Such an evaluation of gold jewellery is done by a goldsmith with the help of a touchstone. |
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Ms Stiles met an Italian goldsmith called Fabio during a silversmith lesson on her most recent visit to Italy. |
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In olden days, crooks used to shave or clip the edges of coins and then sell the shavings to a disreputable goldsmith or silversmith. |
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Polishers, setters and a goldsmith all work here on view, and more than 2,500 pieces of diamond jewellery and unset diamonds are displayed. |
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Max, a goldsmith and engraver, established a company that manufactured costume jewelry. |
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A goldsmith jeweller who quit the rat race for the greener climes of South Lakeland says the future looks bright for his business. |
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Andrea was one of four children, and as usual with Italians of artistic temperament, he was set to work under the eye of a goldsmith. |
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At the time of his death, he was described as both a goldsmith and a silver merchant. |
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Joan was born as the son of a goldsmith and jewelry maker in Barcelona in Northern Spain. |
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The wreath was supposedly made of pure gold, and Archimedes had to determine whether the goldsmith had replaced some of the gold with silver. |
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The meditator, for example, is likened to a goldsmith, or to a fletcher straightening the mind like an arrow. |
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In the bottom register a goldsmith is putting finishing touches to a column headed by horses' heads and a bell-like top with a winged genie. |
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Exhibitions celebrating the art of the goldsmith are a familiar feature of the annual programme at Goldsmiths' Hall. |
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The busts, as well as the silver and parcel-gilt decorations, are by the Augsburg goldsmith Ludwig Schneider. |
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She was the daughter of a Cheapside mercer and wife of a Lombard Street goldsmith, and exercised great influence over Edward IV by her beauty and wit. |
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A goldsmith and enameller is putting the finishing touches to a gold crown heavily encrusted with large cabochons. |
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Virtuoso, melodist and talent harmonist, to the precision of goldsmith, endowed with a skill not very common. |
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His fame rested above all on his ability to produce designs for tapestry, embroideries, stained glass, armory, and goldsmith work in the new classical idiom. |
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In 1648, a Sofia goldsmith made a silver and gold plate for the book. |
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The art and trade of the goldsmith and minter have, therefore, come down to us from antiquity. |
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The art of the goldsmith has its roots in prehistory, developed to a sophisticated degree at a time when visual art amounted to little more than primitive cave paintings. |
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She apprenticed with master goldsmith and jeweller Antoine Lamarche and then became an assistant to jeweller Roland Dubuc. |
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I guess it begins with Shakespeare, but it includes She Stoops to Conquer by goldsmith. |
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Aspinall and goldsmith definitely had the means and the motive to help Lucan flee. |
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So when it came to the wire, Aspinall and goldsmith would have seen their friend right, whatever the consequences. |
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About 1586 Pereyns made the retable of Huejotzingo the only retable he worked on that remains intact with Concha, sculptor Pedro de Requena, and goldsmith Marcos de San Pedro. |
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Each unthreatened goldsmith on an island tile earns three gold. |
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The goldsmith John of Antwerp and a few German neighbours signed as witnesses. |
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Easter eggs were on the mind of Alexander III, who commissioned Peter Carl Fabergé, jeweler and goldsmith to the Russian imperial court, to make an elaborate jewel of an Easter egg for his wife, Maria Fyodorovna. |
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This work, depicting a celebration of his birthday, was made for a German contemporary, Augustus the Strong, by Dresden's greatest goldsmith, J. M. Dinglinger. |
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This is a processional cross of gold-plated and engraved silver that was made in the sixteenth century and is attributed to the goldsmith Alfaro of Seville. |
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In the late 1940s, he began to work as a goldsmith, studying European techniques in jewellery making at Ryerson Polytechnical in Toronto and applying them to Haida designs. |
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Paintings from the Antequera School, popular religious sculpture, goldsmith work and a select collection of works by the Antequerano painter Cristóbal Toral are also shown in the museum galleries. |
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She gave Coventry a number of works in precious metal by the famous goldsmith Mannig and bequeathed a necklace valued at 100 marks of silver. |
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In January 1540, King James V commissioned the royal goldsmith, John Mosman, to refashion the Crown of Scotland. |
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The tree, topped by a triumphant angel, was crafted by Guillaume Boucher, a Parisian goldsmith. |
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Having previously worked as a professional goldsmith, Gutenberg made skillful use of the knowledge of metals he had learned as a craftsman. |
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Tower Place was a Tudor mansion built in the 1540s for Martin Bowes, a wealthy goldsmith and merchant, later Lord Mayor of London. |
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It has makers or sponsors marks for Henrik Wigstrom, a jeweller and goldsmith who was, from 1903, head workmaster for the Faberge firm. |
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As the son of a goldsmith, AntoineLouis Barye learned early what it was to be a disciplined craftsman. |
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Gutenberg, a goldsmith by profession, developed a printing system, by adapting existing technologies to printing purposes, as well as making inventions of his own. |
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This state became powerful due to the local goldsmith industry and it also had commercial ties and a diplomatic rivalry with the Champa civilization. |
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The city's records show that on 10 December 1517, he was fined five livres for fighting in the street with a goldsmith called Caspar, who was fined the same amount. |
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The entire order, indeed, and the very institution itself, received a further humiliation by the elevation of a ruptuary, Raoul, a goldsmith, to the honors of nobility. |
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