Abingdon Silver Group

No RAAC issues at John Mason, so we only missed one week.

John Mason School have cancelled our first scheduled session whist they conduct detailed surveys to determine if there are issues with RAAC.  We await further news.

We start again on 13 September and dates are set until July 2024.  Please look here. As Easter is early, the Spring term is short, but we expect to have an extended summer term if

Currently our display is the first thing you see on entering the Abingdon County Hall museum.

A sterling silver plaque with the imprint of our two punches was donated to the Abingdon County Hall Museum on 6 April.  It was accompanied by an explanatory document, which was also deposited in the

  In the splendour of the Abingdon Town Council Chamber, this is our stand at the Abingdon Town Council’s Clubs and Societies day on 18 March 2023.  The stand was manned (personed?) by at least

As of this post, there is only one space available for the October 2022 course (and one expression of interest for 2023!). Please contact John Huddleston if you would like this place.

See here.  Also the dates of the teaching class are here.

To record work done by members of the group, we have commissioned two punches to our own design. The design leans heavily on the crest for Abingdon and the crescent moon is an alchemical symbol

With grateful thanks to Elin Bornemann, the collections officer at the museum, members of the group had an after-hours visit to the museum to see the display of silver.  Jackie Smith gave a talk about