It is always nice to add a new “name” to the Collection and this is such a piece.  For sale is the good sized and heavy gauge dish by the Scottish silversmith Dr. John Finlayson Lang (1883-1949).  The dish or bowl is hand raised and hand hammered with pierced Celtic design with raised wirework borders.  A lovely piece “in the hand” and very useful!

I have researched Lang and he was a skilled amateur silversmith who took silversmithing late in his life – quite possibly he was returning to his routes as his father Alexander Lang was a watchmaker.  Originally a teacher he then retrained at Glasgow Medical School as a doctor.  For most of his career he was the medical officer for Pumpherston Oil Company with a practice also serving the Bathgate and Seafield areas between Edinburgh and Glasgow (source: West Lothaian Courier obituary).

Price range: £675

Maker: Dr John Finlayson Lang

Designer: Dr John Finlayson Lang

Date: 1944

Marks: J.F.L, Edinburgh, “o”

Material: Sterling silver

Condition: Excellent

Size: 25.5 cm diameter, 2.75 cm high

Weight: 16.9 oz, 479 grams