Today at Goldsmiths’ Hall, members of the Goldsmiths’ Company have been helping to protect consumers by ensuring coins produced by the Royal Mint are up to standard in what’s known as the Trial of the Pyx, one of the oldest judicial processes in Britain.
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This year the Goldsmiths' Company has lent support to The Jewellery Cut Live bursary, which gives the winning jeweller a host of prizes to help their career. Find out who the winner is.
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Are you a maker? As part of our aim to support jewellers and silversmiths, help us investigate the market for craft in partnership with the Crafts Council.
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Members of the Goldsmiths' Company are involved in work of national significance, from silversmithing to academia - find out which members have been named in the New Year's Honours list 2020.
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Local jewellers are more influential than celebrities and the Royal family when it comes to buying jewellery, according to early results from the Jewellery 'Census’, a survey of 2,500 consumers sponsored by the Goldsmiths' Company.
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Dr Dora Thornton, Curator of the Goldsmiths' Company Collection introduces the work of six makers acquired from this year's Goldsmiths' Fair.
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Along with our flagship publication, Goldmiths' Review, this year the Goldsmiths' Company has also released a new Company and Charity infographic.
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Following on from a record year, don't forget to save the dates for Goldsmiths' Fair 2020.
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The Royal Mint has launched the first ever payment card made from solid gold, hallmarked by the London Assay Office.
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The UK’s premier showcase for contemporary jewellery and silver will be opening soon. Week 1: 24-29 September / Week 2: 1-6 October.
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How the Goldsmiths' Company Charity is building new relationships that help empower its charity partners
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Why we need to celebrate the community programmes that are shaping and educating young people to a life-changing extent.
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Out of 40 original entrants, eight finalists have been selected from regional heats in London and Greater Manchester, to compete in the finals at Goldsmiths’ Hall on the 25th June 2019. The awards celebrate the positive impact schools and their students have had in their local communities through charitable and voluntary initiatives. The Goldsmiths' Company Community Engagement Awards was an initiative set up by former Prime Warden Judith Cobham-Lowe OBE.
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Coin specialist James Morton talks about the limited edition set of gold commemorative Queen Elizabeth II Coronation coins from 1953, which are part of The Goldsmiths’ Company’s Collection.
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The Goldsmiths’ Company is pleased to announce that Dr Timothy Schroder has been elected Prime Warden. Dr Schroder, who previously served in the role during 2015-16, is the first Prime Warden to be appointed for a second term since 1951, when Walter Godfrey Allen served two consecutive years.
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The Goldsmiths’ Company Charity awarded the University of Cambridge with £436,000, for the Goldsmiths’ Company programme in precious metals (used for jewellery and silverware) research builds on the University’s strengths in the study of materials. The award includes funding for three new PhD studentships at Cambridge.
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The Goldsmiths’ Company Charity is pleased to partner with The Lord Mayor’s Appeal, to support Mental Health Awareness Week. The annual initiative set up by the Mental Health Foundation and to raise awareness of mental health and to inspire action to promote good mental health for all.
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Goldsmiths’ Fair and The Goldsmiths’ Centre will be hosting a series of events during London Craft Week (8 May – 12 May).
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17 schools competed in the regional finals of the first-ever Goldsmiths’ Company Community Engagement Awards this week, each vying for a place at the national finals in June.
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The Goldsmiths Company is pleased to announce that Dr Frances Parton has been appointed as Deputy Curator in the Collections Team and will be joining the Company on 11 March 2019.
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The presentation of the annual Awards of the Goldsmiths’ Craft & Design Awards took place at the prestigious Goldsmiths’ Hall in London on Monday 25th February 2019.
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Past Prime Warden of the Goldsmiths’ Company, Bruno Schroder, has passed away aged 86.
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Over 10,600 Royal Mint coins went on 'trial' in London on Tuesday 29 January in one of Britain's oldest judicial processes – the Trial of the Pyx.
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The 2019 Trial of the Pyx will take place at Goldsmiths' Hall on 29 January.
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Distinguished jeweller, ceramicist, sculptor and Liveryman of the Goldsmiths' Company, Wendy Ramshaw CBE RDI passed away on Sunday 9th December after a long illness.
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References to assaying have been absorbed into our language, becoming subject to semantic change and acquiring wider cultural significance.
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Three young Goldsmiths’ Company apprentices have excelled in the Fine Jewellery Making category at The Skills Show.
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Some of the UK's leading silversmiths have once again produced Christmas decorations in time to decorate your tree!
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The Goldsmiths’ Company’s touring exhibition will be on display at Osterley Park from 5 November. Discover more about the Company's patronage of silver and the continuity of techniques.
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As we approach the centenary anniversary of Armistice Day, we have looked back through the Company minutes from the period of the First World War.
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The Lord Mayor of London and the Lady Mayoress called at Goldsmiths’ Hall this morning as part of their annual tour of Livery Halls
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A gift from the Goldsmiths’ Company Charity to support three new PhD studentships at Cambridge will advance research in precious metals and help develop new technical expertise.
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The largest display of British contemporary silver ever mounted in the USA, A Sterling Renaissance: British Silver Design 1957–2018 presents more than 100 items by thirty-five designer-silversmiths aged from their early 20s to their mid-80s.
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The distinguished jeweller and Liveryman of the Goldsmiths' Company, Paul Podolsky, has passed away aged 95.
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The existing Goldsmiths’ Hall was designed by Philip Hardwick and officially opened in 1835; it is the third Goldsmiths’ Hall on the site. Research and analysis informed proposals that were subsequently executed over two summer recesses by a team of skilled craftsmen and decorators.
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Jacobs the Jewellers and the Bishopsland Educational Trust, together with sponsors the Goldsmiths’ Centre and HS Walsh, announced the winners of the fourth year of the annual Young Designer Competition.
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Now in its 36th year, Goldsmiths’ Fair has built a solid reputation as the foremost destination for precious metal fine jewellery and contemporary silver.
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Michael Prideaux has been elected as Prime Warden of the Goldsmiths' Company for 2018-19
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The Goldsmiths’ Company will maintain the gilding on the Cutty Sark’s ‘Gingerbread’.
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A recording of the lecture given by Dr. Tristram Hunt, Director of the V&A, at Goldsmiths' Hall.
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On Tuesday 24 April, Baroness Rona Fairhead, Minister for Trade and Export Promotion attended the Private View for Grant Macdonald International Silversmith and officially opened the exhibition at Goldsmiths’ Hall.
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The Goldsmiths' Company Charity is proud to support London Youth - a growing, thriving network of 330 youth organisations serving young people across London.
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A recording of a talk held at Goldsmiths' Hall on the topic of Nelson’s Chelengk, one of the most iconic jewels in British history.
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The presentation of the annual Awards of the Goldsmiths Craft & Design Awards took place at Goldsmiths’ Hall in London on Monday 26th February 2018.
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