Search results for the tag 'silver'

1950s souvenir jewellery and art with Indigenous motifs

Finding more examples of the silver brooch with Indigenous motifs that she discussed in our May issue, Christine Erratt delved further into their history. In the National Archives of Australia, Christine uncovered the 1954 design registration applications.
Six different designs, of which five were inspired b...

Australian flora and fauna on silver spoons 1971–2021

The late Professor Kenneth Cavill’s article published in Australiana1 identified about 50 spoons of Australian and British manufacture, marking royal
and other occasions, with heraldic motifs, maps of Australia or Tasmania and flora and fauna, made either in factories or in craft workshops. Overlapping almos...

William Frederick Ward: engraver, heraldic designer, manufacturing jeweller, banknote designer, cinema proprietor, handwriting expert

When Yvonne Barber first proposed writing an article about William Frederick Ward, your editor’s response was ‘Who?’ Readers will react the same way, yet W F Ward was involved in the engraving, design and manufacture of silverware for 40 years. He designed the arms of the City of Sydney, won the competiti...

The Tattersall's Club cups: Queensland racing history in gold and silver 1884-1888

Dianne Byrne shares some of the outcomes of her postgraduate research into 19th-century presentation jewellery and metalwork made in Queensland or for Queenslanders, focusing here on a series of racing trophies made in the 1880s for the Tattersall’s Club Cup run at Eagle Farm racecourse. Two of these were mad...

Thomas Wright, Geelong colonial silversmith and jeweller

Thomas Wright (c.1827–1912) may not be a well-known name today, but in early Geelong his shop was a mainstay. As with many other silversmiths and jewellers, little of his work survives, so his name rarely comes up in publications. The recent discovery of a Thomas Wright silver trowel in the Geelong Grammar Sc...

The Captain Cook silver statuette

Lieutenant James Cook RN, commanding officer of HMB Endeavour, the renamed collier Earl of Pembroke, sailed on 26 August 1768 from England on a naval and scientific voyage to observe the Transit of Venus, collect natural history specimens and explore the east coast of New Holland. The 250th anniversary of the v...

A Queensland colonial egg inkstand returns home

Prominent colonists or officials returning “home” were often presented with a memento to thank them for their achievements in Australia. These gifts often took the form of an object that was distinctly Australian in its design or materials. Many works have been forgotten or destroyed, so it is a gratifying ...

Reading a spoon

How do three spoons, two by Sydney silversmith Alexander Dick and a later spoon made in London, come to bear the same crest and initials? Lesley Garrett explores the possibilities.

Making a new mace for the Australian Catholic University

How things are designed and made should interest all those with a passion for the creative arts. One of our members, Christine Erratt, was involved in the process of designing a new mace for the Australian Catholic University because of the important articles she wrote for Australiana, and another member, W.J. ...

An early Australian silver gift - its authenticity and content

Jolyon Warwick James traces the story of an Australian colonial silver spoon with a name engraved on the stem, and finds a link with a banker who lived and died at Bronte House overlooking one of Sydney’s famous beaches.

Book review: Eva Czernis-Ryl, ‘Hendrik Forster Silversmith Designer Maker’

During the second decade of the new millennium, many pioneers of the crafts movement in Australia, which began to flourish in the 1970s, will celebrate four decades of working in studio practices with their chosen materials.

The Champion's Belt of Isaac Reid, heavyweight prize-fighter

The National Gallery of Australia holds a three-piece silver buckle that originally formed the central element of a Champion’s Boxing Belt presented to prize-fighter Isaac Reid in 1847 (plate 1). This remarkable belt was made by Sydney silversmiths J.J. Cohen & Son1 and engraved by John Carmichael. Until rece...

Lady Bowen's Irish harp brooch - a missing piece of Queensland colonial jewellery

The practice of presenting diplomatic gifts to dignitaries goes back to antiquity. As the much-admired wife of the governor of the colonies of Queensland, New Zealand and Victoria, Diamantina, Lady Bowen received some significant pieces of jewellery and metalwork. These gifts were frequently, and often fulsomel...

A.S. Trood, a silver medal and Belle Vue Hall School

John Locksley Kemp, a descendant of Richard Kemp, gave a silver medal, passed down through the Kemp family, to the Powerhouse Museum in 1984. Very little was known about the medal’s history until Karen Eaton came across it by chance while viewing the Museum’s on-line collection database. Also a descendant o...

Book review: JM Houstone, ‘Early Australian Silver: The Houstone Collection'

Two new colonial exhibitions in Adelaide: 'Bounty: 19th-century; South Australian gold and silver; South Australia Illustrated

Pre-1820 silversmiths and allied tradesmen in Australia

Book review: Brilliant. Australian Gold and Silver 1851-1950

Book review: Gold & Silversmithing in Western Australia: A History

Eliza Frances Nicholson's silver mug

John Austin, forger & silversmith

An Australian silver ladle in London

F.J. Mole, Brisbane silversmith

Charles Brownlow, sporting legend and silversmith

Silver marks: Hale or Hooft?

Book review: Brilliant. Australian Gold and Silver 1851-1950

Silver match boxes of Australian make & interest

Charles Allen Brown (1850 - 1908) Australian Silversmith

William Kerr, Colonial Silversmith 1838-1896

W.J. Sanders, Manufacturing Silversmith, Goldsmiths & Art Metal Workers

New publication: Working with Silver. The Story of a Practical Chemist's Adventures

Silver Napkin Rings of Australian Make and Interest

Stories in Silver

Samuel Clayton & the Foundation of the Darling Mills: The Story of an Emancipist Silversmith who influenced the Early Social Fabric of the Colony

Further Notes on Joseph Thomas Sleep, Silversmith: Ballarat

Book review: Winsome Shepherd, Gold and Silversmithing in Nineteenth & Twentieth Century New Zealand

William Proud, Prouds and their Australian Silverware

Edward Bangs (1823-1902): an early Melbourne silversmith

A Successful Enterprise of the Early 20th Century: The Phoenix Manufacturing Company, Silversmiths and Electroplates

An Australian Silversmith's Craft - Aspects of Construction

Recent Museum Acquisitions of Australiana: An Early Sydney Silver Tobacco Box. Acquired by the Art Gallery of South Australia

Recent Museum Acquisitions of Australiana: Two English Silver Cups with Australian Stories. Acquired by the Powerhouse Museum

Book review: Kenneth Cavill, Graham Cocks and Jack Grace, ‘Australian Jewellers, Gold & Silversmiths - makers & Marks’, C.G.C Gold Pty Ltd, 1992

English and the Australian Eastern Colonies' Involvement in Jewellery and Silversmithing in Western Australia

William H. Spencer, Journeyman Silversmith

Book review: Kenneth Cavill, Graham Cocks and Jack Grace, 'Australian Jewellers, Gold and Silversmiths - makers and Marks’, C.G.C Gold Pty Ltd, 1992

Pseudo English Hallmarks on German Silver and an Australian Connection

Book review: Kenneth Cavill, Graham Cocks and Jack Grace, 'Australian Jewellers, Gold and Silversmiths - makers and Marks’, C.G.C Gold Pty Ltd, 1992

Tilbury and Lewis Pty Ltd. Manufacturing Jewellers, Silversmiths and Electronicplaters

Nineteenth Century Australian Silver