Greenwich residents don't have to travel to the Antiques Road Show to find out how much their grandmother's silver is worth. They can walk into The Silversmith on West Putnam Avenue and find an expert ...

One of the most famous 18th-century English silversmiths was a woman. Hester Bateman, the illiterate mother of three sons, was widowed in 1760 when her husband John, a silversmith, died. She took over ...

She married a man who made gold chains. He died after they had six children. He left the metal-working tools to his wife in his will so he must have known what a skillful silversmith she was. Hester ...