Cigarette Case

Margaret Craver was one of the senior figures in the development of American craft education after the Second World War. She made this case during the summer of 1946 at a conference that was organised by the Goldsmiths’ Company and held at the Central School of Arts and Crafts in London. Craver was taught silversmithing by Baron Erik Fleming of the Atelier Borgila in Stockholm in 1938. During the war she initiated a series of occupational therapy workshops for disabled veterans. These started in the New York factory of the silver refiners Handy & Harma and spread to a number of hospitals. The course at the Central School in 1946 bore fruit in both Great Britain and the United States. In Brit

Cigarette case · London · 1946. Silver, with oxidised detail. By Craver Withers, Margret. Victoria and Albert Museum, London.