Are you interested in English country houses? Their owners, their silver, furniture, porcelain, libraries and gardens? And are you free to attend a 16 day residential course (28 June – 13 July), travelling across England with like-minded professionals from around the world? Then The Attingham Summer School needs you! And the Silver Society is delighted to announce a fully-funded scholarship for the 2025 Summer School, made possible by the generous bequest of scholar and collector [Read More]
This year’s Silver Society Prize saw young silversmiths from across the country submit entries for consideration by a panel of three judges. The standard of the submissions was fantastic, and the judges would like to thank and congratulate all those who took the time to enter. The ingenuity, craftsmanship and talent demonstrated by the applicants was fantastic to see, and the judges deliberated at length before selecting the winner. The Silver Society Prize for [Read More]
We're a charity based in the Scottish Borders that hosts the Marchmont Silversmithing Workshop, a fully-equipped silversmithing workshop which houses tools, machinery and books by the late Master silversmith Graham Stewart. The workshop supports three early career silversmiths to launch their businesses over a two-year tenancy, with guidance from an experienced mentor. The workshop also provides shorter residencies for British and international silversmiths to develop new work and participate in cultural exchange. If you would [Read More]
£35.00 Click here to buy now. No 39 -2023 BRUCE JONES The de Lamerie Family Finances Explained EMMA BASHFORTH, WELDA LAJEAN CHAFFIN and JESSICA COLLINS Female Apprentices, Freewomen and Mistresses of the Goldsmiths’ Company 1578-1800 WILLIAM IRVINE FORTESCUE The Ledgers of John Rollo, Edinburgh Goldsmith of the Eighteenth Century FRANCES PARTON Commissioning the Cross of Wales DORA THORNTON A Footnote to the Coronation KAROLINA STEFANSKI A Vermeil Tureen and Cover LUKE SCHRAGER The [Read More]
The Goldsmiths' Company has recently launched an online library catalogue for The Goldsmiths’ Company Library. The Library’s holdings include many resources on silver and silversmithing from ancient times to the present day, as well as a wide selection of books on hallmarking and jewellery. The catalogue link can be accessed from the Library and Archives page on the Goldsmiths’ Company website www.thegoldsmiths.co.uk. For those accessing the newsletter online, please click here to go directly to [Read More]
The Silver Society has been working on a new website since the middle of last year and we are delighted to have now launched it from February. We hope you like it. Do please contact us if you have any comments or suggestions. The intention is that this new site will be easier to use and better convey the authority and status of the Society. The new site also now hosts the archive of all [Read More]
6 October 2022 Despite complications caused by rail strikes, a small group made it to Mount Stuart, the extraordinary house designed for the 3rd Marquess of Bute by Robert Rowand Anderson, the interiors of which were in fact never completed after the death of the Marquess. The morning was taken up with a tour of the house, with its views across the Clyde although somewhat shrouded in rain clouds, with its myriad interior details [Read More]
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The visit was attended by seventeen members. On arrival at the Hall we were greeted by the Beadle, who gave us an introduction to the history of the Company and some of its treasures. Following the Civil War and the Fire of London which destroyed the first Hall, the Company embarked on a policy of replacing silver which had been sequestered during the Civil War and those pieces destroyed in the fire by purchasing silver [Read More]
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