Weston Beamor launches ‘Staffordshire Hoard’ collection
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Birmingham casting house and CAD specialist Weston Beamor has released a collection of jewellery based on ‘The Staffordshire Hoard’.
The Hoard is a collection of over 4,000 Anglo-Saxon treasure objects in gold and silver which was found in a field near Lichfield, Staffordshire, in 2009.
The pieces are now jointly owned by the Birmingham and Stoke-on-Trent city councils, and cared for on their behalf by the Birmingham Museums Trust and the Potteries Museum Art & Gallery in Stoke-on-Trent.
The Weston Beamor range – of which the design came from Natalia Antunivity, a final year BA 3D design student – is made in silver gilt with rich red, cold enamelling and comprises a pendant and earring set, with cufflinks set to follow.
The Hoard collection was designed initially as part of a competition staged by the Jewellery Innovation Centre (JIIC) in Birmingham. Students at the School of Jewellery were invited to put forward their designs with and the three winning pieces would later be made up for the museum by one of three Birmingham manufacturers.
The range is set to be sold in the shop at Birmingham Museum & Art Gallery with 10% of all profits going directly to support the ongoing research work on the Staffordshire Hoard, as well as other work by the museum.
Weston Beamor said the museum will have exclusivity on the design of the range for the next six months.
