These guides cover the questions we are asked most often in the London Silver Vaults: how to read a hallmark, how to judge an antique piece, how to choose silver for an occasion, and how to look after it once it is yours. Each draws on buying and selling silver since 1994.
Buying advice
Judging antique and vintage silver, and reading the marks on it.
A Guide to Buying Antique & Vintage Silver
A Guide to Buying Antique & Vintage Silver Every antique or vintage piece we sell is genuinely individual — a different maker, a different…Understanding UK Hallmarks: A Buyer’s Guide
Understanding UK Hallmarks: A Buyer's Guide A UK hallmark is a legal guarantee, not a decorative flourish — every piece we sell carries one.…Gifting
Choosing silver for an occasion, and making it personal.
A Guide to Anniversary Gifts in Silver
A wedding anniversary is one of the few occasions with a naming convention built in: the 25th is silver by tradition, which is as…
A Guide to Christening Gifts in Silver
Choosing a christening gift usually comes down to one question: what will still mean something in twenty years? Silver has answered that question for…
A Guide to Christmas Gifts in Silver
Christmas gifting tends toward the disposable, silver is the deliberate exception. Every piece we sell is fully hallmarked UK sterling silver, chosen to be…
A Guide to Commemorative Silver Gifts
Commemorative silver marks a specific, dateable event: a jubilee, a coronation, a national or royal occasion, in a material built to outlast the event…
A Guide to Presentation & Corporate Gifts in Silver
A Guide to Presentation & Corporate Gifts in Silver A presentation gift, for a retirement, a leaving date, a long-service award, or a corporate…
A Guide to Wedding Gifts in Silver
Silver became a traditional wedding gift for a practical reason as much as a sentimental one: it doesn't tarnish the way plated metal does,…Care
Looking after silver so that it lasts.
Services
Commissions and work made to order.