A silversmith is a metalworker who crafts objects from silver. The terms silversmith and goldsmith are not exact synonyms, but the techniques, training, history, and guilds are largely the same. Being
Embossed silver sarcophagus of Saint Stanislaus in the Wawel Cathedral, created in the main centers of 17th-century European silversmithery – Augsburg and Gdańsk
Paul Revere with a silver teapot and some of his engraving tools
Dish made by hand-hammering
Metalworking is the process of shaping and reshaping metals in order to create useful objects, parts, assemblies, and large scale structures. As a term, it covers a wide and diverse range of processes
Silversmith
…A silversmith is a metalworker who crafts objects from silver. The terms silversmith and goldsmith are not exact synonyms, but the techniques, training, history, and guilds are (or…
A fireman turning a bar of metal on a lathe on the USS Harry S. Truman in 2004
Le Marteleur by Constantin Meunier (1886)
A turret-lathe operator machining parts for transport planes at the Consolidated Aircraft Corporation plant, Fort Worth, Texas, USA, in the 1940s
A combination square used for transferring designs