Silver Makers

John King was a silversmith working in London during the 18th Century. He was apprenticed in 1750 to Henry Brind and was then passed over to William Shaw in 1751. He was free by 1757 and entered his first mark as a plateworker in 1775 from and address in Little Britain, Smithfield, London. He continued […]

John Langlands was a Newcastle based silversmith part of the Langlands family, who for sixty years were the largest silverplate producers in Newcastle. John Langlands started in partnership with John Goodrick, taking over the business of their master Isaac Cookson when he died in 1754. When Goodrick died in 1757...

John Schofield was a silversmith working in London during the second half of the 18th Century. He appears to have been in partnership with his brother Robert Schofield as the pair entered marks between 1772 and 1776. He entered a mark in partnership with Robert Jones in 1776 as a plateworker based in Bartholomew...

John Walton was a silversmith in Newcastle who went on to become one of the largest silver plate and jewellery manufacturers in the city. He started out with registering his mark in 1811 and went into partnership with John Robertson Jnr. They dissolved the partnership in 1820 and John Walton went on to trade...

Joseph Rodgers is a leading name in Sheffield cutlery. The company was established in 1724 by John Rodgers who licensed their eventually world famous star and Maltese cross mark from the Cutlers’ Company. He was joined by his two sons Maurice and Joseph in 1730. They formally registered the star and Maltese cross...

Josiah Williams & Co – based in Bristol, they were the largest manufacturing silversmiths outside the main cities of London, Sheffield and Birmingham. Robert Williams entered their first mark in 1832 at the Exeter Assay Office. In 1846 he was joined by his two sons Josiah and James trading as Robert Williams &...

Kaymet was established in 1947 making trolleys and trays for the catering business. Sydney Schreiber established a small metalworking business which during the Second World War produced boxes for radar equipment. After the war he needed to find another use for his machinery and in 1947 changed the company name to...

Keith & Co. were a London based silversmiths located in City Road, London. Founded in 1824 by John Keith, the firm operated for over a hundred years with an interruption between 1868 and 1874 when his son (John James) and his employees worked at Cox & Sons. They made silverware for the Ecclesiological Society from...

Lambert & Rawlings were silversmiths based in London who became ‘Silversmiths to Their Majesties and Her Royal Highness The Duchess of Kent’. The business was started by Francis Lambert in 1803 and became an important retailer of both reproduction and original antique silver plate as well as a manufacturer of...

Levi & Salaman were Birmingham based silversmiths founded in 1870 by Phineas Harris Levi and Joseph Wolff Salaman. They manufactured gilt costume jewellery and then progressed into more expensive silver jewellery and transferred to larger premises in 1872. In 1878 they purchased Potosi Silver Co, a small...