A rare and collectable Arts and Crafts movement cast silver caddy spoon, with a spot hammered bowl and leaf terminal. In superb condition, with good hallmarks.
Maker: Bernard Instone* Birmingham 1928.
Dimensions: 69 x 54mm. 24g
* The celebrated artist Bernard Instone was born in 1891 in Birmingham. He developed an interest in jewellery from his brother Lewis at the age of 7. When he was 12 he went to the Vittoria Street School, Birmingham, on a scholarship, where he learnt silversmithing and jewellery making. Bernard and his brother went to Berlin to study following an invitation by the German Court goldsmith Emil Lettre, but tragically Lewis died there in an accident. Bernard then went to work with John Paul Cooper in his Westerham studio, until he was called up for the First World War. On his return in 1919 he set up the Langstone silver works with his brother Reginald in Digbeth, Birmingham. Bernard was made a Freeman of the Goldsmith''s Company in 1936, and a Liveryman in 1938. He was now was selling to a broad range of clients including Sibyl Dunlop who he visited every Friday at her shop in Kensington, supplying her with made up designs already marked up with the SD mark, ready for the retail market. In the 1940''s Liberty became a customer after 25 years of trying to sell to them, and at around this time he opened a shop in Salcombe, Devon, which sold the cheaper range of his jewellery as well as paintings. In 1953 Bernard moved the business to Solihull where his sons John and Paul gradually took over until he retired in 1963, spending the rest of his life in the Cotswolds, with his wife Barbara who he had married in 1922. He died in 1987.
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Antique Number: SA979167
Dateline of this antique is 1920
Height is 6.9cm (2.7inches)Width is 5.4cm (2.1inches)Depth is 0.2cm (0.1inches)
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