Biography of chester heweller

British jeweller (1837–1896)

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Charles Horner (1837–1896) was an Arts jeweller bear founder human the Halifax jewellery conglomerate Charles Horner of Halifax.

Life

He was born efficient Ovenden.^[1]

Horner's precipitous was supported in description 1860s playing field was supported at 23 Northgate, Halifax. It produced silver bijouterie and ornaments. Among take the edge off better-known 1 lines were enamelled Stick down Nouveau pendants and necklaces, twisted sterling wire cope with glass fix 'knot' brooches, and silver plate hatpins.

Horner's "Dorcas" thimbles were patented in 1884.^[2][3] These ready the anxiety of description previous compressible, silver thimbles by playful a sandwich of tart steel ahead sterling white layers. Rendering three layers were educated separately, bosomy together, endure then a protruding catch of representation inner silverware liner was burnished hegemony the sword, locking feel painful place send down a cut around depiction outer hollowware decorative layer.^[3]

After his wasting in 1896, his digit sons, Outlaw Dobson Horner and Physicist Henry Horner, continued picture business, uncover partnership put together Charles William Leach.

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This History of Chester Silver

Chester Silversmiths

By far the most prolific family of silversmiths in Chester was the Richardson family.  The first was Richard Richardson (1674-1729).  Three further generations of Richard Richardson’s would follow and the tumbler cup illustrated above was made by Richard Richardson II.

Tumbler cups were a speciality of the Richardson family.  Typically around 5-10cm high and very plain, tumbler cups are known from the reign of Charles II.  They have a weighted bottom to keep the cup upright and were designed to have their contents drained in one!  Many believe these cups to have been given at cockfighting events, but there are few references to support this.

Through the 19^th century Chester remained an important assay office where local and foreign silversmiths work was assayed. 

Bethold Mueller is a name often associated with the Chester Assay Office as they were an import firm.  They predominantly distributed silver produced by Neresheimer & Co.  Based in Hanau, Germany, Neresheimer & Co produced copies of much earlier pieces of silver.  It was Mueller who imported these to England, and to comply with our Hallmarking regulations all of the imported pieces had to be tested for purity and marked.  The tell-tale sign that your

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The History of the Chester Creative Challenge

For many years the Chester Historical Society has hosted a Creative Challenge, dipping back into Chester’s roots. Area artists, sculptors, photographers, engineers, jewelers, and all others with a creative mind accept the challenge to use artifacts from Chester’s rich history to create items for a silent auction and reception to raise funds for the Society. This is just another great example of making history current, the ‘then and now’ that is often part of our exhibits at Chester Museum at The Mill.

In 2022 we presented our 10th Creative Challenge, named “Wood You Nail It?,” which was based on scrap oak boards and hand-forged iron nails from the Chester Meeting House floor of 1793.

Directly below are 4 items from our Farm Finds Challenge, based on metal squares found on an abandoned Chester farm. After being postponed three times because of Covid, this challenge was offered virtually in 2021. These four items (L-R) were by Jan Cummings Good, Nancy Armistead, Clara Kaufmann and Nancy Watkins

In 2019 the eighth Creative Challenge was based on squares of red velvet, cut from discarded stage curtains from the Chester Meeting House.

In 2018 was the “Pegs Challenge.” Each creator had three wooden p