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F. & C. Osler were established in Birmingham in Great Charles Street in 1807, the partners being Thomas Osler and William Shakespeare. After Abraham Follet Osler, Thomas's son, joined the partnership in 1831, the firm was moved to Broad Street and engine power added to the means of production allowing the manufacturing of chandeliers to be greatly increased. One of their most famous creations was the 'crystal fountain' that formed the centrepiece of the 1851 Great Exhibition. They continued in the production of high-quality glass chandeliers until well past 1900, including the exportation of glass light-fittings and chandeliers to India and for Ibrahim Pascha of Egypt (M. Mortimer, The English Glass Chandelier, Woodbridge, 2000, pp. 156-157).