Early Connecticut Silver, 1700-1840

Book Description

Middletown, Connecticut: Wesleyan University Press, 1970 First edition. Quarto. 288pp. Biblipography, index. Illustrated with black & white photographs throughout. A very fine copy in very lightly worn, price-clipped dust jacket. A catalog of the most significant pieces of silver hollowware made by Connecticut silversmiths between the years 1700 and 1840. Also illustrated representative flatware and artistically interesting less common pieces such as swords and Masonic jewels. With an annotated index of silversmiths known to have worked in Connecticut and an index of more than 400 of the marks used by these men. .

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