Henry George Murphy, aka H. G. Murphy (1884 in Birchington,

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– 1939) was an English art-deco silversmith.

Career

Murphy was apprenticed to

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in 1899. At age 14 he entered the Central School of Arts and Crafts in London. In July 1912 he was employed by Emil Lettre in Berlin. He found the work unfulfilling and left after six weeks. The same year he opened his own workshop in London. During

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he enlisted in the Royal Navy Air Service. In 1928 he started the Falcon Studio, comprising a workshop and retail outlet in

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, London. He returned to the Central School and remained there, teaching goldsmithing and enamelling, and became the first head of silversmithing, and later principal of the school in 1936.Atterbury, Paul and Benjamin, Joh
The Jewellery & Silver of H. G. Murphy: Arts and Crafts to Art Deco
Antique Collectors' Club (2005). . Retrieved 20 May 2013

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Platt War Memorial Website
English silversmiths People from Birchington-on-Sea 1884 births 1939 deaths Art Deco sculptors 20th-century British sculptors {{UK-artist-stub

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