Featured Sterling modernist jewellery maker - MET

Hello all

I bought this fantastic modernist jewellery set, and I need help with the maker. My searches for me nowhere.

Full UK hallmarks for London 1978, maker MET.

The box is custom made and all of excellent quality, so I hope it is a known designer. Even has silver hinges and clasp on the box.

Total weight for the bracelet and two rings is 103.5 grams.

 

neat - o............... Mr Brown !!!
Nice find !!

 

It's no one I can think of off hand. Lovely set. Those look like vertebrae.

 

That is amazing!. I agree with OBB it looks like vertebrae.
It reminds me of some pieces made by museums but that is a serious gift shop item!!
Could be a one off?

 

It really does look like vertebrae doesn't it. I have sent an email to the London assay office asking for help-they have a sponsor tracing service for post 1975 items.

It will take a couple of weeks but maybe I'll get an answer.

 

Funny that jewelry designer of such quality has disappeared without trace.

Debora

 

The box is a odd though. The wood and shaping of the recess looks a little err…rustic….but those hinges are classy!. Slightly looks like someone made a box just for this item?

 

Please let us know

 

Fabulous set!

 

Very interesting! And that box, wow!
Sorry, this healthcare professional is going to dissent from the vertebral comparison.

 

Artistic licence. Bit like china painters not being botanists.

 

Right! With the custom made box and everything. Please keep us posted!

 

I'll let you all know as soon as I get an answer.

 

Wow! those are beautiful!

 

Usually when I hear MET I'm thinking pewter, but not in this case. Not with a full set of London marks it isn't. Is there a museum over there that has Metropolitan in the name? The Metropolitan Museum of Art here in the USA uses MMA on their pieces.

 

Initials perhaps?

Debora

 

MET is the hallmark sponsor.

 

So I have my answer from the London Assay Office. Maker is Michael Eric Tickle, a fantastic name but sadly I can't find a single reference online.

"We can only identify a maker by their sponsors/makers initials – thank you for including a clear image of this!

This maker is called Michael Eric Tickle. They are out of registration and I have no further information."

 

New one on me, too.