Val Saint Lambert Glass
“Val Saint Lambert was founded in Seraing, near Liege, Belgium, in 1825, the same year the Boston & Sandwich Glass Company was founded. Originally it occupied the grounds of an old Cisterian Abbey. There were twelve workers. Its first catalogue, issued in 1829, included pressed ware, which incidentally had been introduced by Jarves at Sandwich two years earlier. In 1835 Val St. Lambert exhibited candelabras and a “Vase Medicis” of huge proportions. The company prospered from the beginning and from time to time bought other factories. In 1878 it employed 1600 workers and by 1896 the number had risen to 7,872.
The Encyclopedia of Glass Paperweights.