Margaret Binley

Margaret Binley
NationalityEnglish
OccupationSilversmith

Margaret Binley or Bingley (née Stallwood) was an 18th-century English silversmith.

A specialist in the creation of wine labels,[1][2] Binley is usually classified as a smallworker, although she is also listed as a bucklemaker, buttonmaker, and goldsmith. Resident in London, she registered her date mark on 15 May 1764, and continued active until the middle of the following decade.

In 1744 at London's All Hallows-on-the-Wall church, she married smallworker Richard Binley,[3] from whom she was later widowed, and lived in Gutter Lane.[4] No record of apprenticeship or freedom has been found.[5]

Examples of Binley's work continue to turn up for sale.[6][5][1][2] A Hermitage wine label, dated to around 1775, is owned by the National Museum of Women in the Arts in Washington, D.C., in the United States.[4]

  1. ^ a b "Margaret Binley Silver Mountain Label". www.antiquesilverspoons.co.uk. Retrieved 5 March 2019.
  2. ^ a b "Margaret Binley - Antique Silver from waxantiques". www.waxantiques.com. Retrieved 5 March 2019.
  3. ^ London, England, Church of England Baptisms, Marriages and Burials, 1538–1812
  4. ^ a b Philippa Glanville; Jennifer Faulds Goldsborough; National Museum of Women in the Arts (U.S.) (1990). Women Silversmiths, 1685-1845: Works from the Collection of the National Museum of Women in the Arts. Thames and Hudson. ISBN 978-0-500-23578-2.
  5. ^ a b "Antique George III Silver Wine Label - LAPADA". lapada.org. Retrieved 5 March 2019.
  6. ^ "A fine George III Wine Label made in London circa 1770 by Margaret Binley - Mary Cooke Antiques LTD". Marycooke.co.uk. Retrieved 5 March 2019.