Peter Johns

1960 - School of Silversmiths and Allied Crafts at CSAC while doing an apprenticeship at Blunt & Ray
silversmith and technical tutor at Hornsey School of Art and Middlesex Polytechnic (later Middlesex University)
invented Argentium Silver as a result of research at the Art and Design Research Institute (ADRI), School of Art & Design, Middlesex University. The project began in 1990 with research on the effects of germanium additions to silver alloys. Germanium was discovered to impart the following properties to sterling silver of Argentium® sterling silver, a trademarked and patented sterling silver alloy