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The amateur silversmith

It started as hobby and soon became a passion. Geraldine Holden tells us where the art and science of silver unite.

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Birth, babies and boxes of memories

With memories of her baby in neonatal intensive care still fresh, Erin Beeston decides to unearth the poignant objects her family kept following births, going back as far as Victorian times.

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Finding a cure for homesickness

While technology can mitigate some aspects of homesickness, other components of home are harder to replicate. Find out how 21st-century studies are helping homesickness sufferers find silver linings in their new situation.

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The spectacle maker

Born into the eyewear business 80 years ago, Lawrence Jenkin still designs and makes glasses, while supporting and inspiring the generations of designers following him.

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  • Silver Catheter
  • Heuchera 'Silver Scrolls'
  • Silver eye baths.
  • Silver nipple shield
  • Silver nipple shield
  • Betula pendula (Silver birch)
  • Lamium maculatum 'Beacon Silver'
  • Silver plated artificial nose.
  • Silver medicine spoon, French?
  • Silver tongue-scraper, marked 1827
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