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Ann Craig was an English silversmith. Recorded as a
largeworker A largeworker was a form of silversmith A silversmith is a metalworker who crafts objects from silver. The terms ''silversmith'' and ''goldsmith'' are not exactly synonyms as the techniques, training, history, and guilds are or were largely ...
, Craig was the wife of silversmith John Craig. He died around 1735, and on 15 October 1740 she registered her own mark. She was active until around 1745, working in partnership with John Neville. Her address was the corner of Norris Street, St James's,
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; her husband had previously been in partnership with George Wickes at the same location. Among her customers with Neville was
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. Craig and Neville were the makers of a George II saucepan, dating to 1742, in the collection of the
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