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Many machines are available which can perform centrifugal casting, and they are relatively simple to construct. All that is required is an arm which rotates with an adequate amount of centrifugal force, a container on the end of said arm to hold both a mold and the material to be cast into the mold.
Embossed silver sarcophagus of Saint Stanislaus in the Wawel Cathedral, created in the main centers of 17th-century European silversmithery – Augsburg and Gdańsk [1]. A silversmith is a metalworker who crafts objects from silver.
Detail of reliquary arm of St Thomas (Maastricht silver, ±1450). Treasury of the Basilica of Saint Servatius, Maastricht. Maastricht silver is a collective name for silver objects produced in Maastricht, Netherlands, mainly in the 17th and 18th centuries, when the town was a major centre for silversmithing.
While he did buy and sell silver goods, he was primarily a general trader. His son Joseph Moulton (1694-1750) has also been proposed as the first Moulton to work in silver, but he was actually a blacksmith by trade, though he likely turned his hand to whatever came through his shop door.
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The SAS offered the Hans Christensen Sterling Silversmith's Award until 2006, a lifetime achievement award in silversmithing. The award was named after Hans Christensen (1924–1983), a metalsmith and a former professor at Rochester Institute of Technology (RIT).
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Stone was born in 1903 in London, son of a carpenter, Arthur Stone, and Ada, née Scantlebury. A childhood accident that nearly resulted in the loss of his arm affected his education, limiting the possible trades he could enter, and at 14 he began training in the silversmithing department of London's Central School of Arts and Crafts.