Silver and Metalwork
Antique Silver Monograms and Whether to Remove Them
You have found a lovely Georgian teaspoon or a Victorian salver at a fair, and right in the middle sits someone else's...
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Hallmarks, polishing methods and safe long-term storage, with worked examples from sterling and Sheffield plate.
Silver and Metalwork
You have found a lovely Georgian teaspoon or a Victorian salver at a fair, and right in the middle sits someone else's...
Silver and Metalwork
You have a heavy old spoon, a small tray or a pair of napkin rings, and you want to know whether it is solid silver before you...
Silver and Metalwork
You polished the Georgian teapot for the holidays, put it back in the sideboard, and by spring it had gone golden brown again.
Silver and Metalwork
Turn over a German cake fork or an Italian bonbon dish and you will often find a tiny "800" stamped beside a crescent moon or a...
Silver and Metalwork
A pair of candlesticks turns up at a country sale, catalogued simply as "Sheffield plate, c.1800".
Silver and Metalwork
A dealer friend of mine has a habit that looks faintly ridiculous to anyone watching for the first time.