Brewer's: Silver of Guthrum

or Guthram's Lane. Fine silver; so called because in the thirteenth and fourteenth centuries the principal gold- and silver-smiths resided there.

Source: Dictionary of Phrase and Fable, E. Cobham Brewer, 1894
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