This visual reference has all the information readers need to identify and appraise American silver and pewter--from Colonial times to the present. Each of the 450 pieces is photographed in color and accompanied by a detailed description of the piece, origin, date, and other pertinent information.
"Silversmiths to the Nation: Thomas Fletcher and Sidney Gardiner, 1808-1842" presents the first in-depth study of the celebrated silversmiths and their magnificent work. The firm these men established in Boston (1808-11) and Philadelphia (1811-42) revolutionised the significance of silver in America as a medium of public appreciation and ...
A richly-illustrated catalog featuring the best of the museum's collection, according to its own curators. Arranged by category (metalwork, glass, ceramics, furniture,textiles and embroidery, paintings and prints, books and manuscripts), with short introductory essays and detailed information on each object illustrated.
Iron at Winterthur, a catalogue of the extensive but unpublished collection at the museum, will fill an oft-neglected niche in the field of decorative arts - that of the history and use of iron in the everyday life of seventeenth-, eighteenth-, and nineteenth-century America. With essays and entries on approximately three hundred cast, wrought, ...
Description: 1984, stated 1st printing, stiff pictorial wrappers, high quality, color and black and white illustrations, fine crisp bright copy with fine dust jacket, 4-1/4"x8-1/2", 479 pages. acxx. read more
Description: NY, Knopf, 1984, stated 1st printing, nice quality, stiff pictorial wrappers, crisp fine dust jacket, color and black and white ills., nice quality, 479 pages, 4-1/4"x8-5/8". acxx. read more
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Antique Trader Metalwares Price Guide: Including Silver, Aluminum, Brass, Chrome, Copper, Pewter & More
