Albion Smith is a California jeweller and silversmith known for ornate functional items, including a piece in the Smithsonian Institution.
Smith's work includes a combination of jewelry (rings, bracelets, pendants) and functional objects such as teapots, goblets, flasks, urns and keepsake boxes.
The patterns of ornamentation in his works are frequently cut from silver sheet and soldered to the base plate.
Many of his works are adorned with semi-precious or precious stones, bone, horn, and even ancient mastodon tusk from glacier-finds in Alaska and Siberia.
In 1996, another of his teapots [1] was made part of the permanent collection at the Smithsonian Museum of American Art in Washington, DC.