A key part of my role as a valuer for Safeguard at the Birmingham Assay Office, is ‘silver specialist’, which entails the valuation of antique silver, along with trophies and ecclesiastic (church) items.

The Birmingham Assay office is pleased to announce the election of eight new Guardians of the Standard of Wrought Plate. Peter Crump, Kate Canty, Dr Tracy Carlton, Lauren Hartigan-Pritchard, Nicola McGowan, Andy Moss, Gordon Hamme and Gervase Lancaster.

  Birmingham Assay Office announces the appointment of Russell Jeans and Andrew Lee as new Wardens. Birmingham Assay Office is pleased to announce the appointment of new Wardens, Russell Jeans, Founder and CEO of Sefton & Associates, and Andrew Lee, Senior Board Executive, following the retirement of long-standing Wardens, Tim Clay and John Wood. Russell, a Fellow of the Association of Chartered Certified Accountants and a postgraduate of Warwick Business School, has worked his way…