A handsome & good size Goldsmith’s & Silversmith’s silver-plated Beer Tankard C. pre 1950

A handsome & good sized Goldsmith’s & Silversmith’s silver-plated Beer Tankard C.20thC

A handsome & good-sized Goldsmith’s and Silversmith’s Regent Plate silver-plated Beer Tankard.

Circa before 1950
Good Vintage Condition having just a small scratch to the body (see image 2), no wear to the silver plate.

4.75 inches (12.5cm) height X 5 inches (13cm) width X 4 3/8th inches (11.5cm) depth approx.

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THE GOLDSMITHS & SILVERSMITHS CO LTD – London
The firm was established in 1880 by William Gibson (d. 1913) and John Lawrence Langman (1846-1928). The firm was active at 112 Regent Street, London acquiring the premises previously used by John Joseph Mechi. In 1893 the firm absorbed The Goldsmiths’ Alliance Ltd (late A.B. Savory & Sons) and in 1898 became the Goldsmiths & Silversmiths Co Ltd being active as jewellers, dealers in diamonds and precious stones, silversmiths, electroplaters and watch and clock makers.

In 1952 Goldsmiths & Silversmiths Co Ltd was amalgamated with Garrard & Co Ltd.

The firm participated to a number of national and international exhibitions, as Indian and Colonial Exhibition (London, 1886), Paris (1889), Chicago (1893), California (1894), Paris (1900) and Franco-British Exhibition (London, 1908). The Goldsmiths & Silversmiths Co was active with manufactories at Newcastle Place, Clerkenwell; Regent Works, Sheffield and Rue St George, Paris and as retailer of items supplied by various British gold and silver manufacturers (Martin Hall & Co Ltd, W&G Sissons, Wakely & Wheeler, William Comyns, Harrison Brothers & Howson, etc.).