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He executed jewellery, metal and shagreen work for John Paul Cooper at Westerham during 1911-12.  He was invited to work with Emil Lettré in Berlin, and returned in 1913 to Birmingham where he assisted in the teaching at the Vittoria Street School, before his career was interrupted by war service. He founded the Langstone silver works in 1920.  He was a fertile designer and a vigorous champion of his own firm and the contemporary trade.  He was President of the Birmingham Jewellers Association in 1937 and active in the preparation of the British Art in Industry Exhibition at Burlington House in 1935.  He is said to have employed over forty people at the peak of his commercial success, and to have sold his work to Liberty's and Sibyl Dunlop.","physicalDescription":"Silver hoop with broad and long silver bezel which has applied gold foliage decoration and is set with three faceted citrines and four half pearls.  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She had first seen it in about 1976 at another dealer.","historicalContext":"One of a number of rings by Instone decorated with foliage and set with pearls and citrines which have been seen in the trade in London.","briefDescription":"Gold and silver ring set with citrines and pearls, made by Bernard Instone, Birmingham, ca. 1925-35","bibliographicReferences":[{"reference":{"text":"","id":""},"details":"","free":"<font -u>Birmingham Gold and Silver, 1773-1973: an exhibition celebrating the Bicentenary of the Assay Office</font>.  Birmingham: City Museum and Art Gallery, 1973, section H."},{"reference":{"text":"","id":""},"details":"","free":"Kuzmanovic, Natasha. <font -u>John Paul Cooper</font>.  Thrupp, Stroud, Gloucestershire: Sutton Publishing, 1999."},{"reference":{"text":"","id":""},"details":"","free":"Henriksen, Tracy. <u>Bernard Instone Designer and Craftsman: the art of a jeweller</u>. Elegantium: 2022. 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