Old silver and old Sheffield plate
Subtitle: 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 description of the methods of marking employed by 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 plate and a description of the method of its production, with the names and marks, in facsimile, of every known maker
By: With twelve full-page illustrations. By Howard Pitcher Okie
Publisher: Doubleday, Doran
Published: 1938
Place of publication: Garden City, N.Y
Language: eng
Number of pages: 420
Subjects: Silverwork; Sheffield plate; Hallmarks
Description: 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 description of the methods of marking employed by the Paris guild of silversmiths. Hallmarks, and date letters when used, of nearly all the countries of continental Europe, reproduced in facsimile.
Notes: First edition published 1928.