William G. Webb

The 1948 Olympic work entitled Presentation Chalice was produced at Stourbridge Art and Technical College at the request of Major Longden (1875-1954), director of the British Arts Council. It was an engraved crystal glass chalice designed by Jack Downing, principal of the Stourbridge college, and Charles Stanier, the school’s instructor in glass making, and was engraved by W. G. Webb, the instructor in glass decoration.

The Olympic exhibit was presented to the Mayor of Stourbridge to commemorate the visit of the Princess Royal to Stourbridge in November 1949. It contained the engraved Coats of Arms of both the Princess and the borough of Stourbridge.

In 1944, a Webb-engraved glass goblet was also made in Stourbridge for the opening of the “New Uses for Glass” exhibition in Stoke-on-Trent. It was presented to the City Museum by the Mayor of Stoke.