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==Notable and historical silversmiths== {{main|:Category:Silversmiths}} ;Companies {{div col |colwidth=22em}} * [[Garrard & Co]] * [[Hersey & Son]]{{Efn|Garrad & Co. was founded by George Wickes in London in 1722 and is still operating.}} * [[Phipps & Robinson]] * [[Reid & Sons]]{{Efn|Reid & Sons was founded in 1788 in Newcastle and is still operating.}} {{div col end}} ;People {{div col |colwidth=22em}} * [[Acragas (silversmith)|Acragas]] * [[Kurt Aepli]] *[[José Velázquez de Medrano]], the most significant silversmith of his time during the [[Spanish Golden Age]] *[[Zahroun Amara]], [[Mandaeans|Mandaean]] [[niello]] silversmith. People that are known to have owned his silver nielloware include [[Stanley Maude]], [[Winston Churchill]], the [[House of Khalifa|Bahraini royal family]], [[Farouk of Egypt|Egyptian King Farouk]], the Iraqi royal family (including kings [[Faisal I of Iraq and Syria|Faisal I]] and [[Ghazi of Iraq|Ghazi]]), and the [[British royal family]] including the [[Prince of Wales]] who became [[Edward VIII]].<ref>{{cite web|last=Morgan|first=Major H. Sandford|title=Secrets in Silver – An Ancient Handicraft|url=https://trove.nla.gov.au/newspaper/article/16808461|date=17 October 1931|website=The Sydney Morning Herald|access-date=9 December 2021}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|title=Portrait of the Amara Silversmith's leader, Zahrun.|url=https://www.awm.gov.au/collection/C2458|website=Australian War Memorial|access-date=9 December 2021}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|title=Advance of the Crusaders into Mesopotamia {{!}} Note: name misspelled as 'Zahroam of Amara'|url=https://www.iwm.org.uk/collections/item/object/1060022615|website=Imperial War Museum|access-date=9 December 2021}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|author=هيام الخياط|title=زهرون عمارة صائغ الملوك السلاطين|date=19 January 2016|url=https://www.mandaeanunion.org/ar/mandaean-society/mandaean-figures/item/1761-%D8%B2%D9%87%D8%B1%D9%88%D9%86-%D8%B9%D9%85%D8%A7%D8%B1%D8%A9-%D8%B5%D8%A7%D8%A6%D8%BA-%D8%A7%D9%84%D9%85%D9%84%D9%88%D9%83-%D9%88%D8%A7%D9%84%D8%B3%D9%84%D8%A7%D8%B7%D9%8A%D9%86-%D9%87%D9%8A%D8%A7%D9%85-%D8%A7%D9%84%D8%AE%D9%8A%D8%A7%D8%B7-mandaean|website=Mandaean Associations Union|access-date=27 January 2022}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|title=زهرون عمارة .. عمل "ارگيلة " من الفضة للسلطان عبدالحميد|url=https://www.algardenia.com/qosesmenaldakera/34239-2018-02-20-11-39-58.html|date=20 February 2018|website=algardenia.com|access-date=27 January 2022}}</ref> * [[Hester Bateman]] * [[Peter Bentzon (silversmith)|Peter Bentzon]], the only early American silversmith of African ancestry whose silver has been identified. * [[Jocelyn Burton]] * [[Benvenuto Cellini]] * Stephen Emery, early American silversmith * [[Thomas Germain]] * [[François-Thomas Germain]] * [[Karl Gustav Hansen]], Danish pioneer of Scandinavian silversmith design * [[John Hull (merchant)|John Hull]], [[Treasurer]] of the [[Massachusetts Bay Colony]] * [[Isaac Hutton]] * [[Georg Jensen]] * [[Sampson Mordan]] * [[Jean-Valentin Morel]], French jeweler and craftsman * [[Henry Petzal]] * [[Paul Revere]], American silversmith, manufacturer, and patriot * [[Joseph Richardson Sr.]] and [[Joseph Richardson Jr.]], American silversmiths based in Philadelphia * [[Atsidi Sani]] (Old Smith in English), the first known Navajo silversmith * [[Alfredo Sciarrotta]] * [[Sequoyah]], Cherokee silversmith, inventor of the Cherokee syllabary * [[Alice Sheene]] * [[Shepherd and Boyd|Robert Shepherd and William Boyd]] * [[Robert Welch (designer)|Robert Welch]] * [[Edward Winslow (silversmith)|Edward Winlsow]], early American silversmith {{div col end}}
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