Gebelein Silversmiths was an American silversmith shop, active in Boston during the twentieth century. The firm was founded by George Christian Gebelein (November 6, 1878 – January 25, 1945), who was born in , Bavaria, and emigrated to Somerville, Massachusetts, with his family as an infant. There his father found work as a sausage maker. Gebelein's education ended when he completed grammar school in 1893. He started work at the Washington Mills Company but soon left to apprentice from 1893-1897 as a silversmith at the Boston firm of Goodnow & Jenks. The firm's principal designer, Barton Pickering Jenks, was a master member of Boston's Society of Arts and Crafts, and the contemporary Arts and Crafts movement strongly influenced Gebelein. When he became a journeyman in 1897, he joined the T