Author: Pleasants, J. Hall and Howard Sill
Title: Maryland Silversmiths, 1715-1830: With Illustrations of Their Silver and Their Marks and with a Facsimile of the Design Book of William Farris
Description: Baltimore, Maryland, J. Hall Pleasants, 1930. Hardcover. Gray paper boards with black cloth spine, gilt letters on spine, 324 pp. 67 full-page bw plates. A tremendous resource to have at one's fingertips, with many full-page illustrations and additional reproductions of dozens of silversmiths' marks. The historical narrative covers makers; marks; operations of the Baltimore Assay Office; silversmiths in Annapolis, Baltimore, on the eastern shore, in western Maryland, and in the counties of Harford, Charles, and St. Mary's; watch and clock makers, apprentices, indentured immigrant silversmiths, and the work of William Faris of Annapolis. Hand-number #27 out of 300 copies. VG- (bookplate inside front cover, sticker removed from spine; binding is soiled in spots.) .

Keywords: American Decorative Arts ; American Silversmiths ; Maryland Silversmiths ; ; Fine Metalwork - American


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