Sir Alan Charles Laurence Whistler was a British glass engraver and poet. He was both the first President of the British Guild of Glass Engravers and the first recipient of the King's Gold Medal for Poetry.
Laurence Whistler photographed by Howard Coster in the 1950s
Paul Storr was an English goldsmith and silversmith working in the Neoclassical and other styles during the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries. His works range from simple tableware to magnificent sculptural pieces made for royalty.
1845 portrait of Storr
Pair of candlesticks, 1833–34, Los Angeles County Museum of Art
Detail of a William IV silver tray, showing the maker's mark of Paul Storr on the underside, London, 1835
An 1810 silver-gilt wine-cooler with bas-relief frieze, Vermeil Room, White House