Bernard Instone  (1891 - 1973)

He was a designer and manufacturer of silver and jewellery.

He had studied at Birmingham's Central School of Art from the age of 12. Which was followed by further training in the jewellery district of Birmingham. He worked in Berlin with Emile Lettre and with John Paul cooper in Kent.

In 1920 he established the Langstone Silver Works, producing tableware and jewellery. He was a liveryman of the Worshipful Company of Goldsmiths and was president of the Birmingham Jewellers' Association in 1937.

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