Author: Okie Pitcher, Howard Title: Old Silver and Old Sheffield Plate
Description: Garden City, New York, Doubleday, Doran & Company, Inc, 1942. Hardcover. black boards w/ debossed design & printing. book xii, 420 pgs w/ bw frontis & 11 bw plates. A history of the silversmith's art in Great Britain and Ireland with reproductions in facsimile of about thirteen thousand marks. Tables Of date letters and other marks. American silversmiths and their marks. Paris marks and Paris date letters with a descriptions of the methods of marking employed the Paris Guild of Silversmiths. Hallmarks, and date letters when used, of nearly all the countries of Continental Europe reproduced in facsimile. a history of Old Sheffield Plat and a description of the method of its production, with the names and marks, in facsimile, of every known maker. Good. ex-libris w/ stamp to cover pastedown. covers highly scuffed & scratched; wear to to edges; spine tanned w/ ends rubbed. pgs light to moderately tanned w/ foxing & occasional smudges; plates foxed.
Keywords: ; Old Silver and Sheffield Plate ; ;
Price: US$ 55.00 Seller: Kevin Mullen, Bookseller
- Book number: 177342
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