Gold miner Randgold, and silver maker Fresnillo, both rallied - matching the jump in precious metals prices.
Not that there weren't other jobs: at No 19 was a gardener, Richard Webb, and at No 37 a jeweller, Thomas Sparkes; many others – silversmiths, gold chain-makers, silver swivel- makers – were also in the jewellery trade.
Rembrandt's The Night Watch is still in pride of place but now a whole new gallery has been devoted to his young life, too, with glass and silver by makers of his acquaintance, and a portrait of his friend Jan Lievens of Constantijn Huygens, patron of the arts – the better that visitors might get a sense of the world in which the master was working.
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It was one of their presidents - who could remember which, they never stayed out of jail long enough to make memorizing their names worth the effort - who'd given Charlie the monumentally expensive, solid silver Faema espresso maker whose ambrosia he was savoring at this very moment.... six, seven, eight... Ring! Perfect timing.
His father was a manufacturers' representative for makers of silver and costume jewelry.
The clouds over Apple's launch of its large-screened iPhone 6 Plus - which some users say they have unwittingly bent - could have a silver lining for accessory makers.
But those little silver particles have run Maker Enterprises, the Metzger brothers' partnership in Los Angeles, into a big regulatory thicket.
It is also on the way to joining the top five integrated aluminum producers and the largest maker of silver in Asia.
Passing the coffee maker — a silver, fully automated Keurig affair — she remarked with a chuckle, "We've come up in the world!" Of course, getting a K-cup machine isn't the only way City Hall has changed since Genis last sat on the dais.
