Antique Silver And Silver Collecting

Download or read book Silver written by Joel Langford and published by . This book was released on 1991 with total page 128 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book The Book of Old Silver: English, American, Foreign written by Seymour B. Weyler and published by . This book was released on 1973 with total page 447 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Sterling Silver Flatware for Dining Elegance written by Richard F. Osterberg and published by Schiffer Publishing. This book was released on 1994 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this richly illustrated book, Richard Osterberg provides a thorough look at the sterling silver utensils which have entranced collectors throughout the years. The perfect complement to the crisp linen, fine china, and elegant crystal of a well-set dining table, sterling silver flatware by many of the most renowned makers and in the loveliest of patterns is pictured here. While sterling silver patterns can be simple or elaborate, this book makes clear that all of them are beautiful. From delicate berry spoons to poultry shears, bouillon ladles, and carving sets, individual place settings and serving pieces are organized in chapters to make matching your pieces an easy task. A newly updated price guide and helpful research charts are included for use with your own collection.

Download or read book Contemporary Silver written by Benton Seymour Rabinovitch and published by . This book was released on 2000 with total page 168 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Taking as their brief the design of a simple fish server or cake slice, the British and American silversmiths whose work is represented in the collection of Benton Seymour Rabinovitch have produced a range of variations on a single theme. From the minimal simplicity of the purely functional to the lavish ostentation of the truly baroque, these pieces utilize elements of sea life, Scandinavian design, Florida Art Deco, eighteenth-century Rococo and totemic, timeless symbols of the natural world to forceful effect. Whether entirely abstract or startlingly representative, what these pieces have in common is the immense technical mastery that has gone into their design and construction - as well as the fact that, no matter how fantastic their appearance, they are all meant for practical use." "Each piece in the collection is illustrated in colour with a specially commissioned photograph and accompanied by an account of the work's conception. Personal accounts of the artists' guiding aesthetic and technical principles provide a long-needed, unique and authoritative window into current design practice both in Britain and the United States." "The authors provide a step-by-step guide to commissioning one's own pieces, as well as a design-historical context to the last fifty years of the craft. Designers and makers, curators and collectors, craft writers and historians, as well as anyone interested in the beautiful, will find in the volume a fund of information and inspiration."--BOOK JACKET.Title Summary field provided by Blackwell North America, Inc. All Rights Reserved

Download or read book Yesterday's Silver for Today's Table written by Richard Osterberg and published by Schiffer Pub Limited. This book was released on 2001 with total page 256 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A colorful and useful tour of fine antique silver, covering patterns, forms, and functions. With color photos it explores the sterling flatware serving pieces and place settings, giving essential information to the collector. Also, the silver flatware is coupled with linen, china, and crystal to make beautiful place settings that will inspire the modern host and hostess. Throughout the text value ranges are given, making it easy to look up prices of antique silver.

Download or read book Kovels' American Silver Marks written by Ralph M. Kovel and published by Random House Reference. This book was released on 1989 with total page 440 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Lists monograms and identifying marks used by more than ten thousand American silversmiths from 1650 to the present.

Download or read book Antique silver and silver collecting written by John Culme and published by . This book was released on 1973 with total page 96 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: