Gem Tool (Mfg) Co. Ltd.

Gem Tool (Mfg) Co. Ltd., 6 Regent Place, Jewellery Quarter, Birmingham, 2005 • Old workshop in Brum’s fascinating Jewellery Quarter. Now gone; Google Street View shows a faded patch where the hand-made door sign was.

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By Vici MacDonald
On 2015/06/25
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2005, Birmingham, Shopfront Elegy, West Midlands

amateur signwriting, engineering, extinct, final closure, handmade, jeweller, signage, works

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