Education

Silver

<< prev categorynext category >>

American Sliver at Winterthur
Ian M. G. Quimby
Winterthur Publishing, 1995 

American Silver Flatware: 1837-1910
Noel D. Turner
Alan Wofsy Fine Arts, 1972, 1998

Antique Silver Servers for the Dining Table
Benton Seymour Rabinovitch
Joslin Hall Publishing, 1991 

The Book of Old Silver
Seymour B. Wyler
Crown Publishers, 1937 

Church Silver of Colonial Virginia
Virginia Museum
Self Published, 1970

Early Connecticut Silver, 1700-1840
Peter Bohan & Philip Hammerslough
Wesleyan University Press, 1970 

Elegant Plate: Three Centuries of Precious Metals in New York City, Vol. I & II
Deborah Dependahl Waters
Museum of the City of New York, 2000 

Encyclopedia of American Silver Manufacturers
Revised 4th edition
Dorothy T. Rainwater and Judy Redfield
Schiffer Publishing Ltd., 1998
A very good resource.

English Goldsmiths and Their Marks: A History of the Goldsmiths and Plate Workers of England, Scotland, and Ireland
Sir Charles Jackson
Dover Publications, 1921, 1964 

English Silver at Williamsburg
John D. Davis
The Colonial Williamsburg Foundation, 1976 

Figural Napkin Rings: Collector's Identification and Value Guide
Lillian Gottschalk and Sandra Whitson
Collector Books, 1996

Gorham Silver: 1831-1981
Charles H. Carpenter, Jr.
Dodd, Mead, & Company, 1982 

An Illustrated Dictionary of Silverware
Harold Newman
Thames & Hudson, 1987, 2000 

International Hallmarks on Silver Collected by Tardy
Tardy
Self Published, 1985, 2000 

Jewelers' Circular Keystone Sterling Flatware Pattern Index
2nd edition, Revised
Kathleen Ellis, ed.
Chilton Company, 1995
Everything you need to know about sterling patterns.

Joseph Richardson and Family: Philadelphia Silversmiths
Martha Gandy Fales
Wesleyan University Press, 1974 

Kovels’ American Silver Marks: 1650 to the Present
Ralph & Terry Kovel
Crown Publishers, 1961, 1989
Very good resource, but it should be supplemented with regional studies of silversmiths.

Manufacturers’ Marks on American Coin Silver
John R. McGrew
Argyros Publications, 2004 

Old Silver and Old Sheffield Plate
Howard Pitcher Okie
Doubleday and Company, 1928 

Russian Silver
Andrei Gilodo
Moscow, 1994 

Silver in American Life: Selections from the Mabel Brady Garvan and Other Collections at Yale University
Barbara McLean Ward & Gerald W.R. Ward
Yale University Art Gallery & The American Federation of Arts, 1979 

Silver in Maryland
Jennifer Faulds Goldsborough
Maryland Historical Society, 1984 

Silversmiths of North Carolina 1696-1860
George Barton Cutten
Self Published, 1984 

Silversmiths of Virginia
George Barton Cutten
Dietz Press, 1952 

Silversmiths to the Nation, Thomas Fletcher & Sidney Gardiner: 1808-1842
Donald L. Fennimore & Ann K. Wagner
Antique Collectors’ Club, 2007 

South Carolina Silversmiths 1690-1860
E. Milby Burton
The Oglethorpe Press, 1968, 1985 

Starting to Collect Silver
John Luddington
Antique Collectors’ Club, 1984 

Sterling Flatware Pattern Index, 2^nd Edition
Kathleen Ellis
Jewelers’ Circular Keystone, 1970, 1995 

Sterling Silver Flatware for Dining Elegance
Richard Osterbert
Schiffer Publishing, 1994 

Tennessee Silversmiths
Benjamin Hubbard Caldwell, Jr.
MESDA, 1988 

Tiffany Silver Flatware: 1845-1905
William P. Hood, Jr. with Roslyn Berlin & Edward Wawrynek
Antique Collectors’ Club, 1999 

Tiffany Silver
Charles H. Carpenter, Jr. with Mary Grace Carpenter
Dodd, Mead, & Company, 1978, 1984

Understanding Antique Silver Plate
Stephen J. Helliwell
Antique Collectors’ Club, 1996, 1997, 2000 

  (back to index)   (back to top)