Dad started teaching me jewellery when I was about 10 years old, all my spare time would be taken up looking over Dads shoulder. In 1980 he was commissioned to make the rings for the Flash Gordon film. I watched the whole process, if I remember correctly, Dad made 4 rings in all and guess what? He made an extra two just for me! You can imagine the excitement! If I am correct four of the rings are in a museum in The States and the other two are hidden away with my prize possessions! At the age of sixteen I left school and got down to learning The Trade. We moved to a workshop/shop in Manor Road in Folkestone (Kent) where one of my first jobs was to make a jewel encrusted ink well and dagger, Dad sold them to the agent that had commissioned the Flash Gordon Rings. To this day I still haven't found them on a film set! But I'm still looking!
