Temporary Special Exhibit: Silversmiths of Olde Mobile

Featuring beautifully crafted antique silver, dating from the 1830s to early 1900s. Featured artisans include James Conning, the L'Hommedieu Brothers, Charles White, and more.   Silversmith Biography: James Conning James Conning was born in New York in 1815 and first worked as a New York silversmith circa 1840.  In his mid-twenties, however, Conning left the North and relocated to Mobile, Alabama, where he set up shop as a jeweler.  The “adopted Southerner” first