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Unusual Armada Dish

24 January 2011

To mark his retirement after 12-years as Chairman of the Joint Assay Offices Committee. Mr Richard Vanderpump was recently presented with a unique Armada Dish. Hallmarked “London Assay Office” for the year 2010 as well

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A Gem of a Paperclip

31 May 2010

For over one hundred years the paperclip has been a ubiquitous part of our lives, used to gather documents together or unfolded to poke into computer drives and mobile phones to release internal mechanisms. They’ve even been used to pick locks and handcuffs. But

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Silver Skewers & Letter Openers

12 April 2010

An elegant dining table in Georgian times would have included silver cutlery, dishes, candles, wine coasters and other silver tableware, but when the poultry was brought to the table even the turkey, chicken or duck would be trussed and skewered with silver skewers. The metal skewers used in the kitchen were thought not to be [...]

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Silver Keyrings & Copoclephily

27 July 2009

Someone asked me the other day why we offered so many keyrings for sale. To cater for copoclephilist’s I replied tongue-in-cheek, and then went on to explain what a copoclephilist is.

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Silver Pepper Mills at Annabel’s

15 June 2009

Annabel’s, one of the most famous nightclubs in London, is reopening its restaurant this evening following a refurbishment program.

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Silver Desk Accessories

3 June 2009

We’ve had a selection of desk accessories available for a while, but we’ve now put them together under one category of our site, called not unnaturally, Silver Desk Accessories.

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