Margaret Binley

{{Short description|British silversmith}}

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Margaret Binley or Bingley (née Stallwood) was an 18th-century English silversmith.

A specialist in the creation of wine labels,{{cite web|url=https://www.antiquesilverspoons.co.uk/mountain-label-2787|title=Margaret Binley Silver Mountain Label|website=www.antiquesilverspoons.co.uk|accessdate=Mar 5, 2019}}{{cite web|url=http://www.waxantiques.com/silver-makers/margaret-binley-london/10155|title=Margaret Binley - Antique Silver from waxantiques|website=www.waxantiques.com|accessdate=Mar 5, 2019}} Binley is usually classified as a smallworker, although she is also listed as a bucklemaker, buttonmaker, and goldsmith. Resident in London, she registered her date mark on 15 May 1764, and continued active until the middle of the following decade.

In 1744 at London's All Hallows-on-the-Wall church, she married smallworker Richard Binley,London, England, Church of England Baptisms, Marriages and Burials, 1538–1812 from whom she was later widowed, and lived in Gutter Lane.{{cite book|author1=Philippa Glanville|author2=Jennifer Faulds Goldsborough|author3=National Museum of Women in the Arts (U.S.)|title=Women Silversmiths, 1685-1845: Works from the Collection of the National Museum of Women in the Arts|url=https://archive.org/details/womensilversmith0000glan|url-access=registration|year=1990|publisher=Thames and Hudson|isbn=978-0-500-23578-2}} No record of apprenticeship or freedom has been found.{{cite web|url=https://lapada.org/art-and-antiques/antique-george-iii-silver-wine-label/|title=Antique George III Silver Wine Label - LAPADA|website=lapada.org|accessdate=Mar 5, 2019}}

Examples of Binley's work continue to turn up for sale.{{cite web|url=https://www.marycooke.co.uk/antique-silver/d/a-fine-george-iii-wine-label-made-in-london-circa-1770-by-margaret-binley/325666/ |title=A fine George III Wine Label made in London circa 1770 by Margaret Binley - Mary Cooke Antiques LTD |publisher=Marycooke.co.uk |date= |accessdate=2019-03-05}} A Hermitage wine label, dated to around 1775, is owned by the National Museum of Women in the Arts in Washington, D.C., in the United States.