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

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

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

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

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Church Silver of Colonial Virginia
Virginia Museum
Self Published, 1970

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

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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 

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

A very good resource. 

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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 

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

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

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

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

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

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Jewelers' Circular Keystone Sterling Flatware Pattern Index
2nd edition, Revised
Kathleen Ellis, ed.
Chilton Company, 1995

Everything you need to know about sterling patterns.

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

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Kovels’ American Silver Marks: 1650 to the Present
Ralph & Terry Kovel
Crown Publishers, 1961, 1989

Very good resource, but should be supplemented with regional studies of silversmiths. 

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

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

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Russian Silver
Andrei Gilodo
Moscow, 1994 

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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 

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Silver in Maryland
Jennifer Faulds Goldsborough
Maryland Historical Society, 1984 

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

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Silversmiths of Virginia
George Barton Cutten
Dietz Press, 1952 

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

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

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

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

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

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Tennessee Silversmiths
Benjamin Hubbard Caldwell, Jr.
MESDA, 1988 

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

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

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

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Virginia Silversmiths, Jewelers, Clock- and Watchmakers, 1607-1860, Their Lives and Marks
Catherine B. Hollan
Hollan Press, 2010

Assembled from more than 30 years of research, Catherine Hollan has produced the most comprehensive and encyclopedic volume within the field of Southern silver.

Comprising 1,798 biographies and more than 930 photographs of the marks of 324 Virginia silversmiths, this 1,092 page tome takes its place among the most ambitious and successful studies of regional American decorative arts ever written.   

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