The Glovers' Silver Steward, Peter Maxwell-Aylwin tells of how they came to be "I was approached by Past Master John Spanner about the possibility of designing and manufacturing a new piece of Silverware to be gifted by him to the Livery Company. He had a fairly firm idea as to what he would like, hence the birth of the idea for the silver glove. I created a wax mould, and then a silicon rubber mould so that I could cast this piece by the lost wax process. The next stage was to cast the wax pattern in Sterling Silver which we did at an approx. total weight of 3.5 Kilo’s. Having a successful cast, I had to remove and fill the casting Spur’s and fine file the glove. The next stage was to chase the detail into the silver using fine tools and a chasing hammer, the hammered finish was applied to represent the texture of leather. On completion of this it was time to hand raise the liner from a flat circle of silver, using a sandbag to start followed by a raising hammer and stake, finally being planished by hammer to a smooth finish. The liner was then fitted to the glove and silver soldered into place. This is when the glove was sent to be assayed and on return was polished, gilded and hand engraved with the relevant wording."
Silver Steward Peter Maxwell-Aylwin
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