La Maison Couquaux, or House of Couquaux was founded by Francois-Theophile Couquaux at 402, Rue St.-Honore Paris. The firm was active in the 1870s and 1880s. Not much is known about this silversmith and goldsmith, except that he was warmly admired for the quality of his figural works and religious objects in the last decades of the 19th century.

In 1880 William Gibson and John Lawrence Langman acquired premises at 112, Regent Street, London and founded The Goldsmiths & Silversmiths Company. The firm produced a wide range of items from solid silver tableware and cutlery, jewellery and watches to electroplaters, trophies and surgical instruments. In 1898 the expanded and well-known firm became a limited company and added "Ltd" to its name.

Mappin & Webb has been for over two centuries one of the most illustrious British manufacturing and retail silversmith company.

Jonathan Mappin opened his first silver workshop in 1775 in Sheffield, a major centre of the English silver market.