Wednesday, December 2nd, 2009
ANTIQUE SILVER TANKARDS AND MUGS
Up to the end of the seventeenth century covered tankards and porringers are, I suppose, the two most commonly found pieces of silver. The increasing sophistication of the eighteenth century introduced an ever wider range of table silver together with ali the apparatus for the recently introduced tea, coffee and chocolate. [...]
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Thursday, October 22nd, 2009
SILVER MIRRORS
Silver mirrors date mostly from the late seventeenth century. Originally they formed part of a toilet service, but are now usually found by themselves, as the first thing most dealers used to do when they bought a complete service was to split it up to make it more easily saleable. Antique silver mirrors are, [...]
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