Feng Xiang was a manufacturing and retail silversmith of Chinese origin, operating in the 19-20th centuries. The company produced export silverware of finest quality, that was in high demand all over the world.

Joseph Etienne Blerzy was a prominent goldsmith of French origin working in Paris in XVIII-XIX centuries. He specialized in ornate snuff boxes made from gold and elaborate enamels. The master was mostly active before 1806 and highly prolific: he is reported to have made approximately 40 boxes, all but one dating to the French Revolution.

Hung Chong & Co was a prominent Chinese silversmith and retailer, based in Shanghai and operating between 1830 and 1925. The maker is renowned and celebrated for its ultimately elaborated designs and unusual shapes of the pieces. His retail business didn’t specialize only in high quality silver tableware, they also dealt in blackwood furniture of unsurpassed quality and elegant design, as well as exquisite embroideries and splendid silk.

Jean-François Bautte (1772-1837) and Gabriel Moynier were two prominent goldsmiths of Swiss origin, who worked in partnership, as well as on their own, and crafted incredible objects of vertu, watches and jewellery.

Alexander Macrae was a British silversmith active in the 2nd part of the XIX century, he worked in partnership with other important artisans, as well as on his own, producing a plethora of fine highly decorative items mainly for the British market.

The company began operating as Roberts, Cadman & Co. in 1784, when Samuel Roberts Sr., being the distinguished silversmith himself, decided to build new works for his son at Nº9, Eyre Street in Sheffield. Samuel Roberts Jr. and his partner George Cadman, who had been the apprentice of Roberts Sr., started the production of silver tableware, cutlery and Old Sheffield plate pieces of excellent quality.

The founder of brand name, Nathaniel Mills, the elder registered the maker's mark at the Birmingham Assay Office in 1803 while being a partner in "Mills and Langston, Jewellers Northwood".

One of the most iconic jewellery brands, Tiffany & Co's history begins from a small store that was opened on Broadway, New York in 1837. Two school friends Charles Lewis Tiffany and John B. Young started to sell stationery, fancy souvenirs, china and haberdashery. In 1841 the company got a new partner, J.L. Ellis, who suggested selling silverware, jewellery and clocks. The firm changed its name to Tiffany, Young and Ellis.

"Jeweller of Kings, King of Jewellers"- these famous words belong to King Edward VII, when he expressed his attitude to Cartier, the extraordinary French jewellery and watches manufacturer.

Miyamoto Shoko was one of the most prolific Japanese silversmiths and retailers at the turn of the 20th century. In 1880, the founder of the firm Masaru Miyamoto started his business in Tokyo as the salesman of silver cigarette cases and tobacco to foreigners.

Thanks to its many applications, in art, in our everyday life and ultimately in technology, the demand for silver will maintain its role as a precious metal and increase its value over time.

Widely considered one of the best Norwegian goldsmiths and silversmiths, David Andersen was apprenticed to the jeweller Jacob Tostrup in Christiania (now Oslo). During his apprenticeship he traveled to Berlin, Paris and London, where he exported the unique technique of the Norwegian filigree. In 1876 he was back in Christiania, where he founded his own company introducing his own mark, ‘David Andersen’.

William Cripps was a prominent and prolific manufacturing and retail silversmith based in London.

After being apprenticed to the popular goldsmith and banker William Daume, he was set free in 1738 and five years later he submitted his first mark as a largeworker in Compton Street, Soho.

Sampson Mordan was a British silversmith and inventor, specialised in pens and novelties.

He was apprenticed to the locksmith Joseph Bramah.

James Charles Edington was an important English silversmith, producing silver in Victorian and Georgian style.

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.

Jonathan Hayne was a prolific English silversmith of the 19th century.

He was born in Clerkenwell, London, son of a surgeon. He apprenticed as a silversmith and started is career in 1810, entering his mark in partnership with Thomas Wallis, at 16 Red Lion Street in Clerkenwell. Six years later Wallis and Hayne dissolved their partnership and in 1821 Jonathan entered his own first mark.

The company is considered the main producer of Hanau silver. During the 19th Century Hanau became famous for its silversmith workshops producing excellent copies of antique silver in historical styles.

Johann Daniel Schleissner, son of a goldsmith in Augsburg, moved to Hanau in 1816 and the following year he opened his own company. He produced items in the Augsburg style and sold them internationally, especially in Russia, France and Near East.

John Edward Terrey was an important English silversmith producing mainly tableware and presentation pieces in Georgian and Victorian style. Apart from making very fine new pieces, he also used to recuperate antique silver by altering and rechasing it.

Neresheimer & Sohne is undoubtedly the most famous of the Hanau silversmiths working at the end of the 19th century.

At the end of the 19th century in fact, the city of Hanau, not far from Frankfurt in Germany, became famous for its silver industry tradition: Hanau manufacturers specialised in fine copies from the antique, in the most popular historical styles, generally marked with pseudo-hallmarks in the manner they were trying to imitate.