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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.)
CHRONOLOGY
The Goldsmiths & Silversmiths Co - 1880 - 1898
The Goldsmiths & Silversmiths Co Ltd - from 1898
amalgamated with Garrard & Co - 1952
STERLING SILVER HALLMARKS
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William Gibson & John Langman, Sheffield, entered 1881
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William Gibson & John Langman, London, entered 1882. Similar marks were entered in 1894
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William Gibson & John Langman, London, entered 1883. Similar marks were entered in 1894
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William Gibson & John Langman, London, entered 1890. Similar marks were entered in London in 1893, 1894, 1895, 1897 and 1898 and in Sheffield in 1883. The latter also as The Manufacturing Goldsmiths and Silversmiths Company
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Goldsmiths & Silversmiths Co Ltd, London, entered 1899. Similar marks were entered in 1900 in London, in Dublin (possibly 1897) and in Chester (1908)
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Goldsmiths & Silversmiths Co Ltd, Sheffield, entered 1899
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Goldsmiths & Silversmiths Co Ltd, London, entered 1904. Similar marks were entered in London (1908, 1911, 1913), Chester (c. 1907) and Glasgow (c. 1904)
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Goldsmiths & Silversmiths Co Ltd, Birmingham, entered before 1922
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Goldsmiths & Silversmiths Co Ltd, London 1935 Britannia Standard
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