London Silver Vaults

The London Silver Vaults has been a centre of the silver trade since 1953 when retail units were opened in the basement of the premises at 53-64 Chancery Lane. It’s history goes back even further however. In 1876, the building originally opened as the Chancery Lane Safety Deposit and during the Second World War the vaults became used as a store for silver and valuables as London suffered from bombing damage.

When it was rebuilt eight years after the war, many of the silver dealers who had previously rented space there decided to take up the units in the newly fitted retail space. Today it remains a prominent location for antique silver with specialist dealers offering a wide range of wares.

Murderer of silver dealer given life sentence

 13 December 2013

A man has been sentenced to life in prison for the “cold and calculated” killing of a silver dealer.

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The silver vaults - 60 years as a London institution

 15 August 2013

Back in 1953, The London Silver Vaults opened on the site of the 1880s Chancery Lane Safe Deposit Company, where the great and the good (and no doubt not so good) of London stowed their valuables.

Veterans for the Vaults

 26 January 2005

AFTER more than 41 years, veteran silver dealers Hymie and Shirley Dinerstein have left West London’s Portobello Road.

... in the Silver Vaults

 28 May 2002

THIS wig powderer was made in York in 1817. Described in Michael Clayton’s book The Collector’s Dictionary of Silver & Gold of Great Britain & North America as “a tapering cylinder, from the cover of which rises a tube with a mouth of spherical form,” this type is dated to around 1800.

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