La familia de plateros Lado. De Andrés Lado Puente (1857-1931) a Julio Lado Martínez (1935). La continuación hasta la actualidad de un oficio milenario en Santiago de Compostela.

A recent exhibition in Santiago de Compostela has collected the career of the silversmith Julio Lado Martínez, last witness of a centuries-old saga of Compostela silversmiths. The aim of this article is to publicise our research on this family by focusing on those members who preceded Julio, in which, through the consult of the archives of the city, we have been able to collect an enormous number of documents, especially historical press reports, which tell us about important missing works, for example, several offered to important politicians or even to the kings of Spain. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]