Dinah Gamon Explained

Dinah Gamon
Nationality:	English
Occupation:	Silversmith

Dinah Gamon (née Tillett^[1]) was an English silversmith.

Gamon was married to largeworker John Gamon^[2] at St Stephen Walbrook on 28 May 1726;^[1] with him she had two sons, William and John.^[3] After her husband's death she registered a mark of her own on 6 March 1740, giving a London address in Staining Lane near Goldsmiths' Hall. Her classification was that of largeworker, like her husband.^[2]

A George II creamer of 1743 by Gamon is owned by the National Museum of Women in the Arts,^[2] while a punch ladle of 1740-41 is in the collection of the Minneapolis Institute of Arts.^[4] During her career she also produced a number of pieces of communion plate.^{[5] [6] [7]}

Notes and References

1. Web site: Silver Forums at 925-1000.com. www.925-1000.com. Mar 8, 2019.
2. Book: Philippa Glanville. Jennifer Faulds Goldsborough. National Museum of Women in the Arts (U.S.). Women Silversmiths, 1685-1845: Works from the Collection of the National Museum of Women in the Arts. registration. 1990. Thames and Hudson. 978-0-500-23578-2.
3. Web site: Koopman Rare Art - Artist Details. www.koopman.art. Mar 8, 2019.
4. Web site: Punch ladle, Dinah Gamon ^ Minneapolis Institute of Art. collections.artsmia.org. Mar 8, 2019.
5. Book: John Newman. North East and East Kent. 1983. Yale University Press. 978-0-300-09613-2. 438–.
6. Book: Wilfred Joseph Cripps. Old English Plate: Ecclesiastical, Decorative, and Domestic, Its Makers and Marks : with 122 Illustrations, and Upwards of 2,500 Facsimiles of Plate Marks. 1894. J. Murray. 417–.
7. Church Plate in Kent . Archaeologia Cantiana . 25 . C. R. . Woodruff . 1902. Kent Archaeological Society . 190– .