Presentation silver is one of the most enduring forms of the art of silver-making, which succeeds in blending style and aesthetics with a pure human need to express appreciations or to offer congratulations. For the sake of scholarship, so little attention has been paid to the Chinese presentation silver pieces with some crucial historic figures that firmly connect the history of China with internationally its engaged past. This article will introduce such silver pieces of three people that would shed new light on the material cultural history about silver and some relevant people and events. We hope this paper will be the beginning of many to focus specifically on historic silver pieces so that we gain a better understanding of the roles they play in the undocumented history of China and its study.