Silver and Metalwork
Reading Hallmarks on Old Silver
Pick up a piece of old English silver and turn it over, and you will usually find a row of tiny stamped symbols hidden along an...
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Hallmarks, polishing methods and safe long-term storage, with worked examples from sterling and Sheffield plate.
Silver and Metalwork
Pick up a piece of old English silver and turn it over, and you will usually find a row of tiny stamped symbols hidden along an...
Silver and Metalwork
The Victorian sporting revival produced a category of silverware that is distinctive, plentiful, and still relatively...
Silver and Metalwork
My mother taught me to read hallmarks before she taught me to read cursive, which is a slight exaggeration but not by much.
Silver and Metalwork
I once ruined a piece of Victorian silver by cleaning it.
Silver and Metalwork
Antique gold jewellery occupies a rewarding place in collecting because it combines intrinsic metal value with craftsmanship...
Silver and Metalwork
Silver is one of the few antique materials where a small stamp can settle almost everything.