English Goldsmiths and Their Marks ; A History of the Goldsmiths and Plate Workers of England, Scotland, and Ireland; With Over Thirteen Thousand Marks Reproduced in Facsimile From Authentic Examples of Plate and Tables of Date-Letters and Other Hall-Marks Used in the Assay Offices of the United Kingdom by Jackson, Charles James, Sir - 1921

London: Macmillan and Co. Limited, 1921. 2d ed., rev. and enl. Hardcover. A remarkably tight and clean near fine(+) copy with gentle edge-wear to boards. Please see photos.. Folio in green polished cloth with gilt titles; xvi, 747 pages : frontispiece, illustrations ; 31 cm. Weight: 7 lbs (3.18 Kg). Top edge gilt. Contents: Ch. 1. Introductory ; Early English, Scottish, and Irish goldsmiths ; Natural properties of gold and silver ; Alloys, their use ; Weights used by English goldsmiths, ancient and modern -- Ch. 2. Legislation concerning goldsmiths ; The statutes from A.D. 1238 to A.D. 1904, chronologically arranged ; Legislation mainly directed to the prevention of the use of too much alloy ; The hall-marking of foreign plate -- Ch. 3. The standards for gold and silver wares ; Meaning of "Sterling" ; Its derivation ; The standards for gold and silver money and wares compared and tabulated chronologically -- Ch. 4. The assay ; Various methods of assaying ; By the "touchstone" ; By crucible ; The "wet process" of assaying silver ; The "diet" -- Ch. 5. The London goldsmiths ; Their history ; Their charter from King Edward III (1327) ; Their dispute with the cutlers in 1404 decided in favour of the goldsmiths ; Subsequent charters from Henry IV and Edward IV ; Ordinances of the London Goldsmiths' Company ; Celebrated London goldsmiths -- Ch. 6 The marks found on London plate -- Devised to prevent fraud, they incidentally determine the date of manufacture -- The leopard's head, its various form desceibed in chronological order -- The worker's or maker's mark -- The date letter -- The lion-passant -- the lion's head erased and figure of Britannia -- The sovereign's head -- Ch. 7. Tables of marks on London plate and wrought gold, from about 1400 to 1478 and from 1479 to 1920, arranged in cycles chronologically -- Ch. 8. Chronological list of goldsmith's marks found on plate assayed at Goldsmiths' Hall, London, from A.D. 1479 to A.D. 1919 -- Ch. 9. Chronological list of names of London goldsmiths from A.D. 1090 to A.D. 1850 -- Ch. 10. The English provincial goldsmiths -- Their guides and assay-offices -- Ch. 11. The York goldsmiths from the 15th century -- The York town-mark described -- Its successive forms -- The date-letter -- The maker's mark -- Tables of marks on York plate arranged in cycles chronologically from 1559 to 1856 -- List of names of York goldsmiths from A.D. 1313 to 1851 arranged chronologically Ch. 12. The Norwich goldsmiths -- The excellence of their work -- Records concerning their guild from 1564 -- Their connection with Dtuch goldsmiths -- Marks found on Norwich-made plate described -- Tables of marks on Norwich-made plate described -- Tables of marks on Norwich plate arranged in cycles chronologically from 1565 to 1697 -- List of names of Norwich goldsmiths from 1285 to 1735 arranged chronologically -- Ch. 13. The Exeter goldsmiths -- The antiquity of their guidl -- Much Exeter-made plate of the 16th, 17th, and 18th centuries still extant -- Exeter marks described -- Parliamentary inquiry in 1773 as to methods of conducting assay office -- Office closed in 1883 -- Tables of marks on Exeter plate arranged in cycles from 1544 to 1883 -- Supplementary list of makers' marks -- List of names of Exeter goldsmiths from 1327 to 1883 arranged chronologically -- Ch. 14. The Newcastle goldsmiths -- Their history -- Their incorporation with other trades -- Their assay office closed 1697, re-established 1702 -- Their marks described -- Tables of marks on Newcastle plate arranged in cycles from about 1658 to 1884, when assay office finally closed -- Supplementary list of makers' marks -- List of names of Newcastle goldsmiths from 1536 to 1884 arranged chronologically -- Ch. 15. The Chester goldsmiths -- Their antiquity -- Their records from the 16th century onwards -- Disappearance of early Chester-made plate accounted for -- Re-establishment of assay office in 1701 after temporary closure -- Parliamentary inquiry in 1773 -- Marks found on Chester-made plate described -- Tables of marks arranged in cycles from 1668 to 1921 -- List of names of Chester goldsmiths and other manufacturers registered at Chester from 1225 to 1879 arranged chronologically -- Ch. 16. The Birmingham goldsmiths and their marks from the establishment of their assay office in 1773 -- Tables of marks arranged in cycles from 1773 to 1921 -- Supplementary list of makers' marks -- List of names of goldsmiths entered at the Birmingham assay office arranged chronologically from 1773 to 1850 -- Ch. 17. The Sheffield silversmiths and their marks from the establishment of their assay office in 1773 -- Tables of marks on Sheffield silver wares arranged in cycles from 1773 to to 1921 -- Supplementary list of makers' marks -- List of names of silversmiths entered at the Sheffield assay office arranged chronologically from 1773 to 1890 Ch. 18. English provincial goldsmiths of the minor guilds -- Hull, Lincoln, Shrewsbury, Lewes, Rochester, Sandwich, Leicester, Carlisle, Gateshead, Leeds, King's Lynn, Taunton, Barnstaple, Devon and Cornwall, Plymouth, Bristol, Dorcester, Sherborne, Poole, Salisbury, Coventry, Colchester, The Channel Islands, Colonial marks -- Their marks illustrated -- Tables of unascribed marks found on plate of English manufacture unaccompanied by any known town mark -- Ch. 19. The Scottish goldsmiths and their marks -- The goldsmiths of Edinburgh from the 15th century onwards -- The status of their incorporation -- Their marks described -- Tables of marks on Edinburgh plate arranged in cycles from 1552 to 1921 -- List of names of deacons of the incorporation of Edinburgh goldsmiths from 1525 to 1681 -- List of names of other Edinburgh goldsmiths from 1525 to 1798, and (in the tables of marks) to 1903 -- The goldsmiths of Canongate (Edinburgh) and their marks -- Ch. 20. The Glasgow goldsmiths -- Their history -- Their marks described -- Tables of marks on Glasgow plate arranged in cycles from 1681 to 1921 -- Names of Glasgow goldsmiths from 1616 to 1903 arranged chronologically -- Ch. 21. Scottish provincial goldsmiths of the minor guilds -- Aberdeen (old and new), Arbroath, Ayr, Banff, Dundee, Elgin, Greenock, Inverness, Montrose, Perth, St. Andrews, Stirling, Wick, Tain -- Their marks illustrated -- Tables of unascribed marks found on plate believed to be of Scottish manufacture, but unaccompanied by any known town marl -- Ch. 22. The Irish goldsmiths and their marks -- The goldsmiths of Dublin -- Incorporated prior to 1555 -- Subject to the jurisdiction of the Dublin City Corporation, 1555-1637 -- Marks prescribed for plate from 1605 to 1637, the figures of a lion, a harp, and a castle, in addition to the maker's mark, but no known example -- Incorporated by charter of King Carles I., in 1637 -- The charter set forth in full -- Records of the Dublin Goldsmiths' Company -- Ch. 23. The Dublin Goldsmiths' marks -- The harp crowned and the maker's mark prescribed by the charter of 1637 -- A date-letter used from 1638 -- The Hibernia mark, its adoption 1730-1 -- The marks explained in detail -- Errors of long standing corrected -- The omission of the date-letter from much plate of the reign on George III -- Forgery of marks in this reign -- The marks on wrought gold described -- The collocation of marks explained -- Tables of marks on Dublin plate arranged in cycles from 1638 to 1921 -- Supplementary list of marks of goldsmiths -- Makers' marks reproduced from impressions struck in metal plates preserved at the assay office Ch. 24. Chronological list of names of Dublin goldsmiths -- Names transcribed from Dublin records, A.D. 1200 to A.D. 1630 -- Masters and Wardens of Dubin Goldsmiths' Company from 1637 to 1905 -- Assay-masters from 1638 to 1905 -- Freemen of the company from 1637 to 1847 -- Enrolments of apprentices to Dublin goldsmiths from 1632 to 1823 -- List of quarter brothers and journeymen who worked in Dublin from 1661 to 1784 -- Names of Dublin goldsmiths registered in the company's books from 1784 to 1883 -- Names of goldsmiths found in Dublin directories from 1760 to 1808 -- List of goldsmiths for whom plate was assayed in Dublin from 1638 to 1811 -- Entries referring to assays and "touch" money, 1694 to 1826 -- Names of Irish provincial goldsmiths registered in the company's books from 1784 to 1827 -- Ch. 25. The Irish provincial goldsmiths and their marks -- Prehistoric and early-Christian goldsmiths -- The goldsmiths of Cork -- Their incorporation with members of other trades -- Celebrated Cork goldsmiths and examples of their work described -- The Cork goldsmiths' marks descibed -- Tables of marks on Cork plate arranged in cycles from about 1662 to 1840 -- Chronological list of Cork goldsmiths from 1601 to 1850 -- The goldsmiths Youghal, Galway and Limerick ; their names and marks arranged chronologically -- Goldsmiths of Kinsale, Belfast and other Irish provincial towns -- New Geneva (co. Waterford) and its immigrant goldsmiths -- Table of unascribed Irish provincials marks -- Unascribed marks which cannot be allocated definitely to an English Scottish, or irish place of origin -- Addenda [London marks ; York marks ; Chester marks]. / Plate -- Great Britain -- History. Goldwork -- Great Britain. Silverwork -- Great Britain. Hallmarks. Vaisselle plate -- Grande-Bretagne -- Histoire. 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