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Until the 1920s the firm’s major commissions were for ecclesiastical and domestic objects, but from the early 1930s onwards they increasingly specialised in civic plate, including cups and trophies.\r\n\tJones himself had been a pupil of Edward Taylor at the Birmingham Art School, itself closely aligned with the Arts  and Crafts principles of the Birmingham School of Handcraft. During the first years of the business the firm's output  was chiefly in the Arts and Crafts style, with Jones writing in 1904: \"For many years past the Silversmith's Art has  become the Art of the Die-Sinker; the Silversmith only putting stamped parts together, thus making hundreds of  articles of exactly the same pattern, which at once becomes monotonous. For a piece of silver-work to be really  interesting it must be conceived as a work of Art, and to obtain that result it must be made by a workman who has  had an Art training...combining the skill of the artist and of the craftsman.\" As the firm developed it further blurred the distinction between artist- and trade-craftsman, and A. Edward Jones can be understood both as an 'Arts and Crafts' and as a 'trade' firm.","physicalDescription":"Designs for a tea set (tea pot, coffee pot, cream jug and sugar bowl) on one sheet of paper. The objects in the set are designed to be made from silver, shown by shading in silver and blue paint. The tea pot and coffee pot have black handles and finials, presumably to indicate wood. All of the objects are decorated with a civic coat of arms. The drawing is signed 'A. E. 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