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Lianchang Silversmiths of Shanghai

Posted: May 14th, 2023 | No Comments »

I’ve posted about half a dozen other silversmiths in Shanghai in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries before (just put ‘silversmith’ in the search box to see). Here’s a smaller and less well known silversmith that moved from Canton to Shanghai sometime around the late nineteenth century as the trade moved up the coast…Lianchang (or sometimes spelt Lainchang). They were in business roughly c.1890-1925

Silver fruit knives and forks



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