Museum of antiquity; a description of ancient life: the employments, amusements, customs and habits, the cities, places, monuments and tombs, the literature and fine arts of 3,000 years ago (1882)
Yaggy, Levi W · Chicago, Western Publishing House; New York, Standard Publishing House; [etc.,etc.] · leaf 352
arge manufactories of silver utensils were II SILVER VESSELS. 339 started, in which each part of the work was assigned to a specialartificer; here the orders of the silver-merchants were executed.Amongst the special workmen of these manufactories werethe modelers, founders, turners or polishers,… … FOUND AT 1II1,DE8HEIM. silver vessels found near the old Falerii) have tracelessly disap-peared. Amongst the discoveries which happily have escapedthe hands of the melter, we mention the treasure of more thanone hundred silver vessels, weighing together about 50 pounds,found by Berney in Normandy…
Haines, Thomas L · Civilization · Classical antiquities
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