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A sparkling start to a Monday morning at Assay Office Birmingham! Another public Silver Visit will take place this afternoon.  The next available dates to book a place on a Public Silver Visit are: Thursday 21st August, Thursday 23rd October and Thursday 4th December.  Places are £15.00 each.  This includes a talk on the history of the Office and the jewellery quarter, a tour of the private silver collection and library, as well as a chance to visit the gift shop.  Refreshments…

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Archibald Knox: Beauty and Modernity, a Designer Ahead of His Time.  Exhibition at Olympia The accompanying talk written and delivered by the exhibition organiser, curator and Liberty expert Anthony Bernbaum gave a fascinating insight into this gifted and long overlooked pioneer of British Art Nouveau design. Illustrated by over 100 Liberty items (all of which would have originated in the Birmingham firm W.H. Haseler in the first decade of the twentieth century- all bar two of the silver i…

The International if not global reach of Assay Office Birmingham continues apace.  During a recent visit to Moscow, Russia on the occasion of the CIBJO International Congress 19-21 May - hosted by the Russian Jewellers' Guild, Chief Executive & Assay Master Stella Layton was presented with an exquisite volume of  "THE JEWELRY HOUSE OF SAZIKOVS". The album is well illustrated and details the historical research of the largest Russian jewellery firm of the 19th century whose work wo…