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Jewelers and silversmiths have held some interesting combinations of occupations. Here's one that I just came across: from the Gazetteer & Business Directory for Albany & Schenectady Co, New York 1870-71, Jacob Knupfer, jeweler and lager beer saloon, 28 Howard, City of Albany.
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‘The Bengal Directory and Annual Register for the Year 1838’ has listed in Calcutta, a 'Mr Mayer' as 'Engraver and Biscuit maker'.

Trev.
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Richard Lockwood (Grimwade 2357, 2359), is described in London directories of 1808 as a 'Goldsmith & Undertaker'.

Trev.
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William Walker Jr is listed in the 1850 Attleborough, Massachusetts census with the occupations mason and jeweller.
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John Stewart of 5, Key Hill Drive, Key Hill, is listed in Kelly's Post Office Directory of Birmingham - 1879 as Silversmith & Manufacturer of Improved Artificial Baits for Fishing.

Trev.
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The artificial fishing baits could well have been silver lures which attract fish by catching the light and moving randomly in the water. Such items are still for sale today. Even an old stainless steel spoon will sometimes do the trick; the fish don't seem to look for hallmarks.

Mike
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Ah, yes. Good thinking Mike, I wasn't thinking along those lines.

Regards Trev.
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Silversmiths and jewelers quite often transition to other lines of work. Their backgrounds give them a pretty wide open field to choose from when economic necessities or other factors call for a job change.

In the second half of the nineteenth century, Pardon M Stone of Providence, Rhode Island went from being a jeweler to being a corset manufacturer.

I don't quite see the fit, but obviously he did.
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Jewellers and corset makers, both live off 'the fat of the land'

Trev.
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Thomas Thames Faux, turned from Silversmith and retailer jeweller to running a Lunatic Asylum !
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Buckler, that is a natural progression when dealing with the public!
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We should not here forget the equally wonderfully named Spranger Barry, the subject of a previous Contributor's Note, who went from silversmith to actor to theatre manager.

Mike
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Just when you thought my sense of humour had been mislaid would you please oblige me by giving no detail on how "I Beg Your" Pardon Stone made the corsets. Images of ladies in close fitting suits of silver armour have already caused old knees to shake.
And finally, if born at another time, would Spranger have been a star of the silver screen?

Apologies,
Mike
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Another person in the jewelry business that made what appears to be on the surface at least an unusual job change was Harry H Tammen of H H Tammen Curio Co. He went from being a bar tender to operating a free museum that apparently highlighted natural history of the Southwest to being newspaper owner.

The novelty company was another of his successful enterprises.

I say the leap from bartender to newspaper owner on the surface looks unusual, but I can't help thinking that it had something to do with fact that his father had been an editor and publisher in Independence, Iowa and likely worked in the same line in other locations as well.
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Edward Whitlock - Silversmith and Rent Collector.


Edward Whitlock & Co. - Birmingham - 1861


Edward Whitlock - Birmingham - 1861

Trev.

Thomas Branston, Silversmith and Water Bailiff.



Source: The Oracle and Public Advertiser. Saturday, 5th December 1795.

Thomas Branston was recorded by Sir Ambrose Heal as in partnership with a Mr Bird as 'Branston & Bird', Jewellers, Goldsmiths, Toymen & Clockmakers of 39, Cornhill, in 1775.

Trev.

Here's an unlikely combination.

In 1893 the English owned, Japanese based firm of retail and manufacturing silversmiths, Arthur & Bond advertised the services of a tattooist at their Yokohama branch.


Arthur & Bond - Yokohama - 1893

For more details of Arthur & Bond see: http://www.925-1000.com/forum/viewtopic ... 38&t=24259

Trev.

Lyman M Stanley is listed as a jewelry manufactory and undertaker in the 1877-'78 Attleboro, Massachusetts Business Directory, Published Biennially by E S Metcalf, Providence, Rhode Island.

Originating from The American Weekly Mercury 1724, Scipio, slave, age approximately 24, spoon maker, glazer, tinker and runaway.

Listed in Holden's Triennial Directory 1805, Jonas Hyam silversmith & slop seller King st Deptford.