SILVER SOCIETY SCHOLARSHIP IN MEMORY OF TIMOTHY ARTHUR KENT 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 from 27 June to 12 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 2026 Summer School, [Read More]
We are delighted to announce that Anna Olafsson is this year’s winner of the 2025 Silver Society Prize for her “Arctic Tern Vessel”. Epona Smith received a highly creditable second prize for her “Echoes of Joy” beakers. Anna Ólafsson MFA (DJCAD) is a British-Icelandic artist and designer based in the Scottish Borders. Working across the fields of drawing, painting, printmaking, etching and engraving, she makes artworks from metal, paper and light, inspired by the [Read More]
Auction on 18 August 2025. Gibson’s, Australia Viewing 14,15,16 August John Batt, a long-standing member of the Silver Society (based in Australia) and an avid collector of British and American silver, maintained extensive correspondence with fellow members over many years on hallmark identification, provenance, and rarity. Due to ill health, his entire collection is being auctioned by Gibson’s in Melbourne later this month. Click Here to View Auction Details
£35.00 Click here to buy now. ELLENOR ALCORN AND WOLF BURCHARD The Dashwood Tea Chest by Paul de Lamerie 5 DORA THORNTON The Story of an Anonymous Gift to the Goldsmiths’ Company Collection 12 PETER KAELLGREN George Manjoy, Specialist Toy Maker 16 STEPHANIE SOUROUJON Silver Yads from the Barr Collection 22 DAVID STOKES What’s in a name? The Legacy of the Goldsmith Richard Crossley 25 DORA THORNTON The Coronation Cup 31 WYNYARD WILKINSON Oomersi Mawhi [Read More]
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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]
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