silversmith
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- History
- Tools, materials and techniques
- Notable and historical silversmiths
- See also
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thumb|Repoussé and chasing|Embossed silver sarcophagus of Saint Stanislaus in the [[Wawel Cathedral, created in the main centers of 17th-century European silversmithery – Augsburg and Gdańsk]]
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 were, at least) largely the same. Being both much heavier and far more expensive, gold objects are typically a good deal smaller.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “silversmith” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.