3-086-379 - The Print Collector/Heritage Images

The Goldsmiths' and Silversmiths' Company's premises, 112, Regent Street, London, 1898. 'The success of its operations was instantaneous...the company are the possessors of the best-arranged and most fully equipped showrooms in London...Equipped with such accommodation and availing itself of the best art-workers, the company has been able to keep in the very front of the market...the company is famous for its collection of plate, and its skill in turning out race cups and trophies of every conceivable kind. There is scarcely a mess in the kingdom that does not possess some of the company's handiwork - centrepieces, statuettes, and trophies of many kinds, all designed with rare cunning, and going down to all time as samples of its workmanship. How many a mayoral chain has been made at No. 112; how many a gold or silver casket, reposing in our royal palaces, has come from there; while Masonic trowels without number have been manufactured by the company...It has now been decided to convert the business into a limited company...The new organisation...will undoubtedly lead to increased business and revenue. For that reason the shares will be eagerly taken up'. From "Illustrated London News", 1898.