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 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, 2nd 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 |
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. |