English Goldsmiths and Their Marks ; A History of the Goldsmiths and Plate Workers of England, Scotland, and Ireland; With Over Thirteen Thousand Marks Reproduced in Facsimile From Authentic Examples of Plate and Tables of Date-Letters and Other Hall-Marks Used in the Assay Offices of the United Kingdom

Jackson, Charles James, Sir

Edité par Macmillan and Co. Limited, London, 1921

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Folio in green polished cloth with gilt titles; xvi, 747 pages: frontispiece, illustrations; 31 cm. Weight: 7 lbs (3.18 Kg). Top edge gilt. Contents: Ch. 1. Introductory; Early English, Scottish, and Irish goldsmiths; Natural properties of gold and silver; Alloys, their use; Weights used by English goldsmiths, ancient and modern -- Ch. 2. Legislation concerning goldsmiths; The statutes from A.D. 1238 to A.D. 1904, chronologically arranged; Legislation mainly directed to the prevention of the use of too much alloy; The hall-marking of foreign plate -- Ch. 3. The standards for gold and silver wares; Meaning of "Sterling"; Its derivation; The standards for gold and silver money and wares compared and tabulated chronologically -- Ch. 4. The assay; Various methods of assaying; By the "touchstone"; By crucible; The "wet process" of assaying silver; The "diet" -- Ch. 5. The London goldsmiths; Their history; Their charter from King Edward III (1327); Their dispute with the cutlers in 1404 decided in favour of the goldsmiths; Subsequent charters from Henry IV and Edward IV; Ordinances of the London Goldsmiths' Company; Celebrated London goldsmiths -- Ch. 6 The marks found on London plate -- Devised to prevent fraud, they incidentally determine the date of manufacture -- The leopard's head, its various form desceibed in chronological order -- The worker's or maker's mark -- The date letter -- The lion-passant -- the lion's head erased and figure of Britannia -- The sovereign's head -- Ch. 7. Tables of marks on London plate and wrought gold, from about 1400 to 1478 and from 1479 to 1920, arranged in cycles chronologically -- Ch. 8. Chronological list of goldsmith's marks found on plate assayed at Goldsmiths' Hall, London, from A.D. 1479 to A.D. 1919 -- Ch. 9. Chronological list of names of London goldsmiths from A.D. 1090 to A.D. 1850 -- Ch. 10. The English provincial goldsmiths -- Their guides and assay-offices -- Ch. 11. The York goldsmiths from the 15th century -- The York town-mark described -- Its successive forms -- The date-letter -- The maker's mark -- Tables of marks on York plate arranged in cycles chronologically from 1559 to 1856 -- List of names of York goldsmiths from A.D. 1313 to 1851 arranged chronologically Ch. 12. The Norwich goldsmiths -- The excellence of their work -- Records concerning their guild from 1564 -- Their connection with Dtuch goldsmiths -- Marks found on Norwich-made plate described -- Tables of marks on Norwich-made plate described -- Tables of marks on Norwich plate arranged in cycles chronologically from 1565 to 1697 -- List of names of Norwich goldsmiths from 1285 to 1735 arranged chronologically -- Ch. 13. The Exeter goldsmiths -- The antiquity of their guidl -- Much Exeter-made plate of the 16th, 17th, and 18th centuries still extant -- Exeter marks described -- Parliamentary inquiry in 1773 as to methods of conducting assay office -- Office closed in 1883 -- Tables of marks on Exeter plate arranged in cycles from 1544 to 1883 -- Supplementary list of makers' marks -- List of names of Exeter goldsmiths from 1327 to 1883 arranged chronologically -- Ch. 14. The Newcastle goldsmiths -- Their history -- Their incorporation with other trades -- Their assay office closed 1697, re-established 1702 -- Their marks described -- Tables of marks on Newcastle plate arranged in cycles from about 1658 to 1884, when assay office finally closed -- Supplementary list of makers' marks -- List of names of Newcastle goldsmiths from 1536 to 1884 arranged chronologically -- Ch. 15. The Chester goldsmiths -- Their antiquity -- Their records from the 16th century onwards -- Disappearance of early Chester-made plate accounted for -- Re-establishment of assay office in 1701 after temporary closure -- Parliamentary inquiry in 1773 -- Marks found on Chester-made plate described -- Tables of marks arranged in cycles from 1668 to 1921 -- List of names of Chester goldsmiths and other manufacturers registered at Chester from 1225.

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• Titre: English Goldsmiths and Their Marks ; A History of the Goldsmiths and Plate Workers of England, Scotland, and Ireland; With Over Thirteen Thousand Marks Reproduced in Facsimile From Authentic Examples of Plate and Tables of Date-Letters and Other Hall-Marks Used in the Assay Offices of the United Kingdom
• Éditeur: Macmillan and Co. Limited, London
• Date de parution: 1921
• Reliure: Hardcover
• Édition: 2d ed., rev. and enl.
• État de l'article: near fine(+)
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