English Silver Hallmarks (Dealer Guides): Including the Marks of Origin on Scottish & Irish Silver Plate, Gold, Platinum & Sheffield Plate: With 300 ... Hall-Marks and Makers' Marks from Circa 1554 - Softcover

Judith Banister

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0572029993 ISBN 13: 9780572029999

Publisher: W Foulsham & Co Ltd, 1999

Synopsis

You don t have to know anything about hallmarks to use this book, it s been designed to be a visual index. The absolutely unique feature of this book is that it will indentify the first mark you need The City Mark. Illustrated city marks are all on the fore edge of its pages. So you just flick the pages to match a mark on your silver to its illustration in the book... from there its easy. The Jackson book uses a design where The City you need is presented as a Page Heading. So to use Jackson s book, you have first to know that the Anchor mark represents Birmingham or the Lion Head represents London etc. In Jackson, you need to know the City Name before you can look up its hallmarks system to date your silver.

About this title

Synopsis

Michael Hogben The Antiques Doctor, showed the cover to his huge television audience on the "Terry & Gabby show" and said, "This is the Bible for antique silver dealers. If you are going to look for silver to buy, you must get a copy of this book." The secret of the great success of this book lies in the design and presentation of its marks. By presenting them down the fore-edge of the pages, it enables collectors to flip through and identify a mark of origin without knowing anything about silver marking. No other book does this. Simple really, but absolutely essential for beginners and very, very useful for dealers!

Edition details

• Publisher: W Foulsham & Co Ltd
• Publication date: 1999
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0572029993
• ISBN 13: 9780572029999
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 118
• Editor: Judith Banister