensington Church Street from 1969 until her death in 2009 and specialised in English glass.

The Eila Grahame Bequest now joins the collection of Dudley Museums Service and will be on permanent loan to the White House Cone Museum of Glass, currently under construction in Stourbridge, due to open in summer 2018.

Stourbridge is a historic centre for English glassmaking, with production in the town and surrounding villages dating back to the 17th century. Between 1850 and 1900 it is said to have had the finest glass craftsmen in the western world.

The new White House Cone Museum will contain the remarkable collection previously held by Broadfield House Glass Museum, which closed in 2015. The museum will be managed by the British Glass Foundation trust in collaboration with Dudley Council. The collection’s main focus is 19th- and 20th-century Stourbridge glass, a type famous for cameo and other types of engraving techniques. The loan of the Eila Grahame Bequest, which includes important examples of 18th-century British glass, now makes this one of the finest collections of glass in the world.

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