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Geoffrey Bellamy
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Geoffrey Guy Bellamy: born 1922 died 1997. Freeman of the Worshipful Company of Goldsmiths. He often stamped his pieces with a facsimile signature.
In 1940 when he was 18 he joined the RAF and served until the end of the war flying Lancasters in 405 squadron before moving on to the Pathfinder force where he won the DFC and bar. He lost 2 crews, one while on sick-leave recovering from a flak wound, the other while he was seconded elsewhere, and flew 112 missions.
After the war he studied at the Birmingham College of Art from 1946-1950 and then at the Royal College of Art from 1950-1953 graduating the same year as younger colleagues Gerald Benney and David Mellor. He and Mellor were the first two students to win first class honours in the silver degree course and all of the younger students admired him. Eric Clements was there at the same time and Robert Welch graduated in 1955, all of them being taught by Robert Goodden.
Bellamy started his own one-man workshop in London in a small basement beneath a dry-cleaner's in Cadogan Street making small items, some for the retailer George Tarratt in Leicester. With Ivan Tarratt they formed Bellamy & Tarratt, a production silver company which lasted until 1959. He then did some designs for A E Jones. Bellamy won a Design Centre Award in 1961 for his "Monte Carlo" cutlery, made by George Wolstenholme in Sheffield. Before 1964 he joined the Council of Industrial Design as Industrial Liason Officer for silver and the allied industries, his job being to encourage good designs.
Bellamy enjoyed teaching and became Head of the Sheffield College of Art and then Principal at Canterbury and Maidstone.
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 | Silver Beaker
London 1958
Geoffrey Bellamy
Height: 10cm
Diameter: base: 5cm
Diameter top: 6.25cm
£450 each
Six Available
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Silver Boxed Spoons
London 1962
Geoffrey Bellamy
Length: 7.5cm
£195
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 | Silver Fish Dish
London 1957
Geoffrey Bellamy
7.5cm by 7.5cm
£195
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Silver Napkin Ring
Birmingham 1959
Designed by Geoffrey Bellamy
Facsmile Signature
Makers Mark : A E Jones
Length: 6.5cm
£195
Four Available
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 | Silver Dish
London 1956
Geoffrey Bellamy
Length: 8cm
£195
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Silver Chamberstick
London 1957
Geoffrey Bellamy
Length: 10cm
Height: 6cm
£350
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 | Silver 'Rocker' Dish
London 1963
Geoffrey Bellamy
Sold by George Tarratt
Length: 10cm
Width: 6.5cm
£195
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Silver Bowl
London 1957
Geoffrey Bellamy
Retailed by J W Henn and Sons
Hand Hammered
Length: 12cm
Height: 4.5cm
£350
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