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Old silver and old Sheffield plate : 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 decription of the method of its production, with the names and marks, in facsimile, of every known maker / by Howard Pitcher Okie.

Collection Type

  • Books and periodicals

GUSN

GUSN-152312

Description

420 p., <12> leaves of plates : ill. ; 26 cm.

Details

Descriptive Terms

Silverwork
Sheffield plate.
Hallmarks.

Originator

Okie, Howard Pitcher.

Publication

Garden City, N.Y. : Doubleday & Co.

Description

420 p., <12> leaves of plates : ill. ; 26 cm.

Notes

Includes index.
Bertram K. and Nina F. Little Library.

Call Number

Little NK7210.B74

Places

Great Britain.
United States.

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