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The Directory of Gold & Silversmiths: Jewellers & Allied Trader 1838-1914 from the London Assay Office Registers. 2 Vols
by Culme, John
- Used
- Hardcover
- Condition
- Fine.
- ISBN 10
- 0907462464
- ISBN 13
- 9780907462460
- Seller
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Santa Monica, California, United States
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About This Item
Woodbridge, Suffolk: Antique Collector's Club, 2000. Reprint. Hardcover. Fine.. Quarto. xlvi, 504, viii, 391 (1)pp. Original illustrated dustjackets, black lettering on spine, over gray cloth with gilt lettering on covers and spines. Gray endpapers. "The Directory covers the period when Great Britain was the foremost industrial country of the world. London, as a flourishing port, the capital city of a great empire, attracted manufacturing gold and silversmiths, retailers and allied traders from all over the country to register their marks at its assay office, Goldsmiths' Hall. John Culme of Sotheby's was given access to the Registers at Goldsmiths' Hall and from his twelve years of intensive research of these and other records of the period, the biographies which make up Volume I have been compiled." (Publisher). John Culme's introduction is illustrated with b/w photographs of places and objects pertinent to his. The biographies introduced in Volume I are complimented by a complete list of marks of respective Gold & Silversmiths' in Volume II. Dustjackets with minor wear, binding and interior in fine condition.
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- Bookseller
- Eric Chaim Kline - Bookseller
(US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 44305
- Title
- The Directory of Gold & Silversmiths: Jewellers & Allied Trader 1838-1914 from the London Assay Office Registers. 2 Vols
- Author
- Culme, John
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Fine.
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- Reprint
- ISBN 10
- 0907462464
- ISBN 13
- 9780907462460
- Publisher
- Antique Collector's Club
- Place of Publication
- Woodbridge, Suffolk
- Date Published
- 2000
- Keywords
- b/w photography, goldsmith marks, silversmith marks, British goldsmiths, British Silversmiths
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About the Seller
Eric Chaim Kline - Bookseller
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Santa Monica, California
About Eric Chaim Kline - Bookseller
We offer a broad selection of rare, out-of-print and antiquarian books with an emphasis on photography, architecture, art, Judaica, Bibles, Weimar Germany and the Third Reich, modernism, Olympic Games, erotica and foreign-language works, especially German, Hebrew, Polish and Yiddish. We also provide appraisal, auction, consulting and rental services.
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- Cloth
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