In 1873 Jesse Carter bought the Patent Encaustic and Mosaic Ornamental Brick and Tile Manufactory located in Poole, Dorset, after the owner, James Walker was declared bankrupt.   

Jesse established a thriving business called Carter & Company producing tiles and architectural ceramics.  In 1901 Jesse Carter retired and passed control to his sons, Charles & Owen.  

Around twenty years later, Cyril Carter, Charles’s son, met Harold Stabler and John and Truda Adams. John Stabler was a designer and silversmith, and Adams a designer and potter. In 1921 the company of Carter, Stabler and Adams was set up as a subsidiary of the Carter Company to produce ornamental and domestic pottery.   

Collectors of Poole Pottery today seek out the items produced by Carter, Stabler and Adams during the 1920’s and 1930’s.