| Designer British Silver from studios established 1930 - 1985 by Derek Styles and John Andrew
'Designer British Silver from studios established 1930 to 1985' is a beautifully produced 560 page slip case edition weighing over 4 kilos and retails at £75. This is a major work and should remain the definitive book on the period for some time to come. It has taken over 20 years of research and 7 years writing.
It features: Introduction by Gordon Hamme; an overview of this important period; biographical chapters on the 50 major silversmiths; brief information of over 200 others; where pieces can be seen; a glossary and is fully indexed with full colour illustrations.
Book can be viewed here: https://issuu.com/accpublishinggroup/docs/whole_book_pdf
Written by my father Derek Styles - please ask if you would like a signed edition
THIS IS ONLY AVAILABLE FOR PURCAHSE WITHIN THE UK DUE TO ITS WEIGHT
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| Birmingham 1959
Length: 19 cm
Height: 8 cm
Weight: 194 gms
Design number 1347 embossed to base
A very good late 1950's design
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| London 1961
Fully Hallmarked Silver
Sterling (925)
15 cm
Albert George Brooker registered his mark in 1945 (AGB in a rectangle - not to be confused with that of Gerald Benney's AGB in 3 circles) - He mainly produced ecclesiastical work and taught at the Central School of Arts and Crafts. A very fine craftsman. |
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| London 1961
Fully Hallmarked Silver
Sterling (925)
Height: 10 cm
Albert George Brooker registered his mark in 1945 (AGB in a rectangle - not to be confused with that of Gerald Benney's AGB in 3 circles) - He mainly produced ecclesiastical work and taught at the Central School of Arts and Crafts. A very fine craftsman
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| London 1960
Fully Hallmarked Silver
Sterling (925)
Length: 17 cm
Bideford School of Arts & Crafts sponsor's mark - Made by Alfred Grove who was involved with the School
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| London 1969
Fully Hallmarked Silver
Sterling (925)
10 cm
Grove was involved with the Bideford School of Arts & Crafts where Jane Short was taught
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| London 1968
Fully Hallmarked Silver
Sterling (9250
Length: 14 cm
Grove was involved with the Bideford School of Arts & Crafts where Jane Short was taught
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| London 1999
Fully Hallmarked Silver
Sterling (925)
Length: 8.6 cm
Width: 4.5 cm
Similar TEA Caddy Spoon also available
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| London 1999
Fully Hallmarked Silver
Sterling (925)
Length: 8.3 cm
Width: 4.1 cm
Similar COFFEE Caddy Spoon also available
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| London 1965
Fully Hallmarked Silver
Sterling (925)
Set of six with fine geometric engraved design - Stamped 'DIADEM' to base
Height: 10 cm
Blunt & Wray were Ecclesiastical metalwork suppliers in Clerkenwell Road with 15 employees and 'DIADEM' was their trade name for domestic silverware. Anthony Elson purchased the Company in 1966
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| London 1982
Fully Hallmarked Silver
Sterling (925)
Cast label on Bark textured background
Brian Cain was born in 1931 and served his apprenticeship with Wakely and Wheeler. He studied on day release at the Central School of Arts and Crafts with contemporaries John Bartholomew and Lew Marlow. Payne and Son of Oxford and George Tarratt in Leicester retailed some of the pieces he designed for Wakely and Wheeler in the late 1950's. Cain later moved to C J Vander where he was the company's design manager.
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| London 1982
Fully Hallmarked Silver
Sterling (925)
Cast label with Bark textured background
Brian Cain was born in 1931 and served his apprenticeship with Wakely and Wheeler. He studied on day release at the Central School of Arts and Crafts with contemporaries John Bartholomew and Lew Marlow. Payne and Son of Oxford and George Tarratt in Leicester retailed some of the pieces he designed for Wakely and Wheeler in the late 1950's. Cain later moved to C J Vander where he was the company's design manager
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| London 1947
Fully Hallmarked Silver
Sterling (925)
Diameter: 10 cm
Height: 4.5 cm
Gerald Benney studied at the Brighton College of Art from 1946-48 under DUNSTAN PRUDEN (Gerald's father Sallis Benney was Principal)
ANTHONY ELSON studied under Pruden there in 1955 and he told me: '
'The first thing that Pruden asked his full time students to make was a small bowl. This involved raising, planishing and shaping.'
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| London 1947
Fully Hallmarked Silver
Sterling (925)
Width: 13 cm
Height: 8 cm
Gerald Benney studied at the Brighton College of Art from 1946-48 under DUNSTAN PRUDEN (Gerald's father Sallis Benney was Principal) |
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| London 1970
Fully Hallmarked Silver
Sterling (925)
Length: 10.5 cm
A design from the time Dunstan Pruden was head of the Brighton School of Arts & Crafts in the 1950's
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| Edinburgh 1977
Queen's Head Jubilee Hallmark
Fully Hallmarked Silver
Sterling (925)
Length: 7.5 cm
Cecil Frederick Colyer studied at Cambridge and spent time in Nigeria in the Colonial Service. Returning to England he ran a boys club at Uppingham School and during the war was a pilot instructor for the RAF.In 1952 was appointed as Head of Metal and Woodwork at Bryanston School. He was a Liveryman of the Worshipful Company of Turners and registered his London mark in 1965 then later in Edinburgh. One of his students, Simon Beer, called him '...an inspired teacher'. He died in 1994.
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| Sheffield 1996
Fully Hallmarked Silver
Sterling (925)
Diameter: 18 cm
Height: 7 cm
Designed and hand made by Charles Hall - Commissioned by Sir Colin Southgate to mark the demerger of Thorn from the EMI group.
Charles Hall studied at Hornsey College of Art and the RCA before establishing his studio and workshop in Cornwall in 1972. A founding Contemporary British Silvermiths), he has undertaken many important commissions.
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| London 1978
Fully Hallmarked Silver
Sterling (925)
Length:21.5 cm
Weight: 133 gm
Hinged Stamp Case in handle
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| London
Fully hallmarked silver cased lead pencil
Sterling (925)
Length: 16 cm
Illustrated in my book 'British Designer Silversmiths'
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| London 1976
Fully Hallmarked Silve
Sterling (925)
Length: 20.5 cm
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| London 1968
Fully Hallmarked Silver
Sterling (925)
Height: 11.5 cm
Stippled Band and gilt lined
3 available
Desmond Clen-Murphy (1924-2010). He studied with Gerald Benney at Brighton School of Arts and Crafts where they were taught silversmithing by Dunstan Pruden. He established a workshop in Brighton in 1952 and taught at Worthing. In the 1950's gave Benney a hand and also worked with Louis Osman. The majority of his work was made as commissions from the Goldsmiths' Company, Universities, Churches and the Government. His work rarely turns up apart from the Chichester Cathedral goblet he designed for Aurum in 1976 - some of his work can be seen in the Treasury there.
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| Birmingham 1960
Fully Hallmarked Silver
Sterling (925)
Length: 10.5 cm
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| London 1993
Fully Hallmarked Silver
Britannia Standard (958)
Length: 18.8 cm
A faithful copy of a 14th Century Diamond Point spoon - Commissioned to commemorate the 700th Anniversary - the Company was incorporated by Royal Charter granted by Richard II on 13 January 1394
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| London 1933
Fully Hallmarked Silver
Sterling (925)
Length: 7 cm
Engraved with a stylised Lily of the Valley in the form of the letter 'C'
Francis Adams was born in Hungary and learnt his craft in wrought iron. He worked in London for Starkie Gardner & Co, the wrought iron specialists that also worked in bronze, lead, silver and gold. He taught at the Central School of Arts and Crafts from 1906-5 where Leslie Durbin was amongst his pupils. In 1920 he opened his own workshop
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| London 1959
Fully Hallmarked Silver
Sterling (925)
Length: 21 cm
Weight: 123 gm
Probably an Alex Styles design while he was Head Designer there
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| Birmingham 1964
Garrard and Co Ltd
Fully Hallmarked Silver
Sterling (925)
Height: 17 cm
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| London 1951
Fully Hallmarked Silver
Sterling (925)
Length: 17.6 cm
Gwendoline Cross was born in Bristol in 1900 and attended Bristol Art School. She married Australian artist Fred Whicker in 1931 and lived in Clifton, Bristol and both of them exhibited at the Royal West of England Academy annual exhibitions. They moved to Wood Lane, Falmouth and she registered her hallmark in London in 1948. She made cutlery, jewellery boxes with hand beaten silver decorated with either enamel or semi-precious stones and jewellery. They moved from the New Bristol Arts Club to the St. Ives Society of Artists, with Gwen as secretary and Fred treasurer and exhibited there until their deaths. She produced etchings, paintings, drawings, sculpture, jewellery and silverwork. Much of her silver work has not been traced as it was sent to Fred's sister in Canada on her death. A retrospective exhibition of their work was held at the Falmouth Art Gallery in 1994 when 14 pieces of silverwork were loaned from private collections.
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| London 1957
Fully Hallmarked Silver
Sterling (925)
Height: 8 cm
A striking Post War design
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| London 1977
Silver Jubilee Hallmark
Fully Hallmarked Silver
Sterling (925)
Diameter: 4.5 cm
Width: 3.25 cm
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| London 1998
Fully Hallmarked Silver
Sterling (925)
Dartington Crystal
Height: 31 cm
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| London 1967
Fully Hallmarked Silver
Britannia Standard (958)
Diameter: 6 cm
Commissioned by the Wine Label Circle - with removable silver plaque for changing names
John Alistair Donald was born in 1928 and studied jewellery at the Royal College of Art. He is considered to be one of the leading Post War British Jewellers and also produced some silver items |
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| London 1967
Fully Hallmarked Silver
Britannia Standard (958)
Diameter: 6 cm
Commissioned by the Wine Label Circle - with removable silver plaque for changing names
John Alistair Donald was born in 1928 and studied jewellery at the Royal College of Art. He is considered to be one of the leading Post War British Jewellers and also produced some silver items
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| London 1969
Fully Hallmarked Silver
Sterling (925)
Height: 16.5 cm
Weight: 44 oz
Hand raised
John Foster Miller entered his mark in 1969
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| London 1969
Fully Hallmarked Silver
Sterling (925)
Silver Workshop Ltd mark - Designed by Keith Redfern
Diameter base: 7.5 cm
Height: 4 cm
Silver gilt on marble base
Keith Redfern was born in Sheffield in 1935 and studied at the College of Art there before going to the Royal College of Art. He worked for David Mellor and Elkington before becoming a partner in Silver Workshop in the early 1960's with two RCA contemporaries Ronald Stevens and Tony Laws. When they stopped trading in 1972 he became Head of 3D Design at Hornsey College of Art and established Keith Redfern Designs
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| Edinburgh 1976
Fully Hallmarked Silver
Sterling (925)
Length: 16 cm
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| London 1959
Maker: Wakely & Wheeler
Designed by KENNETH LESSONS
Fully Hallmarked Silver
Sterling (925)
Height: 8 cm
Finely hand engraved with a Teddy Bear playing a drum
Kenneth W Lessons - born 1933 studied at Sheffield College of Art before attending the Royal College of Art.
Opened own studio in 1957 and immediately received important commissions, including a mace to be presented by the Queen Mother
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| London 1977
Fully Hallmarked Silver
Sterling (925)
Length: 12 cm
Lindsey Middleton studied at High Wycombe College of Art & Technology before proceeding to the Royal College of Art. The Thames and Hudson Manual of Silversmithing by Frances Loyen published in 1980 features several illustrations of her work. In 1979 she was teaching at Nene College of Art in Northampton
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| London 1969
Fully Hallmarked Silver
Sterling (925)
Length: 13 cm
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| Edinburgh 1989
Fully Hallmarked Silver
Sterling (925)
Length: 7 cm
The Isle of Mull silver Co. was established in Tobermory in 1975 by Philip Campbell - In original box with 2 leaflets
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| London 1957
Fully Hallmarked Silver
Sterling (925)
Height: 8.5 cm
Fine 1950's design - Nayler Brothers were the principle manufacturers for Garrard, the Crown Jewellers
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| London 1997
Fully Hallmarked Silver
Sterling (925)
Width: 4.5 cm
Two available - £69 each
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| London 1976
Fully Hallmarked Silver
Sterling (925)
Height: 4 cm
Width: 5.5 cm
Oliver Bailey was born in 1945, self taught except for a course with silversmith Michael Murray at Oxford Polytechnic. Often made spoons and boxes, some of the latter set with agate or cowrie shell and worked in Banbury
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| London 1987
Fully Hallmarked Silver
Sterling (925)
Height: 20 cm
Diameter top: 8 cm
Very finely engraved with a scene of Rochester Castle 1898 - Stem applied with 'Invicta' the emblem of Kent
Carl Padgham and Andy Putland met each other at Medway College of Design in 1980
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| London 1988
Fully Hallmarked Silver
Sterling (925)
Length: 19.5 cm
Peter trained at Brighton College of Art and the Central School before joining Nayler Brothers where he worked on restoration. He also taught metalwork. He took early retirement, did a refresher course and set up his own workshop. He exhibited at 'Silver and Tea - a perfect blend' at Goldsmiths Hall in 1998
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| London 1989
Fully Hallmarked Silver
Sterling (925)
Height: 6.5 cm
Two available
Peter Nicholas was a Company set up by Peter Lunn and Nicholas Plummer.
Peter Lunn is a craftsman specialising in spinning, carving and 3 D design. He worked for Stuart Devlin from 1973 to 1983 before setting up Peter Nicholas and Co Ltd which continued until 1991. He now works for himself, mainly to commission and has been involved in education |
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| London 1983
Fully Hallmarked Silver
Sterling (925)
Diameter: 13.5 cm
Height 5.5 cm
ANGELA PRUDEN (born 1937) was DUNSTAN PRUDEN's daughter and initially taught by him before studying at Brighton College of Art and also had an interest in sculpture. She worked for her father before going to live at Piggotts, Eric Gill's alternative community near Hugh Wycombe. Here she met Phillip Lowery (born 1937) in 1960 and married a year later. He became interested in silver and worked for George Grant for 2 years before they both moved to Gloucestershire and worked together producing domestic and ecclesiastical silver, always hand raised. Phillip had a serious motor accident in 1985 and stopped working as a silversmith
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| Edinburgh 1988
Fully Hallmarked Silver
Sterling (925)
Length: 7 cm
The Isle of Mull Silver Co. was established in Tobermory in 1975 by Philip Campbell |
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| London 1982
Fully Hallmarked Silver
Sterling (925)
Diameter: 5 cm
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| Sheffield 1972
Fully Hallmarked Silver
Sterling (925)
Length: 13 cm
Ralph Weston traded as Kells Gold & Silversmiths from Grape Lane, Whitby, Yorkshire
Weston's original advertising leaflet for these spoons said: BLUE JOHN - Derbyshire's own gemstones - Blue John is one of the world's rarest minerals found only at Castleton in Derbyshire. 14 veins are known although few of these are mined today. This beautiful gemstone is reputed to have been used as far back as Roman times for making vases and ornaments, examples of which can be seen in the geological museum, London
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| London 1959
Fully Hallmarked Silver
Sterling (925)
Height: 13 cm
Diameter: 8 cm
A cigarette canister commissioned for the 5th Royal Inniskilling Dragoon Guards - Illustrated on page 256 in my book 'Designer British Silversmiths'
Both Grant Macdonald and Christopher Lawrence rate Hill (1914-75) very highly as a teacher. He taught at the Central School and later at Sir John Cass as well as designing for C J Vander. After the Coronation in 1953 Prince Phillip asked Hill to design a communion set to be given to the Archbishop of Canterbury as a 'Thank you' present. Work bearing his own maker's mark rarely turn up
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