Author: Philippa Glanville
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1136611703
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 400
Book Description
First Published in 2005. Silver is unique among the decorative arts in that its raw material is both inherently valuable and infinitely reusable. Its ownership has been a social bench-mark and its form has exercised the skills of sculptors, designers, chasers and engravers, but ultimately it could be, and normally was, melted down and refashioned quite without sentiment. Because of this constant recycling, the survival of any individual object is quite random and unrelated to its uniqueness or otherwise in its period. Hitherto plate historians have focused on individual objects almost to the exclusion of the context - social or economic - from which they came but now that context is seen as crucial in understanding historic plate. So in the first section of this book each chapter considers contemporary attitudes and usage.
Silver in England
Author: Philippa Glanville
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1136611703
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 400
Book Description
First Published in 2005. Silver is unique among the decorative arts in that its raw material is both inherently valuable and infinitely reusable. Its ownership has been a social bench-mark and its form has exercised the skills of sculptors, designers, chasers and engravers, but ultimately it could be, and normally was, melted down and refashioned quite without sentiment. Because of this constant recycling, the survival of any individual object is quite random and unrelated to its uniqueness or otherwise in its period. Hitherto plate historians have focused on individual objects almost to the exclusion of the context - social or economic - from which they came but now that context is seen as crucial in understanding historic plate. So in the first section of this book each chapter considers contemporary attitudes and usage.
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1136611703
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 400
Book Description
First Published in 2005. Silver is unique among the decorative arts in that its raw material is both inherently valuable and infinitely reusable. Its ownership has been a social bench-mark and its form has exercised the skills of sculptors, designers, chasers and engravers, but ultimately it could be, and normally was, melted down and refashioned quite without sentiment. Because of this constant recycling, the survival of any individual object is quite random and unrelated to its uniqueness or otherwise in its period. Hitherto plate historians have focused on individual objects almost to the exclusion of the context - social or economic - from which they came but now that context is seen as crucial in understanding historic plate. So in the first section of this book each chapter considers contemporary attitudes and usage.
Jackson's Silver & Gold Marks of England, Scotland & Ireland
Author: Ian Pickford
Publisher: Antique Collectors Club Dist
ISBN: 9780907462637
Category : Antiques & Collectibles
Languages : en
Pages : 766
Book Description
A revised edition of Sir Charles Jackson's classic English Goldsmiths and their Marks with more than 10000 corrections and additions.
Publisher: Antique Collectors Club Dist
ISBN: 9780907462637
Category : Antiques & Collectibles
Languages : en
Pages : 766
Book Description
A revised edition of Sir Charles Jackson's classic English Goldsmiths and their Marks with more than 10000 corrections and additions.
Silver in England
Author: John Davis
Publisher:
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Category : Coinage
Languages : en
Pages : 24
Book Description
Publisher:
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Category : Coinage
Languages : en
Pages : 24
Book Description
A View of the Silver coin and coinage of England
Author: Thomas Snelling
Publisher:
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Languages : en
Pages : 96
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Publisher:
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Languages : en
Pages : 96
Book Description
The Silver Coins of England
Author: Edward Hawkins
Publisher:
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Category : Coins, English
Languages : en
Pages : 428
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Coins, English
Languages : en
Pages : 428
Book Description
The Gold, Silver, and Copper Coins of England
Author: Henry Noel Humphreys
Publisher:
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Category : Coinage
Languages : en
Pages : 214
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Coinage
Languages : en
Pages : 214
Book Description
The Silver Coins of England
Author: Edward Hawkins
Publisher:
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Category : Coins, British
Languages : en
Pages : 632
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Coins, British
Languages : en
Pages : 632
Book Description
The Silver Coins of England Arranged and Described with Remarks on British Money, Previous to the Saxon Dynasties. By Edward Hawkins. ...
Author: Edward Hawkins
Publisher:
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Category : Numismatics
Languages : en
Pages : 416
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Numismatics
Languages : en
Pages : 416
Book Description
A View of the Silver Coin and Coinage of England
Author: Thomas Snelling
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Coinage
Languages : en
Pages : 444
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Coinage
Languages : en
Pages : 444
Book Description