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• • • British Marks

Hall Marks on Gold and Silver Plate: Illustrated with Revised Tables... William Chaffers & Christopher Alexander Markham - published by Reeves and Turner, London 1905 299 pages, profusely illustrated Gilda Aurifabrorum: A History of English Goldsmiths and Plateworkers, and Their Marks William Chaffers - published by Reeves and Turner, London 1899 267 pages, 2500 illustrations Old London Silver: Its History, Its Makers and Its Marks Montague Howard - published by B. T. Batsford, London & Scribner's, New York - 1903 405 pages, over 4,000 facsimiles of makers' marks & hallmarks

• European Marks

Der Goldschmiede Merkzeichen (Goldsmith's Marks) Dr. Marc Rosenberg - published by Heinrich Keller, Frankfurt Am Main 1890 illustrated encyclopedia of 2000 European silversmiths' and goldsmiths' master marks and hallmarks, text in German Old French Plate; Its Makers and Marks Wilfred Joseph Cripps - published by John Murray, London 1893 113 pages, many illustrations Die Breslauer Goldschmiede (Breslau Goldsmiths) Erwin Hintze - published by K.W. Hiersemann, Leipzig, 1906 215 pages, Breslau silverwork illustrated, makers' marks described, text in German Hand Book to Foreign Hall Marks on Gold and Silver Plate Christopher Alexander Markham, F.S.A. - published by Gibbings & Co., London, 1898 102 pages, with 163 silver marks

• Tribal Silver

L'Orfévrerie Algérienne et Tunisienne (Algerian & Tunisian Goldsmithing) Paul Eudel - published by A. Jourdan, Alger 1902 544 pages, North African silver & goldwork illustrated, some marks illustrated, text in French Dictionnaire des Bijoux de l'Afrique du Nord: Maroc, Algárie, Tunisie, Tripolitaine (Dictionary of North African Jewelry: Morocco, Algeria, Tunisia, Tripoli) Paul Eudel - published by Ernest Leroux, Paris 1906 242 pages, A-Z dictionary of North African silver & goldwork profusely illustrated, text in French

• Silver Collections

American Silver of the XVII & XVIII Centuries: A Study Based on the Clearwater Collection Alphonso T. Clearwater, Clara Louise Avery - published by The Metropolitan Museum of Art, N. Y. 1920 216 pages, many illustrations, a fine survey of Early American Silver The Old Royal Plate in the Tower of London E. Alfred Jones - published by Fox, Jones & Co., Oxford 1908 78 pages, mostly illustrations including the marks College and Corporation Plate: A Handbook to the Reproductions of Silver Plate in the South Kensington Museum Wilfred Joseph Cripps, Victoria and Albert Museum, South Kensington Museum - published by Chapman and Hall, London 1881 155 pages of illustrations of outstanding historical pieces reproduced in electroform in the South Kensington Museum The 1899 Trade Catalogue of the Goldsmiths and Silversmiths Company Goldsmiths and Silversmiths Company London 1899 326 pages of illustrations, a treasure trove of late Victorian flatware, holloware & novelties, great for identifying some of the more obscure Victorian items.

• Silverplate

Sheffield Plate, Its History, Manufacture and Art: With Makers' Names and Marks Henry Newton Veitch - published by George Bell & Sons, London, 1908 359 pages, with many silverplaters' marks Old Sheffield Plate: Its Technique and History as Illustrated in a Single Private Collection Julia Whittemore Torrey - published by Houghton Mifflin Company, Boston & New York, 1918 90 pages, many illustrations with some silverplaters' marks

• Pewter

Alte Zinn (Old Pewter) Karl Berling - published by R.C. Schmidt & Co., Berlin 1919 245 pages, 142 illustrations Old Pewter, Brass, Copper & Sheffield Plate: Brass, Copper & Sheffield Plate N. Hudson Moore - published by Garden City Publishing Company, NY 1905 245 pages, 142 illustrations

• Personages

The Fruits of Experience, Or, Memoir of Joseph Brasbridge Joseph Brasbridge (London silversmith) - published by the author, London 1824 257 pages Sir Edward Thomason's Memoirs During Half a Century Sir Edward Thomason - published by Longman, Brown, Green, and Longmans, London 1845 364 pages

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