Robert Stone (silversmith)

Robert Edgar Stone (1903–1990) was an English silversmith who worked in the mid-20th century and was noted for hand-crafted commissions.

A childhood accident that nearly resulted in the loss of his arm affected his education, limiting the possible trades he could enter, and at 14 he began training in the silversmithing department of London's Central School of Arts and Crafts.

Stone's works were distinguished by being hand crafted throughout his career, during an era of increasing mass production of goods such as silverware.

[4] He was responsible for a number of major commissions, including a cross and candlesticks for the Temple Church, London; an altar cross for the Wren Chapel, Pembroke College, Cambridge, and a rosebowl made from palladium, a rarely used precious metal, prepared for the Institute of Metallurgy as a gift to Princess Margaret.

[2] Stone married Dorothy Rae in 1929 and had two daughters, Jean (also a silversmith) and Christine (a painter).