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Reference Books on American Silver
| 1210-66 | Kathryn C. Buhler. Masterpieces of American Silver depicting an Exhibition held at the Virginia Museum of Fine Arts in Richmond 15 January to 14 February 1960. Spiral bound paper covered 99 page catalog featuring 337 entries and 100 small illustrations. 7.75" high, 10.75" wide. | $ 25. |
| 1431-73 | Philip H. Hammerslough. American Silver Collected by Philip H. Hammerslough Volume II (Hartford CT, 1960). #290 of a Limited Edition of 300. A classic reference of 88 entries and illustrations of 18th and 19th century pre-Civil War American silverware including many unusual and rare forms. 1970 signed presentation. 10.38 high, 7.88" wide. | $125. |
| 1431-74 | Philip H. Hammerslough & Rita F. Feigenbaum. American Silver Collected by Philip H. Hammerslough Volume IV (Hartford CT, 1973). Restricted to a Limited Edition of 350. A classic reference of 136 entries and illustrations of 18th and 19th century pre-Civil War American silverware including many unusual and rare forms. 10.38 high, 7.88" wide. | $ 125. |
| 1431-78 | Richard Osterberg. Sterling Silverware for Dining Elegance (Schiffer Publishing Co.: Atglen PA, 1994. Dust jacketed hardcover with 204 pages profusely illustrated with various examples of place and serving flatware c.1850-1950. 11.38" high, 8.75" wide. | $ 25. |
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J. Hall Pleasants and Howard Sill. Maryland Silversmiths 1715-1830 With Illustrations of Their Silver and Their Marks and with a Facsimile of the Design Book of William Faris (Robert Allen Green: Shawnee NY 1972). The dust jacketed hardcover second edition with 324 pages, 67 plates, and numerous illustrations of marks was limited to 1000 copies. The original 1930 edition was one of the pioneering regional titles and was limited to 300 copies. 11.25" high, 8.75" wide. | $ 115./ea |
| 1431-77 | David B. Warren, Katherine S. Howe, and Michael K. Brown with an introduction by Gerald W. R. Ward. Marks of Achievement: Four Centuries of American Presentation (The Museum of Fine Arts, Houston in association with Harry N. Abrams, New York 1987). 208 pages with 231 illustrated entries in a nice hardcover exhibition catalog with dust jacket. 11.75" high, 9.38" wide. | $ 40. |
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Reference Books on Global and Foreign Silver
| 1431-75 | Claude Blair (General Editor) with contributions by Kenneth Painter, Ronald Lightbown, Timothy Schroder, Anna Somers Cocks, Elaine Barr, Shirley Bury, Philippe Garner, Graham Hughes, and John Forbes. The History of Silver (Ballantine Books: New York 1987). Nine chapters by different authorities spanning "The Ancient World" to "Contemporary Silver"; 256 pages with 300 photographs (100 in color). Dust jacket. Good overview of silver though the ages. 11.75" high, 9.38" wide. | $ 30. |
| 1431-72 | Lucinda Fletcher. Crescent Connoisseur's Library: Silver (Crescent Books: New York 1973). Dust jacketed hardcover with 103 color photographic plates on 64 pages. Ex-lib. 12.12" high, 9.12" wide. | $ 10. |
| 1125-62 | J. F. Hayward. Virtuoso Goldsmiths and the Triumph of Mannerism 1540-1620 (Rizzoli International Sotheby Parke Bernet: New York 1976).Large dust jacketed hardcover book of 748 pages with 24 color plates and 740 monochrome illustrations. 13.25" high, 10.0" wide. | $ 150. |
| 1431-76 | David Revere McFadden (essays) and Mark A. Clark (entries). Treasures for the Table: Silver from the Chrysler Museum (American Federation of the Arts and the Chrysler Museum with the Hudson Hills Press: New York NY, 1989). Dust jacketed hardcover exhibition catalog of 117 pages with 79 illustrated entries. 12.25" high, 9.38" wide. | $ 20. |
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Charles Truman. The Gilbert Collection of Gold Boxes (Los Angeles County Museum of Art:1991). Hard cover catalog of 432 pages featuring 148 entries with multiple color illustrations as well as black and white illustrations of marks. 12" high, 9.5" wide. | $ 50./ea |
| 1431-71 | Seymour B. Wyler. Old Silver: English American Foreign (Crown Publishers: New York 1937). A much used fourth edition (1948?) with tattered dust jacket, the 447 pages with 100 photographic illustrations of silverware and more than 20,000 illustrations of hallmarks; a good overview of marks collected from more specialized works, it is still useful as a general purpose marks book. 10.25" high, 7.88" wide. | $ 8. |
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| 1125-53 | T. P. Camerer Cuss. The Camerer Cuss Book of Antique Watches (Antique Collectors' Club: Woodbridge, Suffolk 1976). The 1996 reprint of the T. A. Camerer Cuss dust jacketed hardcover revised second edition of 332 pages with 374 black and white illustrations, 8 color plates, and 17 line drawings. 11.0" high, 8.88" wide. | $ 60. |
| 1425-05 | Ronald F. Michaelis. Old Domestic Base-Metal Candlesticks From the 13th to 19th Century Produced in Bronze, Brass, Paktong and Pewter (Antique Collectors' Club: Woodbridge, Suffolk 1978). Dust jacketed hardcover with 139 pages and 202 illustrations. 11.25" high, 8.62" wide. | $ 25. |
| 1425-07 | Department of American Decorative Arts & Sculpture with photographs by Daniel Farber. American Pewter in the Museum of Fine Arts Boston (Museum of Fine Arts Arts, Boston distributed by New York Graphic Society: Greenwich CT1974). Dust jacketed hardcover catalog of 119 pages with 151 illustrated entries plus photographs of marks. 11.38" high, 8.75" wide. | $ 30. |
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